Doohickey-d

I always wanted to put it behind an open SSH server as a "fake" honeypot of sorts, see what attackers and script kiddies do with it. But I guess by now someone's tried that already..

Comment · 10 days ago

> For long distance heavy transport, alternative fuels or battery-electric is not feasible yet.

We have this wonderful thing called trains. Many key long distance routes in Europe are even electrified already.

Comment · 11 days ago

That's why downdetector shows a chart, which is basically a chart of how many people clicked "I'm having a problem with this service". Of course you get a small amount of people having issues, but if you suddenly see a big spike on the graph, it's a good sign that it's broken for many more people than usual.

Comment · 11 days ago

Its a great product when it works. When it doesn't, for example if they decide to freeze your money for no reason, it's not fun anymore. And there's plenty of reports of that happening to people.

Comment · 11 days ago

Instagram already does charge for outgoing links, so I would assume that they found that they can sustainably make money with it there, and that it should work on FB too.

Comment · 12 days ago

previously discussed; Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122800)

Comment · 12 days ago

I thinks what's more happening is bespoke software made by people for themselves mostly, often with a user count of 1. That's quite a huge change, for users of that software. Of course such things are not replacing existing apps.

Comment · 12 days ago

I guess, in practice this can also be likely be made to run google services, the same as they can run on custom ROMs. And it already lists Aurora store as a solution.

So it's definitely something for more tinkerer people, but still quite cool.

Comment · 13 days ago

I do wonder how long the electronics, motor and little (plastic) gears in the drill would last with this. Especially since I'd suspect that it's designed for intermittent use, where it has time to cool down between each screw / hole drilling that you'd do normally. If you drive 2 miles in one go, that'll be a lot of heat that doesn't have time go anywhere.

Somehow I'd suspect that it won't last all that long...

Comment · 13 days ago

How well does this (and similar services) deal with anti-bot protection? What happens if I attempt to retrieve a page protected by the cloudflare checkbox or by Anubis? An error, no useful content, or the actual content I want?

Comment · 15 days ago

AI is incredible at making things viable (time-wise) that weren't before.

As an example, to show off my LLM-reverse-engineered-hardware project: a user-space driver and software for an old FireWire to USB box, the manufacturer drivers for which were last updated in 2006 and don't really work anymore on modern OSes (and never worked on Mac). Firewire these days in general is also incredibly buggy (needing legacy drivers for PCIe cards, software that wasn't updated since 2006, etc).

With a modern app, even something written in a few days, is already so much more pleasant to use and less buggy, than _all_ the old options that people were using before.

The hardware is quite unique because it's the only widely sold device(-family) that had a DV (FireWire/1394) connector for connecting mid-2000s camcorders, allowing you to transfer video via USB on computers that didn't (don't) have a FireWire port. And internally it works by packing the digital DV video stream into USB, without converting it, so you get the raw, full-quality video data as it was on the tape, the same you'd get it with a "real" firewire setup.

I guess the downside is that if people find out that this old, unique hardware is useful now, it will become expensive and hard to find.

It's here in case someone ever finds it useful: https://github.com/JonasCz/MarvinCapture