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biosboiii

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    Comment #49195216

    why break RSA or AES when you can just subpoena/hack Cloudflare?

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    Comment #49140209

    >Espressif's radio firmware blobs are closed source, and must run within ESP-IDF's FreeRTOS framework. It's near impossible to reverse-engineer them (not to mention legal risks.) I…

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    Comment #48946219

    LLM-as-a-judge? Given that LLMs are trained with RL && LLM-as-a-judge, is it really cheating if real competitions use the same? Maybe the real alignment is the slop we decoded alon…

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    Comment #48474981

    There are agencies in Germany where you can buy review removals in a web shop for like 50 euros per review. You just have to link the review and they will send Google a legal docum…

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    Comment #48340134

    I guess this is a great report, but the parallax landing page shenanigans disrupt my reading flow, you cannot easily scroll back to get a overview of the key facts, so I stopped.

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    Comment #48063000

    I love GeoJSON :) You can bring any Geo/GIS from 0 to visualization by just parsing it into GeoJSON. geojson.io is a great editor/viewer by Mapbox. Also https://kepler.gl/demo is g…

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    Comment #47997612

    fyi: modern vehicles are required to have a e(mergency)Call function (UNECE UN-R 144), therefore all of these cars have a modem with a unique IMEI (that is typically bound to a VIN…

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    Comment #47996550

    after 2+ years of non-engineers vibecoding applications, show me one startup/app without devs.

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    Comment #47985691

    TIL: Generally all plastics exposed to UV start to photodegrade. If you google why old computers turn particularly yellow most sources point to bromine-based flame retardant agents…

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    Comment #47985007

    I find it interesting that TI still seems to use custom ASIC chips for their calculators. Any MCU out of their portfolio should be fully capable of driving the display, reading the…

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    Comment #47984973

    Holy slop. Not only is the README.md largely written by a LLM (:emoji: :emoji:), the repo does not contain a single folder but 25 files (.py, .csproj, .png ...) , many of them 0 by…

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    Comment #47932225

    they should finetune the LLMs with this

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    Comment #47873109

    Tor on Chromium, when? Seriously, I am saddened that Chromium dominates the browser market as much as it does, but at this point the herd-immunity of Chromium is necessary to keep …

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    Comment #46822155

    This feels a lot like X/Twitter nowadays lmao

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    Show HN: Partial content web crawling using HTTP/2 and Go

    Hi, I wrote a low-level HTTP/2 web crawler in Go, which can scrape partial content to save traffic. Tl;dr e.g. the HTML of a YouTube video contains the video description, views, li…

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    Comment #45174804

    The most interesting takeaway from this project and the Mac touchpad actually measuring it's pressure in grams[1] is how Apple seems to prioritise it's ability to deliver new featu…

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    Comment #45087122

    What is a cocaine-fueled "amusement park" to Silicon Valley techbros is another humans hell. I look forward to you guys joining it. >I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now pre…

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    Comment #45041465

    Also crashes my MacOS Sequoia 15.3.1 Preview App :) https://gist.github.com/AltayAkkus/524acec2b16d4536af0fcee2f...

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    Comment #44950040

    Great work! I was working on something similiar, using ReVanced(1) Framework, which allows you to distribute fuzzy tweaks to regular APKs with their ReVanced Manager(2) which can p…

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    Comment #44887468

    I dislike tech monopolies but Chrome leaving Google would be most terrible thing ever, security wise. Google has become the benevolent dictator of the web, if you like it or not. W…

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    Comment #44808957

    difficulty level: google search

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    Comment #44606251

    2075 HN: Ask HN: Any active Java devs here? What LLM do you use?

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    Comment #44087817

    I am sorry but this is insane cope, Amazon is still on-top everywhere, also in Europe.