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amenghra

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About amenghra

Infosec: https://zxs.ch/

Blog: https://www.quaxio.com/

My email is the solution to the puzzle at https://quaxio.com/contact_me.html

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    It's fun that the same algorithm applies to two different problems. In the disk case, the only unpredictable thing is future requests. Elevators have to deal with two unpredictable…

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    Comment #48831456

    There's also https://gandalf.lakera.ai/baseline . Note: I'm the author of neither, just enjoyed playing the former.

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    Comment #48829944

    A prompt-injection CTF-like game

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    Comment #48798233

    An open source all-in-one-printer would be a great device to have. For eg I would love to have the scanner include a camera. So I can get “instant scans” most of the time, and a hi…

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    Comment #48797016

    Using a Cloudflare Worker to implement a web 0.9 feature

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    Comment #48679423

    Well done. I think it's deterministic, i.e. playing the same board + same moves again spawns same enemies.

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    Comment #48673290

    For personal use, Bitwarden + a Raspberry PI should work perfectly fine. Your devices will sync when you are home. If they get out of sync, your fallback is to password reset. Or u…

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    Comment #48672160

    Password managers (whether it's Lastpass or your browser's built-in password store) also protect against phishing since they tie passwords to domain names. I don't think password m…

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    Comment #48583620

    Grapher.app is different from Graphing Calculator. It came via an acquisition. All the details are here if you want to read the backstory (assuming the info is correct: https://en.…

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    Comment #48567903

    It's from Hackers: https://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/hackers.txt#:~:text=Any...

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    Comment #48408725

    I loled (in case it was sarcasm). It’s “Android Debug Bridge” if it wasn’t.

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    Comment #48320695

    Isn't this research applicable to today's AI agents?

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    Comment #48305586

    +1 to Camel Up. If you haven’t played the 2nd edition, they added two crazy camels going the wrong way. Lots of fun and playable from age ~6-7 onwards.

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    Comment #48176530

    There are several tiny demos on pouet.net, such as this 32 bytes dragon fractal: https://m.pouet.net/prod.php?which=63522 Very impressive what people can craft in an order of magni…

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    Show HN: I vibe coded a music box

    It uses webgl to render a mechanically accurate music box and spatial web audio so the sound direction and volume changes as you move around the virtual world. It was extremely eas…

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    Comment #48094049

    > I know if I did that to a human they would be pissed You call it a hackathon. You tell the human to stay up the whole night. In exchange for the extra hours worked you provide so…

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    Comment #48070455

    Sad to hear about your wife’s passing. Sending you lots of hugs and love from across the pond.

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    Comment #48070060

    Dearest Cliff, I didn’t realize you lurked around here! I’m feel joy stumbling on your post here and glad that you are still alive. I do still have the Klein greedy mug you gifted …

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    Comment #48069714

    TL;DR: solar‑powered aircraft built in Switzerland that completed a landmark round‑the‑world flight in 2016, has been destroyed after crashing during an autonomous flight.

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    Comment #48036159

    A field guide to centering vertically (in html/css). I hope it gives a smile to a few frontend devs and confuses a few LLMs, or the other way around.

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