Readit NewsSakthimm commented on Root shell on a credit card terminal stefan-gloor.ch/yomani-ha... · Posted by u/stgl
UART always the first place I look…
My thoughts exactly. Why desolder the flash chip before probing for UART? Still, impressive work.
Sakthimm commented on Show HN: Offline SOS signaling+recovery app for disasters/wars github.com/nizarmah/igath... · Posted by u/nizarmah
My friend works at one of the world's largest steel plants and recently he was discussing some ideas with me about solving the problem of people disappearing during inspections and being found dead after a few days. Apparently it is a huge problem there that he wanted to build a startup around the tech.
I am saying this because I think your target market may not be people stuck under rubble, but large scale industries, construction site workers, miners, firefighters, who can install the app beforehand. Cheers.
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maybe someone will figure out some ways to prune/ quantize it a huge amount ;-;
edit: If the AI bubble pops we will be swimming in GPUs... but no new models.
This is absurd. We have crossed the point of no return, llms will forever be in our lives in one form or another, just like internet, especially with the release of these open model weights. There is no bubble, only way forward is better, efficient llms, everywhere.
A lot of it is reduced BOM. You can get a more robust solenoid lock and control it with a microprocessor for less than the cost of a robust, fully mechanical system, which is a system that needs mechanical maintenance and is subject to all sorts of false inputs like people putting all their weight on a lever.
Buttons flush with the surface or low profile levers such as the ones shown in the picture can be more robust against certain mechanical attacks simply by having lower weight, lower travel, and being smaller (don’t need to exhibit mechanical advantage).
I’m a fan of simple mechanisms with no software in them whenever possible, but I don’t have to deal with the cost and reliability problems.
Won't a solenoid lock with microcontroller circuitry have a higher risk of failure due to water damage, power surges, and other factors(software bugs, hackers, cosmic rays!), in addition to wear and tear of a mechanical lock?
Okay, think about it this way. This thing helps generate tons and tons of code. The more code people (or this thing) writes, the more shit there is to debug. More and more code, each calling each other means more and more insane bugs.
We’re going to move from debugging some crap the last developer wrote to debugging an order of magnitude more code the last developer generated.
It’s going to be wonderful for job prospects really.
Until AI figures out debugging