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inezk commented on A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines grith.ai/blog/clinejectio... · Posted by u/edf13

drewda · 7 days ago

FWIW, the best way to get your website on Hacker News is to write a content-marketing blog post about someone else's work.

Don't get me wrong. This post is an interesting read. But the company publishing it appears to have nothing to do with the exploit or the people who discovered or patched it.

I tip my hat at their successfully marketing :)

inezk · 7 days ago

You mean.. like a newspaper?

inezk commented on Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist? · Posted by u/StefanBatory

rkourdis · a month ago

I was very interested in athletic robots, so I left my job in software to build a quadruped and make it backflip [1]. I made the hardware at home (the design was open-source [2]) and wrote the framework to generate jumps, flips, etc. I started with basically zero robotics knowledge, so it was a lot of work, but it was incredibly fulfilling and super fun. I personally learn best by building things.

I'd say start playing with 3D printing and motors to make mechanisms that move (pendulums, simple walkers, ...). +1 to tinkering with the 3D printer itself (that someone mentioned) as you can learn a lot about how the machine works and figure out ways to improve it.

You've mentioned the physical aspect, but simulation could also be a good starting point. You can now very easily train RL agents in sim to say, walk, and transfer to real hardware afterwards.

Finally, if you like flying stuff, there's drones you can buy that are controlled programmatically (e.g. Crazyflie). I haven't played a lot with these, but I've seen them used to teach control and they seem like a nice, inexpensive platform to experiment with.

[1]: https://github.com/rkourdis/trajopt?tab=readme-ov-file#backf...

[2]: https://open-dynamic-robot-initiative.github.io

inezk · a month ago

> I was very interested in athletic robots, so I left my job in software to build a quadruped and make it backflip

This is the best thing I've read today!

inezk commented on GitHub removes bunch of data from their webhook payloads github.blog/changelog/202... · Posted by u/inezk

inezk · 7 months ago

It's hilarious how little info they provide about what's that they are removing.

inezk commented on What does connecting with someone mean? talk.bradwoods.io/blog/co... · Posted by u/bradwoodsio

inezk · 8 months ago

Great insights. In US people do ask one another "how are you?", perhaps in a shallow way - but I think it's still an opener that can lead to more meaningful conversation. In Poland for instance, where I'm from, people don't ask "how are you?" one another - which slightly limits that opportunity. At the same time Europe as a whole has so much better work life balance which allows for many more outside work friends and family connections and spending time together.

inezk commented on Show HN: Minimal, self-hosted exercise tracker github.com/bmtwl/exercise... · Posted by u/DrPhish

inezk · a year ago

Very cool! I like the simplicity of it. Right now I'm working on something similar for myself (and some of my family), but maybe other people find it potentially interesting too? Essentially I'm building a webapp that each time I use it will arrange random ~5-7 lower back exercises from a list of ~25 for a total of 10 minutes session. Then it will guide me (only time and name of exercise) through the workout session (counting down the exercise time, and pause/break time). The problem I'm solving is to not have to think too much about what exercise I should/want to do next, make it a little bit more fun/interesting (due to randomness aspect) and free my hands from operating a timer to time myself (also less likely to drift to social media or youtube videos). Thoguhts?

inezk commented on Running PHP fast at the edge with WebAssembly wasmer.io/posts/running-p... · Posted by u/ecmm

jw1224 · 2 years ago

The “edge” in this case is the browser (from a pure WASM standpoint, though I see these guys also offer a hosted serverless version too).

For most general-purpose applications, there’s no point to WASM. But some apps may run specific functions which take a long time (e.g. bulk/batch processing), and being able to execute those tasks securely on the client side provides immediate feedback and better UX.

That’s just one use case. Another is that WASM makes PHP portable, in the sense it can run in any web browser without the need for a back-end server. Lots of potential opportunities for distributing software which runs completely locally.

inezk · 2 years ago

I don't think edge in this case mean browser. I think edge in this case is more similar to a CDN node.

inezk commented on The Polish Election Bazaar dragonscave.space/@miki/1... · Posted by u/miki123211

inezk · 2 years ago

I'm Polish (well, not spending much time in Poland lately), but just FYI this practice (not the election silence - that is true) is not something me or family ever heard about. Maybe it exists, but it's not popular.

inezk commented on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? · Posted by u/l2silver

pigcat · 3 years ago

My grandmother has dementia. About twice a day, she calls my parents every 5 minutes, forgetting that she just hung up. The calls are always the same: "You live there now. Yes you have money. We came to visit you yesterday." This can go on for an hour or so.

My parents are incredibly patient, but after a couple of these calls, they'll just leave the phone to ring. The soundtrack of the phone constantly ringing in the house, and the guilt associated with not picking up, is unbearable.

My brother and I built a system where her calls get re-routed to a rotation of relatives to answer her calls, to spread the load. After a call with her, each person gets a 2 hour break (customizable). If no one is available to answer, or if everyone is on break, she gets a voicemail that my dad recorded that explains that we love her, that she lives there, all the usual stuff.

It's working beautifully.

inezk · 3 years ago

This is beautiful, I wonder if there is a way to make it avaliable to more people. Not even as a business - I just imagine it would help a lot of families in similar situations.

inezk commented on Show HN: Kinde – auth, feature flags and billing (Q3) in one integration kinde.com/... · Posted by u/connorkinde

inezk · 3 years ago

I don't mean it in a bad way but I scrolled through the website, watched the video, and still don't really know what is the product/service/offering and when would I need it.