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IntToDoubleon Show HN: Tako, a Knowledge Search API

Rate-limited Playground Only key? Lock to requests for said key to be only permitted from the exact referrer? Give me one free and then auth?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I just want to try before I buy, sir.

IntToDoubleon Show HN: Tako, a Knowledge Search API

The first rule of Show HN is, "don't give me a playground where it looks like I can push the button and then force me to auth when I actually do click the button, expecting magic on the other side."

The second rule of Show HN is, "YOU DO NOT FORCE USERS TO AUTHENTICATE AFTER THEY'VE CLICKED THE BUTTON."

IntToDoubleon Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks

Direct link to the retrospective:

https://securityalliance.notion.site/A-Squarespace-Retrospec...

IntToDoubleon Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

In terms of the incubator, looks like it was replaced with Mozilla Ventures:

https://builders.mozilla.community/ https://builders.mozilla.community/old/alumni.html

With respect to Kanary, I have my entire family the platform and it's drastically reduced the amount of garbage (figurative) that comes through our door. Needed help with something non-standard the CEO personally took care of things while learning more about our specific use case.

IntToDoubleon Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

Puzzling they chose to partner with Onerep when Kanary was part of Mozilla's incubator and is just a fundamentally stellar service.

IntToDoubleon Ask HN: Stories of political intrigue in large companies

The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene

48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

BigCo shenanigans will never look the same!

IntToDoubleon Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

Variables are expanded in this case so the sorting is already lost :-)

IntToDoubleon Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

Our twist on the family email is to have $VARIABLE@domain.com point to a Google Group that for the moment, only goes to the adults in the room. Makes sorting/labeling things significantly easier.

$KID1@domain.com, $PET2@domain.com, $HOUSE1@domain.com, etc.

IntToDoubleon Show HN: I automated half of my typing

Self plug but high relevancy - measuring keystrokes-per-second to convert the characters saved into actual $TIME.

Calculation for "the" from the screenshot in the repo:

9933 characters saved / 8 kps = ~20 minutes

https://www.inttodouble.com/explore/keystrokes-per-second

IntToDoubleon Camera crushes Lidar, claims startup

Cheapest being humans.

IntToDoubleon Hackers can use credit bureaus to dox nearly anyone in America

+1 for Kanary.

The amount of time/effort/rage that goes into dealing with a stolen identity makes paying for this a no-brainer.

IntToDoubleon Famous Programers with Repetitive Strain Injury (2022)

+1 on weight lifting.

Issues began when I stopped lifting. Since then, they flare/fade according to the 90 day trend line of gym attendance.

IntToDoubleon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://www.inttodouble.com/

The loose theme is intended to be how making incremental improvements in the thousands of tiny things we do each day compound to make a difference over the course of our lives.

In practice, it serves more as a publishing ground for a bunch of random things that need to be put on paper/into code.