HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

xrayarx

4,511 karma · joined October 10, 2016

submissionscomments
xrayarx··on Toyota Engineers After Tesla Model Y Teardown: “A Work of Art”
This article lists the following article as a source:

https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/how-toyotas-new-ceo-k...

https://archive.is/cBps9

xrayarx··on Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff
Funny, he calls Musk “Phony Stark”
xrayarx··on Apple’s iPhone Passcode Problem WSJ
Where was that? Might be interesting
xrayarx··on Apple’s iPhone Passcode Problem WSJ
I'd say real MFA, so buy an iPhone and get at least to tokens for free.

Immediately deliver a software update that remedies the various steps in the attack.

The victims loose all iCloud data including all photos of sometimes ten years or more. There needs to be another layer to protect backups.

Have two pins like with the SIM cards with pin and puk. Should actually be something that apple should have thought of from the getgo.

xrayarx··on Apple’s iPhone Passcode Problem WSJ
There is a sophisticated scam targeting apple iPhone users, that starts with stealing the phone and ends with draining all financial accounts, there are hundreds of cases with damage in the five digits and apple doesn't care.

The remediations recommended are:

  - alphanumeric passcode

  - different passcodes for financial apps

  - not using the native password manager

  - not storing credentials for financial apps in any password manager

  - if you have to enter the code do not do so in public or hide it

How an alphanumeric code helps defeat this adversaries is beyond me, because the video describes the attackers recording the code from over the shoulder.

Why MFA or tokens are not recommended, I do not know.

xrayarx··on I am pretty sure it's gonna carry the same spirit as Ruby / Rails (MRSK)
This is mrsk: https://github.com/mrsked/mrsk

It is described as "Capistrano for containers"

(This is DHH/37signals so we are in the ruby world)

Mrsk is written in ruby and it is hard to type because autocorrect will change it to the name of a certain billionaire

xrayarx··on I am pretty sure it's gonna carry the same spirit as Ruby / Rails (MRSK)
The actual story is here: https://world.hey.com/dhh/introducing-mrsk-9330a267
xrayarx··on Pulsar – A Community-Led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor
Lapce, which is written in rust, is using Druid, which is discontinued.
xrayarx··on 2,290kcal/day Resting Metabolic Rate after losing 46lbs
So I read the article twice, I'm still not sure if you are on a diet, and if so which one? Maybe you can explain?
xrayarx··on Power series, power serious: Talk by Doug McIlroy, the inventor of Unix pipes
s/invetor/inventor/
xrayarx··on Moving to Norway for Work
You might want to learn a few things about Norway first [1]

You also have to deal with sunset/sunrise being different from what you are used to, except you are from Alaska or similar high latitude.

Best to travel there first or before making the jump.

[1] https://www.lifeinnorway.net/things-you-must-know-before-mov...

xrayarx··on Moving to Norway for Work
IMHO this should be "ask hn"
xrayarx··on We stand to save $7M over five years from our cloud exit
former discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34878140
xrayarx··on A Lost Hiker’s SOS Signal Sparked a Wildfire. Now He Must Pay $300k
“A machete wouldn’t hurt”, I see what you did there
xrayarx··on A Lost Hiker’s SOS Signal Sparked a Wildfire. Now He Must Pay $300k
I suspect, that you are right. Anywhere in Europe a helicopter will be with you in less than an hour, cell phone reception is pretty common in the mountains, everybody is looking after „newcomers“. Even finding a 50 mile hike would be a challenge.

In America, like you said, far more danger await the unsuspecting and distances are generally far greater.

xrayarx··on Starlink’s performance in Ukraine has ignited a new space race
https://archive.ph/EoVzL
xrayarx··on Quadruped Robot Spidar: Vectorable Rotors Air-Ground Amphibious Robot“ [pdf]
The title of the paper is:

Design, Modeling and Control of a Quadruped Robot SPIDAR: Spherically Vectorable and Distributed Rotors Assisted Air-Ground Amphibious Quadruped Robot

But that is longer than what is allowed as a story title

xrayarx··on Metal detectorist sues FBI for overnight confiscation of 7tons of Civil War gold
According to the report, the FBI is being sued over concealing a gold cache and covering it up. Very strange indeed.
xrayarx··on Iran’s Uranium Enrichment Hits 84%
https://archive.is/cIJcl
xrayarx··on The World’s Worst Boss
First sentence: That would be you.
xrayarx··on Ask HN: What is the most barebone back end solution?
You can always use google sheets, apparently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34865717
xrayarx··on Britain Wargames a Crash Far Worse Than Covid If Chip Supplies Are Shut Off
https://archive.is/QW3I9
xrayarx··on I built an app to search the APOD archive by color
For all of us not in the know: APOD=Astronomy Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

xrayarx··on Guardian staff forced to work out of former brewery after ransomware attack
https://archive.is/wyEQ7#selection-827.4-831.82
xrayarx··on Guardian staff forced to work out of former brewery after ransomware attack
Staff is forced to work out of a former brewery after the ransomware attack.

The King's Cross headquarters still remain shuttered following the attack in December.

xrayarx··on The Most Useful Command Line Tools (2023 Edition)
tl;dr:

  - zsh+ohmyzsh

  - fdfind      github.com/sharkdp/fd

  - duf         github.com/muesli/duf    "better df"

  - dust        github.com/bootandy/dust "more intuitive du"

  - tldr        github.com/tldr-pages/tldr-python-client  tldr client in python

  - ripgrep     github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
This constitutes the "great" tools, there are more that are "good"
xrayarx··on Rewriting our app with 100k+ users in Svelte
Javascript Frontend was rewritten for speed by using svelte framework instead of react framework.

Next.js was also evaluated.

xrayarx··on A Threefold Fraud Venture
Explanation of Tradologic, which is an Israeli-run multinational ring of fraudulent call centers and financial websites.
xrayarx··on Did an F-22 Blow Up an Illinois Club’s Hobby Balloon?
They didn't escort the balloons. Maybe they made a flyby. A balloon goes with the speed of the wind, the f22 can't go that slow or it falls out of the sky. Especially at the heights we are talking about.
xrayarx··on Did an F-22 Blow Up an Illinois Club’s Hobby Balloon?
Of course the rockets are heat seeking. But someone has to give the order. They have sensors, they investigate. They report up the chain of command. I don't even want to know how many people were involved from the moment it was detected to the moment the order was given. 100? 1000? More? And no one bothered. And the US weather service alone starts around 60,000 to 100,000 balloons a year.
← PreviousPage 3 of 16Next →