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by dweekly 7d ago
or the liquid metal element
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Show HN: A MT7921U USB Driver for macOS Network Sniffing(github.com)
2 points by dweekly 14d ago|0 comments
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by dweekly 18d ago
The last thing my father said to me before he passed was to keep people looking forward to the future. It's easy to romanticize the past and it can seem intellectually sophisticated to despair about the future, when in fact the overwhe
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by dweekly 22d ago
He was my roommate in 2001 in San Jose. We came up with the idea of having a place where nerds could come together to hang out and learn from each other and we decided to call the concept "Hacker Dojo". I had a sign laser engraved
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by dweekly 1mo ago
GCP/Vertex, Firebase, Spanner, Waymo, Gemini + Nano Banana, Google Photos, TPUs, Pixel, Assistant, Google Fi, Taara...
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by dweekly 2mo ago
1. He cites existing academic literature that is peer reviewed such as the link I provided. 2. If his claims are incorrect and poorly sourced, feel free to call them out. But his research appears to have been rather exhaustive on this topic
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by dweekly 2mo ago
Interestingly enough, strong corporate governance and independent directors do not produce better returns. This is a central point in Eric Rees's book Incorruptible. https://leeds-faculty.colorado.edu/bhagat/bb-022
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Detailing a phishing attack: Nyasher, a Google account-takeover kit(david.weekly.org)
2 points by dweekly 2mo ago|1 comments
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by dweekly 2mo ago
A friend of mine got phished and I did a teardown of the infrastructure components that were used to execute the attack, that executes a Browser-In-The-Middle attack with an encrypted websocket. I've already reached out to the involved
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by dweekly 2mo ago
On licenses, what's your recommendation for best practice for an LLM co-authored project? Apache 2.0 or MIT seemed the best fit. UPDATE: On the play button, I found your issue; I had tested on Chrome desktop and it worked fine, but I&#
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Show HN: Cyrinx (36kbps Acoustic Transport)(cyrinx.org)
6 points by dweekly 2mo ago|3 comments
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by dweekly 3mo ago
Mac Studio M3 Ultra: $5299 (+$1300) Oof. That and October delivery. I wonder if the intent here is basically just to signal to the market where the M5 Ultra Studio is going to start.
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by dweekly 4mo ago
For human in the loop to be effective, the human needs to actually be performing some substantive action, giving real guidance and critique and pushback. If the human only ever accepts the default plans then not only is there no understandi
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by dweekly 4mo ago
That does seem to be the path Apple is following here. Have a local model that can answer most things and then have a fallback of cloud options when they request is too complex. The cleverness of this strategy has been overshadowed by the i
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by dweekly 4mo ago
This is their global headquarters. Yes, that appears to be the whole thing. https://www.google.com/maps/place/488+State+Rd+%231,+Plymout...
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by dweekly 4mo ago
Fair, and I meant it as illustrative of partner depth generally rather than as a specific example around RAM.
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by dweekly 4mo ago
And by "places orders" we mean "helps TSMC acquire plots of land on which their next facilities will be constructed" kind of level of scope, timing, and commitment.
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by dweekly 4mo ago
Note that this is how the FAA has been doing its written tests for years: you go to a proctor test facility and through a metal detector. The entire thing is videotaped.
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by dweekly 4mo ago
The only path to cool is through cringe. You can do it! I think a lot of people after a random compliment might be wondering if the other person is trying to get something out of them, like a date or a business deal. When it becomes clear t
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by dweekly 4mo ago
I think a reasonable proxy for "care" is genuine curiosity about who a person is, how they came to be where they are, what makes them tick, coupled with a general desire for positive things to happen to them in their life. If you
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by dweekly 4mo ago
I've got a Photos album called Keys.
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by dweekly 5mo ago
My read on the book was "humans are really good at telling if you genuinely care about them or not and will respond well to that, so you should genuinely care about the people around you, and good things will result from that overall,
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by dweekly 5mo ago
The pricing models that are published on AWS' website almost certainly have almost nothing to do with the pricing models that are discussed behind closed doors for a $100 billion commitment.
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by dweekly 5mo ago
Having just checked my child in for their doctor appointment, 90% of web software would be dramatically improved by using very boring best practices and readable and accessible web practices.
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Show HN: Undocumented Qualcomm mesh topology 802.11 frames(david.weekly.org)
2 points by dweekly 5mo ago|0 comments
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by dweekly 5mo ago
GPT 5.4 is the surly physics PhD post-doc who slowly and angrily sits in a basement to write brilliant, undocumented, uncommented code that encapsulates a breakthrough algorithm. Opus 4.6 is the L5 new hire SWE keen to prove their chops and
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by dweekly 5mo ago
I mean, guess why Anthropic is pulling ahead...? One can have one's cake and eat it too.
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by dweekly 6mo ago
Chrome Sync, iCloud Sync. There are great answers for this.
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by dweekly 6mo ago
You tap your finger and you're done. Faster than a password paste. How is that complex or difficult UX?
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by dweekly 6mo ago
Passkeys are the 2026 answer. No (added) username, no password, no two factor SMS, no phishing.

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