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nothasan··on FDA recalls defective iOS app that injured over 200 insulin pump users
The tech is really hit or miss sometimes. I have a pump that used to panic error out on a misused bluetooth connection, forcing you to set it up again.

Eventually the app developers fixed it but, for something that’s supposed to run 24/7/365 without fail it really rubbed me the wrong way.

On a slightly tangential note, I am interested in working on something better although not hardware inclined, so please reach out to me at my username @tutamail.com if you are interested.

nothasan··on Injection of "smart insulin" regulates blood glucose levels for one week
"Just another 5 years for a cure"
nothasan··on Ask HN: How would you re-design Hacker News?
I’d remove flagging or hiding on mobile unless you click on the post because it’s easy to accidentally do it.
nothasan··on Ask HN: What is your preferred domain registrar?
Have used both Porkbun and Infomaniak, neither with any issues.
nothasan··on Ask HN: How would you make an additional $500k in 1 year?
- Resell concert tickets and/or other sought after goods on a larger scale?

- Get a few remote jobs?

There’s plenty of inefficiencies around us, you just have to look hard enough.

nothasan··on Google removed my Yubikeys from a Google account 'just to be safe'
Yep I don’t know what’s going on here. OP posted another reply with the time they added their keys and they aren't recent.
nothasan··on Google removed my Yubikeys from a Google account 'just to be safe'
I think Google needs to add a better way to secure old / previously inactive accounts. My guess is because your account was old, and your current device, IP and overall fingerprint was different it decided you were an intruder.
nothasan··on Ledger Stax – Hardware wallet with eInk display for digital assets
Off-topic but what do you think they used here to render the UI. Qt?
nothasan··on Ask HN: Are most software practices and idioms subjective?
I thought a great talk around this area was Engineering You by Martin Thompson [1]. He used the phrase the "era of Software Alchemy."

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S4LzzuMTqjs

nothasan··on How to Bypass Cloudflare: A Comprehensive Guide
Some impressive documentation on how to get around this BM solution.
nothasan··on Cloudflare has replaced Nginx with in-house, Rust-written Pingora
Pretty sure they analyse TLS handshakes for their Bot Management product and probably other things.
nothasan··on Scraping data from an app: real world example
I have worked with the site mentioned in the article’s API previously. I am not sure why they used the overhead of a "scraping framework" when it was just JSON they needed to parse.
nothasan··on Kanye West's Stem Player – An engineering disaster
I remember downloading the stems from their API and the serial number checks were just length check of the parameter. Surprised that Donda 2 is still not available on any streaming platform.
nothasan··on Stem cells may finally offer a cure for Type 1 diabetes
Reducing the amount being injected is still having to live with it.
nothasan··on Adafruit requires 2FA to prevent bots buying out Raspberry Pi
There was two stages for that sale (possession requirement + public). And someone was still able to automate and purchase 1% of the entire supply.
nothasan··on Adafruit requires 2FA to prevent bots buying out Raspberry Pi
Pretty easy to automate this
nothasan··on How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API
If they used cronet, they could get past these checks.
nothasan··on Ask HN: How to start learning embedded systems?
RISC V is an option I guess
nothasan··on Amazon.com product pages are down
A CDN is a reverse proxy with the ability to cache. They are not very different.
nothasan··on Amazon.com product pages are down
Pretty sure they use CloudFront
nothasan··on Hacking Bitcoin wallets with quantum computers could happen
It’s not just cybercriminals who want to MITM. There are nation states who have been tapping fiber optic cables for a long time.
nothasan··on Postmates added $70M in revenue and saved $3M in network fees with Stripe
It might be Adyen based off this press release.

https://www.adyen.com/press-and-media/2019/postmates-selects...

nothasan··on Sneakerheads have turned Jordans and Yeezys into an asset class
They were acquired by VF Corporation last year.

https://www.vfc.com/investors/news-events-presentations/pres...

nothasan··on Amazon insiders sound alarm over security
And how does this solve the problem of information security?
nothasan··on Mold: A Modern Linker
Would emulsifier roll off the tongue better?
nothasan··on Common security issues with crypto websites and APIs
Couldn’t you also avoid rate-limits and such with setting your own X-Forwarded-For header? I guess the site operator should have been a bit more vigilant and used the Cf-Connecting-IP header in that specific case.
nothasan··on Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching its URL with a HTTP GET
I don’t think this would really count as CLI, you still load up a full browser.
nothasan··on Java is better than C++ for high speed trading systems
Not sure whether this counts but someone did post their experiences of it on reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/bhtuah/production_dep...

nothasan··on Grinch Bots Will Steal the Best Deals This Holiday Season
An artist might visit a single city once every few years vs the previous generation of game consoles (Playstation + Xbox) came out in late 2013 so I don’t get your point.
nothasan··on Grinch Bots Will Steal the Best Deals This Holiday Season
"no matter what" as in of course there will be limitations to how much a manufacturer can output but there will always be some supply further down the line.
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