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Discovering that a Bluetooth car battery monitor is siphoning location data
Hi HN, this is my efforts in reverse engineering a BLE car battery monitor where it's app has over 100,000 downloads on the Google Play store alone.<p>It turns out it's sending GPS, cell phone tower cell IDs and Wifi beacon data to servers in Hong Kong and mainland China on a continued basis. Google and Apple app store pages say no personal data is collected or sent to 3rd parties.<p>Hopefully readers pick up a few tips on reversing apps for their connected devices.
Discovering that a Bluetooth car battery monitor is siphoning location data
Hi HN, this is my efforts in reverse engineering a BLE car battery monitor where it's app has over 100,000 downloads on the Google Play store alone.<p>It turns out it's sending GPS, cell phone tower cell IDs and Wifi beacon data to servers in Hong Kong and mainland China on a continued basis. Google and Apple app store pages say no personal data is collected or sent to 3rd parties.<p>Hopefully readers pick up a few tips on reversing apps for their connected devices.
Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation
XML is the future
Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings
Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings
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Towards a “PCB Drone” – Making a PCB Motor which reaches 30k RPM [video]
ThinMachine – A $25 thin client macOS Time Machine appliance
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The EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries
A new study looks at how exercise can help alleviate anxiety and depression
Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser
Hi HN, I recently created and published an open-source resume builder as a weekend project. The idea came to me while I was mentoring students and noticing common mistakes they made in their resumes that I had also made in the past. I thought to build a tool to help people easily create a modern professional resume with built-in best practices to avoid those mistakes.<p>Top highlights of the resume builder are:<p>1. Real time UI update as you type<p>2. ATS friendly to top ATS platforms, e.g. Greenhouse, Lever<p>3. Privacy focus - no sign up is required and data is stored locally in browser that only users have access<p>4. Support import from existing resume PDF<p>The tool also includes a resume parser to help people test their existing resumes’ ATS readability if they might not be interested in using the builder. I also explained the parser algorithm in an article with interactive tables that might be an interesting read to see the steps and logics it uses (<a href="https://www.open-resume.com/resume-parser" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.open-resume.com/resume-parser</a>).<p>I hope others might find this tool useful and I look forward to hearing any feedback the community has. Thanks all.<p>Home Page: <a href="https://open-resume.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://open-resume.com</a><p>Github Repo: <a href="https://github.com/xitanggg/open-resume">https://github.com/xitanggg/open-resume</a><p>Product Hunt: <a href="https://producthunt.com/posts/openresume" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://producthunt.com/posts/openresume</a>
Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser
Hi HN, I recently created and published an open-source resume builder as a weekend project. The idea came to me while I was mentoring students and noticing common mistakes they made in their resumes that I had also made in the past. I thought to build a tool to help people easily create a modern professional resume with built-in best practices to avoid those mistakes.<p>Top highlights of the resume builder are:<p>1. Real time UI update as you type<p>2. ATS friendly to top ATS platforms, e.g. Greenhouse, Lever<p>3. Privacy focus - no sign up is required and data is stored locally in browser that only users have access<p>4. Support import from existing resume PDF<p>The tool also includes a resume parser to help people test their existing resumes’ ATS readability if they might not be interested in using the builder. I also explained the parser algorithm in an article with interactive tables that might be an interesting read to see the steps and logics it uses (<a href="https://www.open-resume.com/resume-parser" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.open-resume.com/resume-parser</a>).<p>I hope others might find this tool useful and I look forward to hearing any feedback the community has. Thanks all.<p>Home Page: <a href="https://open-resume.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://open-resume.com</a><p>Github Repo: <a href="https://github.com/xitanggg/open-resume">https://github.com/xitanggg/open-resume</a><p>Product Hunt: <a href="https://producthunt.com/posts/openresume" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://producthunt.com/posts/openresume</a>
Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located
Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located
Decades-long bet on consciousness ends
Jessica Livingston (2015)