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iwassayinbournson Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser

This is cool. Do Quake 3 next.

iwassayinbournson The session you cannot take with you

Out of interest, what models do you find work best for producing text for live presentations based on the text for a reading deck?

iwassayinbournson Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries

I can’t seem to find it on NHK World at all apart from in a video from April? Is this old news? The linked article is also very sensationalized.

Edit: linked article is also from April.

iwassayinbournson crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C

I desperately want to know more.

iwassayinbournson From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

This wouldn’t work. Apart from it being very difficult to get people to sleep deeply enough for them to dream in machines like this, the brain state is very different whilst asleep compared with awake. Also the data generated from typing would be very different than thought since it’s likely picking up on broad electrical activity in the primary motor cortex.

Source: spouse works in a sleep lab studying dreams with MRI

iwassayinbournson Show HN: I Derived a Pancake

I would love to see the gluten and dairy free pancake recipe incorporated into this one for additional customizability. For example, what if I’m gluten free but not dairy free? Or happen to only have soy milk on the day but I’ve got plenty of butter?

iwassayinbournson Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing

As a data point, when I worked in consulting 10+ years ago doing network (internet/ext), web app, mobile etc our day rate was $2k AUD flat for anything we did, and AFAIK we were at or below market cost. I know for sure that the big four charged closer to $3000 for what I understood to be a worse service (I have nothing to back that up apart from occasionally seeing awful reports). We did not an insubstantial amount of netpen at that amount. Granted, AUD isn’t USD, but I wonder what their day rate is now.

iwassayinbournson What a Hacker Stole from Me

Pentester/bug bounty hunter here. I appreciate that this is frustrating for the owner to experience, but this reads like normal internet noise to me, or at worst someone fired up burp suite and hit go on a website. Many, many commercial tools run these sorts of attacks en masse by default, some SaaS companies even do it as a product. The entire internet is being scanned constantly and many of those scanners have automated collections of attacks run against websites when discovered. I’m not say it’s right, but it is the reality we live in. I wouldn’t be taking it personally.