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mgillett54··on Long Range Wi-Fi – Pushing 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi to the limits (2019)
Depends on the WiFi, you can easily get 1Gbps on WiFi 7 as long as your modem + access point have the bandwidth
mgillett54··on Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom
> less than 1% of Coinbase monthly transacting users

Unclear if users whose data was stolen, but did NOT transact in the last month are included in this statistic. Feels like a very intentional phrasing on their part

https://www.coinbase.com/en-gb/blog/protecting-our-customers...

mgillett54··on Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore
FTA

> Wired beat me to the punch of reporting that a top DOGE employee, 25 year old former SpaceX employee Marko Elez, has not only read but write access to BFS servers.

mgillett54··on I recreated Shazam’s algorithm with Go
You only get a one year grace period after first public discloser to file for a patent in the US. So if the dates in this scenario are: - paper in 2003 - patent 2004-10-21

Only if the paper was released between 2003-10-22 and 2003-12-31 would it meet the one year grace period requirement.

Looks like it’s not relevant in this case since they got a provisional patent in 2002, but that’s likely what the above was referring to as “a point against that patent”.

mgillett54··on Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for expansion beyond S.F
The cars already need to go out of services to recharge, they can just clean the cars while charging
mgillett54··on Companies Say They're Using Microphone Audio to Target Ads [audio] (2023)
I wonder if the sequence of online events that lead you to “organically” come up with pantyliner was also enough for the ad algorithms to do the same.

Maybe subconsciously in videos or other browsing activity pantyliner adjacent things were discussed.

Not saying companies aren’t using audio for ads, but it just feels like there would be more leaks from the big COs if it were ubiquitous in everyday life

mgillett54··on Ask HN: Why did LinkedIn become what it is today?
Employee resource group, basically a group of employees that have some shared interest or background
mgillett54··on Ask HN: Git hosting sites that do not require 2FA?
Some platforms let passkeys count as password+2FA which could be an option if you use a password manager that supports it.

I use passkeys in 1Password for GitHub access

mgillett54··on HubSpot Acquires Clearbit
I think the idea is that you can generate the MD5 hash of all, say 8 letter, @gmail.com addresses trivially and since the email hashes used for targeting don’t have a salt, it’s a one time “expense” to build the reverse lookup table
mgillett54··on Godaddy just stole my domain
Yes

> Cloudflare Registrar will only ever charge you what we pay to the registry for your domain. No markup and no surprise fees.

https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/

mgillett54··on A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call
It depends a lot on your usage pattern, but we are switching to Granfana cloud from Datadog and are looking at about 1/3 the cost per year. This is using logs, metrics, and traces with OpenTelemetry instrumentation.

The Grafana pricing is more cleanly volume based that is disconnected from number of “hosts” which is where datadog really squeezes you in a kubernetes setup with many pods.

mgillett54··on Tell HN: Recovering 2FA accounts is difficult if your phone is stolen
I do the same thing with 1Password. I also created a 1Password label/ tag “sms_2fa” that I throw on all the accounts that required it.

Helps keep track of potential weak spots and it’s easy to go through once a year and see if things have improved

mgillett54··on An emerging black market offers Amazon sellers ways to cheat the marketplace
Wow this is really sleazy.

This seems like something that Amazon could solve by having humans in the loop, but they probably have too much inventory.