Ask HN: My son might be blind – how to best support
Disclaimer: I am not blind, but I am disabled. Does your region have any Blind-run blindness or vision impairment advocacy organisations, big or small? Local groups? Groups/organisations by the blind will be able to recommend all sorts of resources for your family. Online communities for the blind can help suss out which resources or groups […]
It’s Okay to Abandon Things
In this blog post, I’ll share with you my methods for dealing with abandoning books, movies, and personal projects. You see, I have a bit of a perfectionist/completionist streak. That’s worked against me in these areas. I’m able to keep it in check in my work life. When writing code on a deadline, it’s good […]
Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc
September 19, 2024 To Whom It May Concern The Pokémon CompanyNintendo Co., Ltd. Nintendo Co., Ltd. (HQ: Kyoto, Minami-ku, Japan; Representative Director and President: Shuntaro Furukawa, “Nintendo” hereafter), together with The Pokémon Company, filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court against Pocketpair, Inc. (HQ: 2-10-2 Higashigotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, “Defendant” hereafter) on September […]
Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain (2010)
Sergei is a veteran of the early days of the computing industry as it was developing in the Soviet Union. I had the pleasure of working and learning from him over the past year, and in that time I picked up more important lessons about both life and embedded programming than any amount of school […]
AI agents invade observability: snake oil or the future of SRE?
The Mooster and friends would like to join your ops team. This newsletter was started 5 years ago to explore emerging observability and monitoring startups. In the most boring sense, these companies take operational data and create insights from that data for humans. This always involves a lot of dashboards, alerts, API integrations, and a […]
J2ME-Loader: J2ME emulator for Android devices
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Ruby-SAML pwned by XML signature wrapping attacks
GitLab and others are affected. The blame lies in the SAML specification, and in credulous engineers that implement it. CVE-2024-45409 was published on September 10, 2024. It’s yet another XML signature wrapping attack, this time affecting the main Ruby implementation of SAML. The vuln allows an attacker log in as any arbitrary user of the […]
Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring to eliminate UI tests
Hey HN! I’m Gabriel, CEO and co-founder of Meticulous, https://meticulous.ai/?utm_source=hn. Backed by YC, Coatue, the CTO of GitHub, CEO of Vercel, CPO of Adobe and others, https://meticulous.ai?utm_source=hn monitors how developers interact with your app and automatically generates and maintains test coverage nearing 100%. Even for the most complex applications. All without needing to write or […]
Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran
We’ve recently (2-3 weeks?) started experiencing high failure rates in our CI build jobs https://gitlab.com/prpl-foundation/prplos/feed-prpl/-/jobs?statuses=FAILED and subjectively it seems, that it’s getting worse each week, there is one such example https://gitlab.com/prpl-foundation/prplos/feed-prpl/-/jobs/3418282471. Running with gitlab-runner 15.6.1 (133d7e76) … Pulling docker image registry.gitlab.com/prpl-foundation/prplos/prplos/prplos/sdk-ipq40xx-generic:latest … WARNING: Failed to pull image with policy “always”: Error response from daemon: Get […]
Infinite zoom art turned into a game so fun
Sarah’s Scribbles and An Infinite Story have teamed up to create a “hidden art game” that is a new kind of interactive storytelling game. The cartoon-like game, or gamified experience, is called Sarah Andersen Comics “After Owning a Cat,” in partnership with An Infinite Story. It’s based on the art of Sarah Andersen, whose work […]