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The Evolution of the Interface

https://www.asktog.com/columns/038MacUITrends.html
1•dhruv3006•54s ago•0 comments

Azure: Virtual network routing appliance overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-routing-appliance-overview
1•mariuz•1m ago•0 comments

Seedance2 – multi-shot AI video generation

https://www.genstory.app/story-template/seedance2-ai-story-generator
1•RyanMu•4m ago•1 comments

Πfs – The Data-Free Filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
1•ravenical•7m ago•0 comments

Go-busybox: A sandboxable port of busybox for AI agents

https://github.com/rcarmo/go-busybox
1•rcarmo•8m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation for NVFP4 Inference Accuracy Recovery [pdf]

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVFP4-QAD-Report.pdf
1•gmays•9m ago•0 comments

xAI Merger Poses Bigger Threat to OpenAI, Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-03/musk-s-xai-merger-poses-bigger-threat-to-op...
1•andsoitis•9m ago•0 comments

Atlas Airborne (Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk
1•lysace•10m ago•0 comments

Zen Tools

http://postmake.io/zen-list
1•Malfunction92•13m ago•0 comments

Is the Detachment in the Room? – Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r
1•carnevalem•13m ago•0 comments

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail
1•zdw•15m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
1•rcarmo•16m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
3•0xmattf•17m ago•0 comments

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

https://grist.org/cities/what-happens-when-a-neighborhood-is-built-around-a-farm/
1•Brajeshwar•17m ago•0 comments

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/every-major-galaxy-is-speeding-away-from-the-milky-wa...
2•Brajeshwar•17m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

https://www.noemamag.com/extreme-inequality-presages-the-revolt-against-it/
2•Brajeshwar•17m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

1•dtjb•18m ago•0 comments

What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work

https://medium.com/@aglaforge/what-really-killed-flash-player-a-six-year-campaign-of-deliberate-p...
1•jbegley•18m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?

1•buildingwdavid•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Knowledge-Bank

https://github.com/gabrywu-public/knowledge-bank
1•gabrywu•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Codeverse Hub Linux

https://github.com/TheCodeVerseHub/CodeVerseLinuxDistro
3•sinisterMage•26m ago•2 comments

Take a trip to Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

https://soranews24.com/2026/02/07/take-a-trip-to-japans-dododo-land-the-most-irritating-place-on-...
2•zdw•26m ago•0 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
38•bookofjoe•27m ago•13 comments

BookTalk: A Reading Companion That Captures Your Voice

https://github.com/bramses/BookTalk
1•_bramses•28m ago•0 comments

Is AI "good" yet? – tracking HN's sentiment on AI coding

https://www.is-ai-good-yet.com/#home
3•ilyaizen•29m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Amdb – Tree-sitter based memory for AI agents (Rust)

https://github.com/BETAER-08/amdb
1•try_betaer•29m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal for Skill Security

https://openclaw.ai/blog/virustotal-partnership
2•anhxuan•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 Release

https://seedancy2.com/
2•funnycoding•30m ago•0 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
1•thelok•30m ago•0 comments

Towards Self-Driving Codebases

https://cursor.com/blog/self-driving-codebases
1•edwinarbus•30m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Reversing a Fingerprint Reader Protocol (2021)

https://blog.th0m.as/misc/fingerprint-reversing/
65•thejj100100•6mo ago

Comments

abstractspoon•6mo ago
Excellent
Liftyee•6mo ago
Damn, I always thought that the fingerprint data was encoded somehow and never left the sensor hardware itself! OS-level access to the imagery seems like a security risk, but also opens some interesting possibilities for alternative uses.
jeroenhd•6mo ago
AFAIK it depends per reader. This one seems to be a weird webcam on steroids, but others do the matching locally.

IIRC, none of them do it particularly securely.

cinntaile•6mo ago
What's the security status of fingerprints on phones? Surely they don't leave the security chip? I hope?
maxhille•6mo ago
I don't think fingerprints should be regarded as a secret.
ta8645•6mo ago
Can you please post a link to high quality images of your own fingerprints? It should be fine, probably nobody has the technology to make them show up on a threatening letter mailed to the government, or anything like that.
maxhille•6mo ago
Of course I won't, but then again I would send you pictures of any other body parts the same.

If someone gets a hand on anything you touched, they have your fingerprint. Last time you traveled to another country - did you have to give them fingerprints? Is the software running your phone closed source? Could you ambush me at night near my house and forcefully take them?

All I am saying is they are so weak as a secret that rhey should not be regarded as one.

jeroenhd•6mo ago
AFAIK many phones store the fingerprints on-chip. I haven't looked too deeply into it, though, so it's possible there's a brand out there that streams fingerprint information as a video.

On Android, there are different levels of biometrics: https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/biometric If your fingerprint scanner reports Class 3/STRONG, hardware key stores are a requirement. Anything Class 2/WEAK or higher is supposed to make sure a kernel compromise cannot leak keys/authenticate to the OS. If it's Class 1/CONVENIENCE, simply running the biometrics in the trusted execution environment (think "secure VM acting as TPM") is also permitted.

On iOS the TPM/secure element deals with credentials, they're not submitted to the CPU.

JJJollyjim•6mo ago
As noted in the article I reversed the protocol for a related Goodix device (which was on Intel so used actual SGX instead of the white-box): I used the firmware update system to insert additional vulnerabilities in the sensor firmware and extract the PSK from that side.

I did a talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyjUY-xvFw4

th0mas•6mo ago
Author here, didn't expect to see this on HN today! If you've got any questions, shoot!
unlucky666•6mo ago
Do you have more posts similar to this one? Noticed your blog was a bit empty...
th0mas•6mo ago
Ha yeah I should really get on updating some of the info there. Got derailed with work quite a bit.

Most recently did some work on BitLocker: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42747877

ge96•6mo ago
The real work ha underneath the software eg. I can't write a camera driver but thankfully someone else can

That's cool the raw data image GIMP

johnflan•6mo ago
I didn't follow the byte ordering of the image format at the end. Anyone have an explanation?
pastage•6mo ago
You have four 12 bit values, they are packed into 6 bytes. Camera image formats are different but I am guessing this is probably MIPI RAW12?

EDIT: You have the code in the repo. https://github.com/tlambertz/goodix-fingerprint-reversing/bl...

mrheosuper•6mo ago
> It then proceeds to generate a new, random, PSK and sends it to the device. This represents a trust-on-first-use security model.

Wow, i expect them using hardcoded PSK, with PSK is flashed in factory.