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authenticate, sudo, login with your fingerprint wire(less)ly without having to spend $149 at the cost of some security

7 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2026-08-04 · latest 2026-08-11

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  1. …in the future. Hardware authenticator to wave for access based on vein print biometrics. Similar to https://github.com/ZimengXiong/TinyTouch Open source library management system for books and other media that supports federation with…
  2. https://github.com/zimengxiong/tinytouch spoofs as a card reader but won't work with Apple Pay and the like.
  3. …consider TinyTouch as a potential biometric hardware supplement when a keyboard does not support: https://github.com/zimengxiong/tinytouch (no affiliation, saw a thread on it here)
  4. Well there is this https://github.com/zimengxiong/tinytouch
  5. https://github.com/zimengxiong/tinytouch
    comment by toomuchtodo · 2026-08-05 · in Desktop Touch ID sensor for $20 [video]