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Amazon Nova Act

dguo — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:21:22 +0000

Article URL: https://labs.amazon.science/blog/nova-act

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535379

Points: 7

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New comment by dguo in "Ear muscle we thought humans didn't use activates when people listen hard"

dguo — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 14:54:39 +0000

I can do the same and also didn't know how to explain it until I stumbled upon this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/earrumblersassemble/

So apparently we can control our tensor tympani muscle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle

Beat the Drum

dguo — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 13:55:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/beat-the-drum

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42887673

Points: 25

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Prefer Numbered Lists to Bullets

dguo — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:41:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/prefer-numbered-lists-to-bullets

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42550249

Points: 1

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How to Watch a Baby

dguo — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:33:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/c/24278723/comic-baby-monitor-surveillance-history-tech

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42236593

Points: 3

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New comment by dguo in "Google banned me from Google Voice"

dguo — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:07:55 +0000

Author here.

That's a good hypothesis! But I have a strong preference for email over SMS for communication from companies, so I receive almost no texts from credit card companies. It's pretty much limited to an occasional authentication code for logging in (since TOTP-based two-factor is so unfortunately rare).

New comment by dguo in "My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack"

dguo — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:32:37 +0000

Good point about the technical founder. That was certainly the case for us, as our CTO handled many issues himself.

New comment by dguo in "My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack"

dguo — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 01:14:55 +0000

I know it sounds bad, but in practice, it really did work fine for us for quite a while.

1. We didn't experience that many incidents that couldn't wait until working hours.

2. There was never an explicit expectation to keep an eye out. We did it anyway because we were at an early-stage startup, and we all deeply cared about making our products work for our customers.

New comment by dguo in "My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack"

dguo — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:50:40 +0000

Writing this post did make me think that if someone had a well-trained dog, they could hook up a monitoring service to something that makes a particular sound, which tells the dog to alert the person.

Her name was (I sadly lost her to cancer) Bamboo! Because one of the first things she did after I adopted her was to try to eat my bamboo plant.

New comment by dguo in "My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack"

dguo — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:47:25 +0000

Yep, I know it could only invite more trouble. It was fun to fantasize about though, especially after watching the video I linked to in the post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWzz3NeDz3E