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I did something similar with CA a few months back - https://blog.jonlu.ca/posts/ca-plate-checker

Next steps would be to make it LLM assisted and to generate common number/letter replacement combos


Great minds think alike! Tough you weren't able to find anything cool with it, but glad I wasn't the only one thinking to automate it :)


You ran javascript before doing a cmd+f? I guess you are the target audience for this article


You assume it was me that opened the page on a desktop or something with a primitive keyboard. I asked my agent to summarize and provide me the list of links to see if it was there. The list did not list bun. The code it executed through my phantomjs mcp server was simply:

    document.querySelector(a);


Well i guess thats what you get for using mcp instead of just opening the article and reading it


Guess you should have used your eyes and brain instead of outsourcing it to a chat bot


How can you complain about the article after wrongly assessing it? That's next level AI slop


Actually hilarious, the distribution of comments on HN is truly bimodal


We've been extremely happy Northflank users for a year now. We are a small, seed stage startup that is managing 7 different clusters across 3 separate clouds (GCP, Azure, and AWS) and Northflank has made it a breeze to use.

We manage a fleet of ~200 GPUs without a hitch. Would highly recommend them to anyone looking for a solution in the manged kubernetes / BYOC space.


You can do a lot of these fully locally with things like RVC web ui or https://tryreplay.io/


https://fakeyou.com has unlimited free RVC without an account. The UI needs work, though.


wish they had something for Linux


https://blog.jonlu.ca/

Mostly reverse engineering and security write ups


This is a weird coincedence - I just published a blog post on this two days ago https://blog.jonlu.ca/posts/snappy-internet


This effect is bananas. The internet feels remarkably different in Sydney and Tokyo than it does in Chicago.


Side note - I built a tool to help detect non-default javascript variables attached to the global scope https://github.com/jonluca/Window-Differ to aid in security analysis like this. Would be pretty nice to have in devtools


Very cool ! To ensure there is only one JavaScript interface, I edit hackability to be without popups and print, then host it. Your tool sound easier. https://portswigger-labs.net/hackability


It's even worse - you aren't allowed to work with anyone that you previously worked with for the duration of the clause.

I worked at an NYC based hedge fund until April 2022, and am not allowed to work with anyone that I've worked with at the fund until April 2024, regardless of when they left. This applies even if we don't work on anything competitive to the fund, or even related to finance.


> or even related to finance.

Does this apply to working with them in, say, a lobbyist's office? In certain, narrow circumstances I think this would conflict with various laws governing the right to free association and petition. And if you were both elected/appointed to office in the same legislative or executive body I presume the sovereign political interest would trump this clause.


Non-compete (and non-association) clauses aren't government regulation, it's agreements you make when accepting the job. Your first amendment rights aren't infringed by work dress codes either. You aren't at risk of criminal penalty, just whatever civil penalty is specified in the contract.

Not that that means they're necessarily okay, it's just unrelated.


This is why I wasn't citing the first amendment. It is not the only such law that exists. Even if it was I wouldn't have cited it because of the US Constitution's contracts clause. Some contract terms are unenforceable though, at least under certain circumstances. I just wonder how these things balance out in edge cases.


I don't know about the law of the United States, but here in New Zealand a contract purporting to interfere with the right of a citizen to stand for election to Parliament would be void as contrary to public policy (Peters v Collinge [1993] 2 NZLR 554), and there are various common law precedents on similar matters going all the way back to 1785. I would guess that a contract that purported to bind one of the parties not to vote in an election would be void in the United States, right? And probably one requiring the person not to stand for election too. Whether that extends all the way to a contract preventing someone from working in a politics-adjacent area like lobbying is questionable, of course, but it's worth bearing in mind...


It probably makes it worse as you need to disclose that you are a lobbyist and often who you meet with.


Yeah, these are crazy. I had a 3 month non compete (paid, it's great if you time it in summer).

BUT also a 5 year non-solicitation clause. The language is strict such that even if I & coworkerX move elsewhere, if I solicit coworkerX in that 5 year loopback they threaten to go after me.

So are these agreements legal in the sense that they'd stand up in court? No not really.. but you don't want to risk it.

All firms in the industry enforce similar clauses and defacto respect each others, such as to keep the facade up.

I had a firm make me a very generous offer and ask if I could get my PAID non-compete waived at old fund.

I asked - well you are asking me to ask to get my 3 months paid time off waived, can you offer me something in return.. like you'll pay me for 1 month and I'll start 2 months earlier? They said absolutely not, they don't want to be seen as soliciting me to violate my contract with old fund.


Do you have to quit if your new employer hires someone from your previous workplace?


Found this in Elon’s Twitter likes, Founders Fund tweeted about it too

It's a guest post on piratewires by Anduril co-founder Trae Stephens and Markie Wagner


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