billyhoffman

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by billyhoffman 5mo ago
Props to @sleepingNomad here, who has done 16 releases in the last 7 hours, incorporating feedback from HN on the fly! * Don't like menubar apps? you you can run it as a normal app * Don't like GUIs? Now you can run it on the comm
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by billyhoffman 5mo ago
Sincere advice: Consider engaging with a community before trying to use it to promote your work. You account is not even 3 months old. In that time you made 6 submissions, all of them appears to be to your own work. You have only commented
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by billyhoffman 6mo ago
I mean it's cool your created a new CMS and all, but beyond the look of the admin interface and publishing flow, I don't see how this is a "Spirtual Successor" to WordPress at all. Its a CMS, designed from scratch, for a
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by billyhoffman 6mo ago
For plugins, no. 1- EmDash plugins are written in TypeScript, not PHP 2- EmDash plugins have a specific permissions model, where they need to explicitly request access to certain things. 3- WordPress plugins just invoke things. EmDash plug
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by billyhoffman 7mo ago
There's a nice graph in this Six Colors article: https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/03/apple-introduces-colorful... Single Core performance: the A18 Pro is faster than an M3! Multi Core performance: The A18
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by billyhoffman 7mo ago
For years Apple has been selling an M1 Apple MacBook Air for $649 via Walmart. It was still using the old wedge case design and is literally unchanged from fall of 2020 when it came out. It was the base model with 256 GB storage and 8 GB of
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by billyhoffman 7mo ago
Minor suggestion. I found this because the UI looked cool and I wanted to see a more zoomed in view of it. But right now the "Take control of your network today" is the only place with a really readable view of the UI. Perhaps add
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by billyhoffman 7mo ago
Congratulations on shipping! Looks awesome. Minor bug: I tried opening the WebP screen shots in another tab so I could zoom and see them more clearly, and it does not work. Chrome renders the WebP image data as text, and Safari prompts you
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by billyhoffman 8mo ago
There are real problems with the Torrent files for collections. They are automatically created when a collection is first created and uploaded, and so they only include the files of the initial upload. For very large collections (100+ GB) i
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by billyhoffman 10mo ago
I built and run a search engine and a "Wayback Machine" for Gemini: gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev There are ~4K hosts and ~1M documents/images/files which make for nice playground with experimenting with crawlers,
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by billyhoffman 11mo ago
In the early to mid 2000s I would believe this. But for a major e-commerce provider in 2012? That seems vanishing improbable. PCI DSS is the data security standard required by credit card processors for you to be able to accept credit card
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by billyhoffman 1y ago
> Their response was better than 98% of other companies when it comes to reporting vulnerabilities. Very welcoming and most of all they showed interest and addressed the issues This was the opposite of a professional response: * Official
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by billyhoffman 1y ago
During my last semester at Georgia Tech, I had one remaining 3000-level English credit I needed to graduate. During the last week to register, I quickly found an open class titled "Modern Authors" and signed up. But when I attende
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by billyhoffman 1y ago
Oh snap! The same group behind last year’s Polyfill.io supply chain attack are back! Krebs doesn’t mention it but The Register makes the connection; https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/30/fbi_treasury_funnull_
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by billyhoffman 1y ago
!!! Message: DISPMORNING. NEED LEO TO MEET THE AC. A PAX WAS INAPPROPRIATELY TOUCHING ANOTHER PAX IN THE ROW INFRONT OF THEM. THE FAS HAVE THE SEAT NUMBER ANDMANIFEST. FYI AND THX https://infosec.exchange/@acarsdrama/11
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by billyhoffman 2y ago
Beyond just IPs, there is a giant class of "DNS record pointing to X shared cloud resource that organization no longer controls" issues. The bigger the company, the more widespread the problem. These resource names get released ba
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by billyhoffman 2y ago
I'm glad you are having success, but B2C is wildly different than B2B. I can't think of any B2C company that could do calls with customers. The economics don't make sense. Instead they use large advertising buys to communic
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by billyhoffman 2y ago
So port knocking, but with also returning junk during the knocking process?
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by billyhoffman 2y ago
> OpenAI is the fastest growing startup by revenue, ever. No it's not. Facebook hit $2B in Revenue in late 2010 - early 2011, ~5 years after its founding. https://dazeinfo.com/2018/11/14/facebook-reven
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Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework(theregister.com)
7 points by billyhoffman 2y ago|6 comments
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Using clustering and summarization algorithms for news aggregation(medium.com)
1 points by billyhoffman 2y ago|0 comments
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by billyhoffman 2y ago
It started that way but wasn’t been for a while. In fact the last version was a rewrite using native macOS controls and optimized for Apple Silicon. Sad to see it go but heard great things about Rider for c# development.
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by billyhoffman 2y ago
Licensing. Common Crawl could change the license of how the data it produces is used. Common Crawl already talks about allowed use of the data in their FAQ, and in their terms of use: https://commoncrawl.org/terms-of-use&#x2
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by billyhoffman 2y ago
Common Crawl is shown in their screen shot of "Providers" along side OpenAI and Antropic. The challenge is that Common Crawl is used for a lot of things that are not AI training. For example, it's a major source of content fo
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by billyhoffman 2y ago
It would be interesting to get better SaaS metrics, specifically on customer churn. I can't find that in the linked document. They are growing, but how much of that marketing spend is needed for growth vs just maintaining the customer
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by billyhoffman 2y ago
The game port was amazing. You got 4 ADCs (for the X axis and Y axis of a joystick, 2 joysticks supported) and you got 4 GPIO bins for the "buttons" (2 buttons per joystick, again 2 joysticks supported with 1 port). If you didn&#x
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by billyhoffman 2y ago
Mustard did an awesome analysis of this exactly this: Flying Cruise Ships, why we don’t have giant air ships https://youtu.be/LyaYaFzSPac?si=hZ6HV0YuCOg-WUYT Basically, the economics no longer work. Airships really can’t ca
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Unauthenticated, RCE vulnerability in Palo Alto firewalls, exploits in the wild(security.paloaltonetworks.com)
38 points by billyhoffman 2y ago|1 comments
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by billyhoffman 2y ago
Seeing NewsWaffle mentioned here just made my day! I’m glad you find it helpful
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by billyhoffman 2y ago
Google Zürich also did Zopfli, a DEFLATE-compliant compressor that gets better ratios than gzip by taking longer to compress. Apparently Zopfli = small sweet breat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zopfli

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