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Nonpolynomial
Company blog · nonpolynomial.com · on HN as qdot76367programminghardware
Nonpolynomial is the company blog at nonpolynomial.com, writing about programming and hardware. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “How to beg/borrow/steal your way to a cross platform Bluetooth LE library (2023)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts appear to cover Kinect hacking, judging by the thread title. The one comment discusses Microsoft's Kinect SDK licence terms and does not assess the blog's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Nonpolynomial is a small company involved in making complex interfaces easier and more secure for people who need those attributes. Our primary focus is engineering with a human focus. We like working on problems for people who need to develop tactile contact via systems that don’t ordinarily facili
Most-linked posts?
- How to beg/borrow/steal your way to a cross platform Bluetooth LE library (2023)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-10-30
What Hacker News says?
Yeah I wrote and manage our Bluetooth le library! It’s been one of the bigger regrets of my life, but it had to happen and at least it works and I don’t have to touch it much now. :) Here’s how that came together: https://nonpolynomial.com/2023/10/30/how-to-beg-borrow-steal...
Comment linking /2023/10/30/how-to-beg-borrow-steal-your-way-to-a-cross-platform-bluetooth-le-library/
on “Empathy for the user having sex with your software”Submitted Buttplug (Sex Toy Control Library) Hits v1 Milestone as a story · 319 points
HN discussionMy personal buttplug domain collection includes: http://buttplug.engineer - My personal website http://butt.engineering - My company website ( http://nonpolynomial.com ) buttplug.zone/games/cam/online/tech/work/app - Going to point to various parts of my Intiface product line at some point. Games should probably be pointed at https://intiface.com/ghr for now.
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on “Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in”Submitted How to beg/borrow/steal your way to a cross platform Bluetooth LE library (2023) as a story · 80 points
HN discussionThe Beta SDK FAQ is chock full of interesting issues, including: Not being able to distribute applications standalone, users must also download SDK to get the runtimes No commercial use, and on top of that, due to the fact that MS cannot predict the usage of the kinect SDK, all SDK derived applications should not be considered “allowed under the SDK”. Microsoft owns the right to say what software you can use the har…
Comment linking /2011/06/16/console-controls-usage-and-the-kinect-sdk/
on “Microsoft Makes It Easier to Hack the Kinect”Submitted Haptics rerouting for fun and no profit as a story · 39 points
HN discussionWow, Vice is really gonna ride this story for all its worth. If you're curious, I've been following this hardware for a couple of years (my startup, https://nonpolynomial.com , works with intimate interfaces, which people here may know as https://buttplug.io ), and ended up writing a couple of twitter threads on this during the first exploits that explain QIUI's reply to the situation (which was horrible, and also h…
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on “We Spoke to a Guy Who Got His Dick Locked in a Cage by a Hacker”Submitted How to Beg/Borrow/Steal Your Way to a Cross Platform Bluetooth LE Library as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNeat project! I did something like this a few years ago to learn how to use NLTK with python (no longer running, but code/story is at http://www.github.com/qdot/fwiktr and http://www.nonpolynomial.com/2007/06/23/fwiktr-v01/ ), sometimes the more abstract results are the really interesting ones. :) Also of interest, there was a music video made that used searches involving the song lyrics to create a dynamic music vi…
Comment linking /2007/06/23/fwiktr-v01/
on “Subtwitle - turn your tweets into photo captions”Submitted How to Beg/Borrow/Steal Your Way to a Cross Platform Bluetooth LE Library as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Buttplug Rust v3.0 Released: Less is less as a story · 1 points
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