Hacker News: nothasan

New comment by nothasan in "FDA recalls defective iOS app that injured over 200 insulin pump users"

nothasan — Thu, 09 May 2024 17:18:23 +0000

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.

New comment by nothasan in "Injection of "smart insulin" regulates blood glucose levels for one week"

nothasan — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 23:15:41 +0000

"Just another 5 years for a cure"

New comment by nothasan in "Ask HN: How would you re-design Hacker News?"

nothasan — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 11:01:11 +0000

I’d remove flagging or hiding on mobile unless you click on the post because it’s easy to accidentally do it.

New comment by nothasan in "Ask HN: What is your preferred domain registrar?"

nothasan — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 00:31:39 +0000

Have used both Porkbun and Infomaniak, neither with any issues.

New comment by nothasan in "Ask HN: How would you make an additional $500k in 1 year?"

nothasan — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 01:52:11 +0000

- 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.

New comment by nothasan in "Google removed my Yubikeys from a Google account 'just to be safe'"

nothasan — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 20:52:04 +0000

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.

New comment by nothasan in "Google removed my Yubikeys from a Google account 'just to be safe'"

nothasan — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 20:42:49 +0000

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.

New comment by nothasan in "Ledger Stax – Hardware wallet with eInk display for digital assets"

nothasan — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:02:48 +0000

Off-topic but what do you think they used here to render the UI. Qt?

New comment by nothasan in "Ask HN: Are most software practices and idioms subjective?"

nothasan — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 18:38:13 +0000

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

New comment by nothasan in "How to Bypass Cloudflare: A Comprehensive Guide"

nothasan — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 15:31:43 +0000

Some impressive documentation on how to get around this BM solution.

New comment by nothasan in "Cloudflare has replaced Nginx with in-house, Rust-written Pingora"

nothasan — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:01:33 +0000

Pretty sure they analyse TLS handshakes for their Bot Management product and probably other things.

New comment by nothasan in "Scraping data from an app: real world example"

nothasan — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 02:47:34 +0000

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.

New comment by nothasan in "Kanye West's Stem Player – An engineering disaster"

nothasan — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 04:36:28 +0000

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.

New comment by nothasan in "Stem cells may finally offer a cure for Type 1 diabetes"

nothasan — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 07:11:30 +0000

Reducing the amount being injected is still having to live with it.

New comment by nothasan in "Adafruit requires 2FA to prevent bots buying out Raspberry Pi"

nothasan — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 01:09:09 +0000

There was two stages for that sale (possession requirement + public). And someone was still able to automate and purchase 1% of the entire supply.

New comment by nothasan in "Adafruit requires 2FA to prevent bots buying out Raspberry Pi"

nothasan — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 19:30:34 +0000

Pretty easy to automate this

New comment by nothasan in "How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API"

nothasan — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 11:55:48 +0000

If they used cronet, they could get past these checks.

New comment by nothasan in "Ask HN: How to start learning embedded systems?"

nothasan — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 04:13:39 +0000

RISC V is an option I guess

New comment by nothasan in "Amazon.com product pages are down"

nothasan — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 07:33:29 +0000

A CDN is a reverse proxy with the ability to cache. They are not very different.

New comment by nothasan in "Amazon.com product pages are down"

nothasan — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 03:54:17 +0000

Pretty sure they use CloudFront