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Re:Show HN: F1 COSMOS – Live timing and data dashboard for F1 fans on Saturday August 02, 2025 @05:21PM (#44771615)
Wow, this is just stunning. I will be using it tomorrow morning. Thanks for making this!
Re:Panasonic Toughbook 40 on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @01:54PM (#41382225)
I started my IT career in emergency medical services. It was amazing to see the beating these computers can take. I have seen toughbooks (Panasonic, GETAC) survive after being run over by an ambulance, fall off the back of an ambulance at high speed, etc. They are very modular and easy to fix.

Show HN: Automatic security lookups from your clipboard

Posted by ackatz on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @08:29AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://seclook.app

seclook is a macOS/Swift app that sits in the background and monitors your clipboard, sending any IP, SHA2/MD5 hash, or domain to VirusTotal and AbuseIPDB. If any scanned item has a bad reputation score, you get a notification!This app is geared towards SOC analysts to notify you if you copy anything malicious as you are working through an alert/random day-to-day...

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Re:Ask HN: Cross-platform GUI apps in 2024 on Saturday December 30, 2023 @04:59PM (#38819646)
I just learned of Flet (https://flet.dev) which seems interesting for Python. I may try this as well.
Re:Ask HN: Cross-platform GUI apps in 2024 on Saturday December 30, 2023 @02:57PM (#38818454)
Thank you. This looks really promising and I’ve been wanting to check out Golang again

Ask HN: Cross-platform GUI apps in 2024

Posted by ackatz on Saturday December 30, 2023 @02:05PM
from the ask-hn dept.

What would you use to build a small, cross-platform app with a GUI in 2024? Ideally, I want it to be usable on Mac, Windows, and Linux. I usually use Python but my experience has been that it’s really hard to distribute Python GUI apps. I have heard that Electron is good for this situation. Are there any new frameworks or platforms that you would recommend?

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Re:Ask HN: Share a product you loved using in 2023 on Monday December 25, 2023 @10:26PM (#38768681)
* Apple M1 Pro

* Noteplan

* PyCharm

Re:Show HN: Heynote – A Dedicated Scratchpad for Developers on Saturday December 23, 2023 @12:16AM (#38741825)
Really well done. This will be replacing Sublime Text which I use as a scratch pad.

Please add inverted add and syncing to iCloud Drive.

Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? on Thursday December 14, 2023 @12:01PM (#38643711)
I created PyLaunch, a web UI for running scheduled Python scripts. For my personal use, it has usually been to send daily/weekly notifications about things: weather, metrics about my projects, news about TV shows and video games, shopping/prices, etc. I am basically sending stuff to push notification services like Pushover or Ntfy.sh. It has been working really well. I was surprised to see a few sign-ups already in less than a month.

If you're interested: https://pylaunch.com

Re:Ask HN: Your [paid]Subscriptions on Saturday November 18, 2023 @12:24PM (#38321919)
- Pycharm

- iCloud stuff

- ChatGPT Plus

- Noteplan

- GitHub Copilot

- 1Password

- Netflix

- YouTube

Re:Tweet Deck, Elevated: Introducing Feedboard on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:33PM (#38234226)
Are you considering adding RSS too?
Re:Ask HN: Where do you all invest your money? on Monday November 06, 2023 @02:15PM (#38167357)
My approach to investing is $VOO and chill
Re:Show HN: Whisper.Page – Share secrets, notes, and code with someone... on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:49AM (#38165013)
No, anything including and after the # is not seen by the server. Here is a screenshot from Fly that shows what it looks like from my end: https://imgur.com/a/41XxtHJ

If someone were to go to just the /sha256/sha256 link without the encryption key bookmark appended to it, they would see: Decryption failed: ChaCha20Poly1305 key must be 32 bytes.

Or with a wrong key they would see: Decryption failed:

Re:Show HN: Whisper.Page – Share secrets, notes, and code with someone... on Sunday November 05, 2023 @01:40PM (#38154145)
I just see these in my server logs when someone generates a link:

INFO: [cloudflare ip]:47174 - "POST /generate_link HTTP/1.1" 200 OK

Re:Ask HN: Resources to stay up to date on modern cloud security? on Saturday November 04, 2023 @11:59AM (#38142250)
Check out the Risky.biz podcast. It is a mix of information security / political news. I have found this is the best way for me to keep a pulse on what’s going on.
Re:Show HN: Whisper.Page – Share secrets, notes, and code with someone... on Friday November 03, 2023 @09:06PM (#38137023)
The whole URL with the decryption key gets sent to the user one time when it’s generated. The key is tacked on at the end after a “#” symbol like you would see in a bookmark. It’s not used by the app as a bookmark, but the value is still accessible in the browser (window.location.hash). This way, I can send users their links and their decryption keys, but I will never be able to access the keys myself.

Show HN: Whisper.Page – Share secrets, notes, and code with someone you trust

Posted by ackatz on Friday November 03, 2023 @07:18PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://whisper.page

Whisper.Page (https://whisper.page)Hi HN,I made an app to share secrets, notes, and code blocks with someone you trust. Some of the interesting/useful aspects of Whisper Pages are:* Focused around Markdown * Open source * Client-side decryption with WebAssembly (the key is stored in the window location hash in the URL)Please check it out and let me know what you think. There are tons and...

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Re:Show HN: Glyph DLP – a data loss prevention API on Friday October 20, 2023 @07:16PM (#37962555)
Thank you! That is a great point. I will keep this in mind.

Show HN: Glyph DLP – a data loss prevention API

Posted by ackatz on Friday October 20, 2023 @05:32PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://www.glyphdlp.com

Hi HN,Glyph DLP is an API that scans or redacts sensitive information (emails, SSNs, credit cards, etc.) from Base64-encoded files/strings. So far I have coverage for text files, JSON, PDF, CSV, DOCX, and XLSX files and may consider adding a few more in the future.I made this app mostly for fun and learning and to scratch the creative itch over the past few months. I am using FastAPI in Docker...

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