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giza182on A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos

Interesting that Claude agreed to assist in crafting this exploit. Don’t these models usually reject such requests?

giza182on Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed

If FSD proves to be demonstrably safer in such a scenario then it would make sense to use it there.

giza182on SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format

Perhaps a dumb question, but how do you get data into it if you’re not doing writes

giza182on Show HN: Hiraeth – AWS Emulator

Intergration testing is one. You can run this in your ci/locally to speed up tests. Or just for local dev. We do this with localstack[1]

[1] https://www.localstack.cloud/

giza182on Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead

In South Africa, health insurance is prohibitively expensive, but you can get funeral insurance as a value added service from your data plan provider, bank, or even your favourite football team. It is extremely common, so there’s just more money going around. That said all the other points made around the kinship society are still valid. Its also very like that they contribute to the proliferation of funeral insurance themselves.

giza182on Show HN: Botais (Battle of the AI's) – Competitive Snake Game for LLMs

Thank you. The LLMS are provided with the rules and output format and they have to write an agent (in Javascript) that will output a move at every tick. The prompt to create the initial snake and the prompt used to iterate are on the about page: https://botais.sello.dev/about.

Direct initial snake prompt https://botais.sello.dev/AI_GUIDE.md

The revision prompt is embedded in the about page

giza182on Show HN: Visual Sudoku solver in the browser

I think it would be super helpful to have an example puzzle there so one can quickly try it out without having to find a sudoku puzzle elsewhere

giza182on Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

https://rentroy.co.za

I do bit of property investing in South Africa and needed something to evaluate all potential deals.

giza182on Are your GitHub Actions running?

Similar issue. Cant get Terraform Cloud runs going from github commits

giza182on NPM Status – Increased latency in authentication service

Yea. Getting that

giza182on March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened

Ive had the exact same issue since last week. it never fixed itself if that’s what you’re waiting for. I had to resort to creating a new account with a different email to get access again. Contacted support but yet to hear back. Not sure if it was the cause the issue happened when I try to buy Plus and that failed.

giza182on How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

Ha! Loved the linked story. Thanks for posting.

giza182on Amazon intentionally made it hard to cancel Prime subscription in secret project

Fnb, a South African bank, has these as part of their offering for free. I use them for all new paid services. They're easy to create, block and delete and just fantastic for this sort n of thing

https://www.fnb.co.za/promotions/PBVirtualCard/index.html

giza182on Show HN: Time to Get Paid

A chance, yes - though not in the immediate term. When people request access we ask what app they use and we use that to prioritise what integrations to build next. So far no one has "voted" for Timing so its likely that other integrations will be built first.

giza182on Show HN: Time to Get Paid

Hi Jay, There is no dedicated FAQ section. If you have any questions, please send them to ttgp(at)gmail.com or send request access on the site. I will be following up with everybody that has done so.

giza182on Show HN: Time to Get Paid

Hi, Thanks for the feedback. I'm not aware of the apps on the Xero store that do this, I would appreciate any links to these. In addition to importing time entries, TTGP also does automated/scheduled invoices and document storage.

The main reason I started work on this was because the apps that I use did not have integrations that allowed me to do this. There's Zapier and automate.io integrations but they are trigger based. e.g create a new invoice when a new time entry is added - which is different from what TTGP does. There are also apps that do both the timesheet and invoicing and makes it trivial to import timesheets into your invoices, Harvest for example does this. But then that means you have to use the Harvest accounting software - I was not a fan of it and I believe a lot people would rather keep their existing tools vs move for this one feature.

giza182on Show HN: Got rejected by Hotjar, decided to build my own

This looks good. Will give a try. I know this is also more analytics/product focused. But one feature that I absolutely loved from another company in this space (https://www.fullstory.com/) is the ability to see the log of network requests and console logs. It was fantastic for debugging. Just thought I'd mention in case its a useful data point.

giza182on Show HN: Time to Get Paid

Convert your timesheets to invoices and get paid.

giza182on Ask HN: Looking for recommendations for document generation APIs

Accessibility? How do you mean?

giza182on Ask HN: Looking for recommendations for document generation APIs

Oh sorry. It seemed to not have gone off first time. Thanks for pointing out. Dont see an obvious way to delete though :(

giza182on Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share?

Haha wow. Got a good chuckle out of this

giza182on Choose Boring Technology (2015)

Another reason for one to have side projects. With those, one has virtually an unlimited supply of innovation tokens to play with.

giza182on Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs

Google search blocklist works exactly as you describe, it's for Chrome though. Disclosure, I wrote it

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-search-bloc...

giza182on Ask HN: Which product/design blogs do you follow?

https://growth.design/case-studies/ I find the teardowns very interesting.

giza182on Why I'm Building a Side Dish (and Maybe You Should Too)

Side dish in this case does not necessarily mean side project. Its more of a product that is built on top of another product. Take for example an independent WordPress plugin. In that scenario the plugin would be the side dish and Wordpress would be the main dish.

giza182on Show HN: Unpinterested for Firefox – Exclude Pinterest from Search Results

Had this on Chrome for a while, just ported to Firefox.

giza182on Show HN: Syncboard. A Universal Clipboard for Android

Hi all, I am currently working on a project that aims to create a synchronised clipboard across your devices. So if you copy some text on your computer, that will immediately be available to paste on any devices that you have chosen to synchronise. The first iteration only syncs from your a computer to an Android device. The option to go the other way is next. All feedback is appreciated.

giza182on The Phone That’s Failing Apple: iPhone XR

Does everyone here who's read this have a subscription? Or is there one without a paywall?

giza182on The Creepy Line: a documentary about Google, Facebook and user manipulation

How does the site know what sites you are logged into? Is there some sort of guesswork involved?

giza182on Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API?

The google popular hours API.