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asynchronous··on Starlink direct-to-cell enabled for hurricane helene emergency messaging
I agree with the sentiment but LEO constellations like Starlink can and have been disrupted, via sub-orbital jamming. Not to mention that in actual large conflict surface to LEO missiles will simply destroy large amounts of satellite constellations.
asynchronous··on We're excited about our new roundabout
At first glance I’m confused how to navigate it- a flowchart would be nice. Or just a video of traffic using it.
asynchronous··on Starlink offering free internet access for 30 days for Hurricane Helene victims
Surprised by this, I think it has the easiest setup experience I’ve had in years for ISP tech. What conditions were you operating in?
asynchronous··on How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023)
We can also cache some of the dynamic JavaScript, depending on the scenario but your point stands.
asynchronous··on Israel concealed explosives inside batteries of pagers, Lebanese officials say
To be fair, the supply chain angle was probably the main point of the attack- it’s a psychological flex in the highest order, you can’t even trust your equipment anymore.
asynchronous··on GM electric vehicles can now access Tesla Superchargers
Most of the comments here seem to be suffering from amnesia as to why Tesla is even opening their charging network- remember, the Feds literally begged them to and paid them money to do so.

As a Tesla owner, I see this as a straight up loss in nearly every category. I never have used a third party charger, so even if those chargers move to the NACS standard it won’t improve my life in any way.

I’ve already had to deal with Rivian or Ford owners taking up several stalls at the Superchargers (because they weren’t designed to fit correctly, and Rivian drivers are incompetent) and taking over twice as long to charge as Teslas are able to.

asynchronous··on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
Hilarious to watch Zoom return to office in the last two years.
asynchronous··on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
You have it backwards- it hadn’t made sense from the invention of the internet until 2020. I point to “teleworking” being a legitimate thing even before the internet was mainstream as evidence that the traditional office is a relic from the 40s and 50s typewriter factories.
asynchronous··on Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat
It’s a dumb question simply because we know most North Korean cyber agents are working abroad- they literally live in China or somewhere else and setup infrastructure elsewhere to remote into.
asynchronous··on Ask HN: If LLMs are so useful, why haven't we seen any spike in productivity?
GPT-4o got a whole lot closer to realism though- I’d say we’re better than Skyrim’s pre recorded speech system at this point.
asynchronous··on The Legend of Holy Sword: An Immersive Experience for Concentration Enhancement
Maybe I’m not seeing it but would be nice to have some metrics in this study to point to- maybe a control game which changes a fundamental part of the concentration mechanic.
asynchronous··on Void captures over a million Android TV boxes
Tesla is amazingly good at software development practices. It’s the new Fords that are bricking themselves via updates, not Teslas.
asynchronous··on My Homelab Setup
I can think of several enterprise brands that are also all three of those.
asynchronous··on My Homelab Setup
I’d say Ubiquiti is still the best pro-sumer for home networking. They’re expensive, but they really do have a quality and ease of integration/setup/use that just isn’t matched, even when you get to enterprise level (go setup a Cisco without your CCNA and then come tell me about how great it is).
asynchronous··on Show HN: We built a FOSS documentation CMS with a pretty GUI
Using Rust for markdown parsing seems like the epitome of driving a racecar to the grocery store- I’m curious if you have any metrics as to how much build time was reduced with that over using something like Node. I’d guess it’s <10ms.
asynchronous··on Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
I don’t think so- I believe it just checks the outstanding warrant/no fly list and that’s all, but I could be wrong.
asynchronous··on Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
Pretty much, although most TsA check lines no longer require even a boarding pass- so in theory you could pack a bomb with you then bypass all the security theater with this.
asynchronous··on Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic human rights
Actually he did, once the NSA prevented him from fleeing to where he was hoping to have political asylum and trapped him in Russia.
asynchronous··on We found North Korean engineers in our application pile
I’m going to go back and count how many times it’s mentioned in this fluff piece.
asynchronous··on We found North Korean engineers in our application pile
We don’t have any evidence except bogus applicants- this is just speculation at best. Sad it hit front of HN though.
asynchronous··on We found North Korean engineers in our application pile
Oddly enough this article doesn’t actually describe what they did with the information or applicants besides sharing - with how much emphasis they were placing on their _former CIA founders_ I figured they’d try and get some of them to defect. Disappointing read.
asynchronous··on Show HN: SplitScreen – Create dual-video content for TikTok, YouTube, Reels
It’s because there’s a subset of people with a boiled enough attention span that they need something visual to watch (like a speedrun challenge) while listening to a podcast clip. 8 seconds is apparently the upper limit of the attention span now.
asynchronous··on Modern Wardriving (2023)
Back in the day it was a way to capture a lot of handshakes from a lot of different WiFi networks, then offline and back home crack the passwords and get a growing list of networks you could get into.

But all that to say that hackers don’t exactly need a reason to have a hobby.

asynchronous··on The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud
Not to be that guy, but the DOE is arguably one of the most important federal agencies in the US, and they treat the problem with the correct amount of focus, research and dedication. It’s just a very hard problem. The grid is no less secure or less resilient than it was 50 years ago, the main problem is that people are more dependent on it. Almost no one buys a personal generator before an outage happens anymore, despite it being one of the cheapest ways to get resiliency.
asynchronous··on Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts: Make managing your homelab a breeze
Having used this to manage my home Proxmox setup before I migrated to Unraid, the management and setup scripts are a huge help. I’d also highly recommend the LXC container scripts, they even have one for generic docker containers which lets you run nearly every service in a separate LXC.
asynchronous··on CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office
We had a choice for about half a second, and then the tech industry collapsed and all of our leverage went away again. Makes the tech union concept more attractive.
asynchronous··on CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office
Let’s face it, the office job class of workers has been stuck in almost the same work routine as 80+ years ago when we used typewriters. And EVEN THEN we still had teleworking as a concept. We’re long overdue for a legitimate overhaul of what work looks like for the typical office. Not saying jobs that require in person presence shouldn’t be compensated for that- just that we need to look at it seriously.
asynchronous··on CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office
This 100 times, especially because a large portion of HN is former FAANG. We’ve seen the secret sauce at the top, it’s not special.
asynchronous··on CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office
The amount of executives that play golf and include golf as working meetings blows this argument out of the sand trap.
asynchronous··on USPS text scammers duped his wife, so he hacked their operation
I think this would be a great opportunity to contract private firms and companies to do exactly this. It’s not law enforcement work, so it fits perfectly.
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