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Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by bri3d »

I have been reverse engineering automotive ECUs for a while now - https://github.com/bri3d/VW_Flash . It's a nice change from my day job in enterprise engineering management, and I've met some fun people and taught several folks a lot of new concepts, which is always extremely rewarding.

My latest project has been reverse engineering the data-flash encryption in Simos18 ECUs. After some work, it oddly appears the encryption algorithm used is Mifare Hitag2. I'm hoping to be able to re-encrypt NVRAM channels soon, although the overall data flash "filesystem" / channel-system layout needs some more work before I am ready to release my findings.

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Post by CameronNemo »

Const-me wrote: post #175

I'm making a smartphone OS for my personal use. Gonna opensource under GPLv2 once ready. OS kernel is Alpine Linux from https://postmarketos.org/ The entire userland is custom: graphics is on top of drm, kms, gles2, FreeType. Audio is on top of ASIO with just a few third party libraries like soxr, fdk-aac, minimp3. IPC is mostly domain sockets, input is raw input, wifi is controlled through wpa_supplicant. Most of th…

I hope you mean LTE modem. All major carriers in the US are shutting down 2G and 3G cell towers. Calls won't work without VoLTE in the future.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by m33k44 »

throwaway34241 wrote: post #125
m33k44 wrote: post #91

Thinking of working on something related to AR/VR but the target device will be low-cost such as google cardboard.

Have you decided on a specific idea or are you interested in the space generally? I've been following the space pretty closely for few years now (tried most of the HW, doing development, etc). Right now the greatest number of users and app sales seems to be at the low-ish end but not absolute low end ($300 Quest), and I'd strongly recommend most developers wanting to jump into the space target that as a baseline. Mos…

> Have you decided on a specific idea or are you interested in the space generally?

Thinking of developing educational content and digital twin in the related domain.

> Right now the greatest number of users and app sales seems to be at the low-ish end but not absolute low end ($300 Quest)

Those would be the gamers. But I am targeting students. And not many students can afford high-end devices. I am more interested in devices such as Google Cardboard, Zapbox and AR4E. High cost of devices should not become a roadblock for educational content distribution.

> Of course I could imagine exceptions here, so apologies in advance if you have some specific application in mind where the above factors aren't important.

I am thinking of developing educational content using Space exploration as a theme. Some applications that I have in mind will require interaction and collaboration. So a set of ZapBox and CloudXR is the ideal combination. But to start with I will use Google Cardboard.

BTW, what are you working on?

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Post by pochekailov »

nicbou wrote: post #12

I run a website that shows immigrants how to settle in Berlin. These days I'm thinking of codifying more things, so that people could fill a form and get answers instead of reading a long article. For example, a simple calculator that replaces pages and pages of information. I made a German health insurance calculator last week that saves a lot of reading and gives accurate results. Aside from that, I'm building a ti…

As an immigrant who switched between several countries, I must tell that this is an amazing project.

The simplest and "obvious" guides are often the most helpful, and hard to find.

I wish every city has a similar website with the most basic instructions.

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Post by lamroger »

spike021 wrote: post #195

I got a puppy and I'm its single caregiver. I love having him around but I didn't realize it'd mean being on-call 24/7 plus the rotations on my team at work when I'm really on-call. That's made for some..interesting times. Having a furry little companion is fun, though, and I'm getting out and socializing way more than before. Overall a net positive, IMO. Just a lot of work and responsibility.

I credit my experience with shitty startup on-calls with being able to get through the first few months of getting a pupper.

Totally agree with getting out and socializing - going to the dog park after work is a treat

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Post by vuciv1 »

I've been bouldering in my local rec league and just hit my second V5 (for the non-climbers, that's a difficulty rating).

I have also been taking guitar lessons on the weekend and have gotten back into music making/music theory reading. Its really fun and enriching.

If anyone wants to check out some of my music: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/mpU7k

Or look at some of my climbs: https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdY96RcJ/

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Post by nielsole »

hihihihi1234 wrote: post #56
kennu wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a similar feeling for a long time. Today I realized that the whole Web3 movement makes much more sense than I previously thought. All the NFT and cryptocurrency stuff is just the tip of an iceberg that might result in a truly decentralized web, following up the current cloud-based centralization. So I decided to start learning more about what has been going on the past few years in that space and to start getti…

Any reading recommendations re: web3? I still don't really understand what it is but I've been meaning to do a deep dive.

When did web 3.0 stop being synonymous with semantic web? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

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Post by ekanes »

stickyricky wrote: post #118

A couple of things. All unfinished (of course). First idea, a website that combines Reddit (or HN) and Discord. The goal is to create ephemeral, real-time communities (like this thread). I find discord too exclusionary to bring strangers together. And reddit is not dynamic enough to encourage relationship formation. With this site, you post a thread, people start chatting, there's a simple interface for groups of peo…

One little vote from the internet :) would love the first idea!

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by rootsudo »

david927 wrote: post #5

Could we make this a monthly post, just like the Who's Hiring one? I miss that aspect of HN.

100% we should. Work isn't the only thing a hacker should be doing.

It can be anything, from finishing something with a minimum amount of resources, broken code that somehow works or pure exploration and guessing e.g. phreaking or just finding a random telephone number that gives you goodies.

or, most especially life itself. No point of all work if no play.

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