The stats page has been reworked. New data points have been added and there is now a variety of charts showing the progress over time. hns.cymon.de/stats

So to sum up my commentary on the Starship/Superheavy test launches: IFT1 - 'Holy Shitballs! It's Moving!' IFT2 - 'Holy Shitballs! It's staging!' IFT3 - 'Holy Shitballs! It's burning up!' IFT4 - 'Holy Shitballs! They landed!'

the creator of neofetch archived everything his last commit was changing his README to "have taken up farming" beautiful.

#linux users right now 🐧

Seeing the world as black boxes can be quite limiting. When you start looking into how things are made and see them as the sum of their parts, you feel more in control of how the world around you works and feels. Week 3 update on Tigger (a device that nudges your child to build

Apple released a hearing aids feature for the AirPods Pro a while ago. I bought a pair for grandma, but then realized that the feature was geoblocked in India So we at Lagrange Point decided to unblock it. It ended up involving a leaky microwave and building a Faraday cage:

Last week, I built a Faraday cage with friends We built this to unlock hearing aids mode on the  AirPods for grandma, geoblocked in India for regulatory reasons This cage is in Koramangala, Bangalore 🇮🇳. But inside the cage, your phone thinks it's Menlo Park, California 🇺🇸

This is what hacking is for. Amazing job and amazing human beings. #epic

We got covered by WIRED on our lil hack! Thanks . and Lily Hay Newman :) Link here: wired.com/story/apple-ai…

we also got covered in the Times of India today, on page 2!

It's done. Now it’s your turn, Oracle. We’ve submitted a formal petition to cancel the JavaScript trademark: it is generic, Oracle has abandoned it, and Oracle committed fraud on the USPTO during the last trademark renewal. Oracle has until January 4th to respond, or the

Built a super fast search engine for finding electronics components in India 🇮🇳 with Rithwik (is in SF) We've got components with pricing and stock info from different Indian vendors (like Robu, Probots etc) Using it for finding parts for our own hacks, and it is fast (link below ⏚)

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Last year, a friend was planning a trip to an amusement park for her bday. Site design is often a good heuristic for security and the design wasn't inspiring confidence—so I went poking. A fun story of finding a payment bypass in PayU India and the subsequent disclosure arc:

the Doctor does NOT and has NEVER loved River Song (and if you think otherwise, you must be watching a different show): a thread

"A calculator app? Anyone could make that." Not true. A calculator should show you the result of the mathematical expression you entered. That's much, much harder than it sounds. What I'm about to tell you is the greatest calculator app development story ever told.

Zipline Patient Stories — Delivery #1,459,819 On the evening of March 28th at 17:00 GMT, a 4-year-old girl was playing outside her home in Gbintiri, a farming village in the north east region of Ghana, when she was bitten by a venomous snake hiding under a pile of firewood. Her

In India 🇮🇳, students in colleges prepare to enter the real world by doing fake things: - meaningless resume padding projects - endless interview prep - placement politics We can do better. Introducing quest: A set of hard but tractable *real world* problems you can solve

Had a great time at the engineering guild yesterday, hosted by FERMÀT at the @lagrange point. Really pretty, new property, which I can see is going to host super cool folks, building in Bangalore. SO many stories to capture!!