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arlattimore··on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
We have static software analysis tools today, they help find a lot of issues but are not infallible. Given how sophisticated new AI coding platforms are, I imagine in the near-term, we'll have radically more advanced code analysis tools that will close the majority of the security issues that slip past current generation static analysis tools. Will there be zero bugs, likely no but the attack surface is going to get smaller and smaller.
arlattimore··on IFTTT Is Now IFTTT.ai
Seems like this must still be in progress, their home page redirects to the new .ai domain but there are still a lot of pages that load on their existing .com domain.
arlattimore··on Amazon to buy satellite firm Globalstar in $11.57B deal
I imagine it won't be long before we'll see the next gen from Starlink:

Starlink Standard (fixed) Starlink Mini (portable) Starlink Pocket (ultra-portable)

arlattimore··on US agency approves Amazon Leo’s $11.5B acquisition of Globalstar
Starlink have over 11,000 satellites in orbit.

Globalstar have 24 satellites in orbit (at least according to Google).

How does this acquisition by Amazon meaningfully expand Leo to compete against Starlink?

arlattimore··on Show HN: One click flight booking in Claude
Who processes the booking & payment, an aggregator like Expedia or the airlines direct?
arlattimore··on A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting
Good call!

It looks like HR8799 that the animation is based on is about 1.5x the radius of the sun.

That being said, my silly point still holds - there are stars that are truly massive. Stephenson 2-18 is approximately the size I mentioned, which is genuinely impossible to comprehend.

arlattimore··on A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting
Space and the enormity of it breaks your mind when you start thinking about it.

The star in the middle of the animation, is approximately 20AU (Astronomical Units) in size looking at the scale line. 20AU is approximately 1.8b miles/3b kilometres or approximately the distance from the Sun to Uranus.

If Google's correct, if everyone on Earth lived on that star - each and every one of us could have a backyard larger than the surface area of Earth ;p

arlattimore··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
It'd be incredible to have an SR-71 flying again, just simply __because__!
arlattimore··on The 'Colossal Headache' of Building a Made-in-America Monopoly Game
Check out Smarter Every Day YouTube for the Smarter Scrubber series about building a BBQ grill scrubber exclusively in the USA. It’s a great series, but it shouldn’t be that hard.

https://youtu.be/3ZTGwcHQfLY?is=hWkgI4ka_FaSudo6

arlattimore··on OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says
Then the government should sue that company as well.

My point isn't that they are targeting OpenAI, they should pursue Anthropic, Alibaba, DeepSeek, or any other company that has poor infrastructure and allows their systems to hack anything. It is a crime, it should be treated accordingly and not brushed over or diminished because it is AI.

arlattimore··on OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says
The Australian Government needs to sue OpenAI to make a point.

At this point, it feels like it is out of control and it is just a matter of time before something much more significant happens. Imagine they hack into FAA to disrupt air travel, utility companies for water/gas, a nuclear power station (ala Stuxnet), financial/banking systems, stock exchanges, etc?

arlattimore··on A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos
How companies pay such low bounties for such a find is mind blowing to me.
arlattimore··on Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust
The Berm Peak YouTube channel did a similar reverse engineering of a retro Tron style e-bike. It didn't require going to new firmware but it is a good video as well about how he could accomplish it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPrtVGimBYs.
arlattimore··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
It's a thing for sure, maybe just not screamed about. If you run in a shoe that is 10mm+ and then go to a 0mm like an Altra - it is wild how different it feels.
arlattimore··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
The comments in the article about 'performance' are very real. When Nike was still in retail stores, 9/10 shoes were fashion sneakers and had nothing to do with athletics/running/performance.

By comparison, Hoka is positioned as a runners shoe. They have a variety of models based on the type of running you need (daily, long run, race), provide road/trail variants (their Speedgoat is amazing trail shoe), have large toe boxes to give your forefoot/toes the space needed to spread out on impact, also room to grow from swelling.

I'm sure Nike don't want to walk back from their fashionista offerings, but there are lessons in here for sure - maybe they need sub-branding like Nike Road, Nike Trail, Nike Casual or Nike Performance and Nike Casual.

arlattimore··on NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami
Captain Steeeve’s latest video on this tragedy is shocking, complete disregard for the aviation rules. I think he cited 11 separate instances of __mandatory__ go around, the first of which was before they were anywhere near the runway at 1000ft elevation.
arlattimore··on There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis
The sitemap being hosted at /images/sitemaps/index.xml is a problem. Technically, that sitemap can only include URLs beginning with /images/sitemaps/. They should move that file to the root, like /sitemap_index.xml and reference /sitemap-1.xml, /sitemap-2.xml etc.
arlattimore··on Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)
Veritasium put out a video recently about the incredible engineering in modern turbo fan jet engines, recommended watch if this thread has your interest :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxVdC7pBQM

arlattimore··on Show HN: Skatanica – Browse and share skate clips by location
This is wicked. Reminds me of All Trails for hiking, Trailforks for MTB or Strava/Garmin activity map.
arlattimore··on Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
For reference, Semrush shows some statistics on these domains & how much traffic they are estimated to be receiving from organic search:

- wifitalents.com, peaked 15 July with 18k visits & declining

- worldmetrics.org, peaked 27 Jul with 8k visits & declining

- gitnux.org, peaked 20 Aug with 8k visits & declining

arlattimore··on Creepy Crawlies
I'm not suggesting 'login' because facebook/twitter/etc, just as a mechanism to make the bot problem go away. They clearly want it to stop, they tried obvious methods but the AI platforms are circumventing it (deliberately) which is poor form.
arlattimore··on Creepy Crawlies
In the case of kernel.org, why not make the unauthenticated version return only the latest kernel repo with no history (tiny number of URLs relatively speaking). If you want full kernel.org features, login.
arlattimore··on Show HN: I read 648 banks' exchange boards daily to show what they charge
Is there a true cost to the banks to move money around the world or is it nominal and just another opportunity for them to gouge consumers?
arlattimore··on Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager
I like that this could be self hosted. I don't have anything against the big password managers (I use and pay for one), but they are a massive target for hackers for obvious reasons. If everyone could self host their own vault on a personal domain, the reward for hackers is much more difficult to get access to.
arlattimore··on GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?
I literally chuckled out loud when I saw the headline :D
arlattimore··on Supersonic Trebuchet [video]
Tom Stanton has a raft of cool videos, I like the engineering iterations he often goes through to find a working prototype.
arlattimore··on The Amazon tax
Similarly, this is also why Google stopped enforcing trademarks years ago. It allows more people to bid on terms, increases competition, increases CPCs & of course pads their bottom line.
arlattimore··on Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
BMI isn’t a good metric, this has been known for a long time.

For example, I’m 45yo/178cm/93kg and am obese by BMI measurement. However, my body fat is 20% (Dexa), VO2 of 50 (lab) & have the aerobic fitness to run a half marathon after work and not care.

I’m not surprised that you need other metrics like hip/waist ratio, measured body fat, visceral fat, etc to better understand the composition of someone’s body and how it might relate to health outcomes like heart disease.

arlattimore··on OpenAI's new device will be hockey puck-sized and cost over $300
Sadly, zero interest on my part.

If I need information, it is already within easy reach:

"Hey (Google|Siri), <question>?" or Just get my phone out and use website/app of your choice.

arlattimore··on Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform
Reminds me of tinyprojects.dev Paper Website project from 2021

https://paperwebsite.com/

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