Hacker trick: intercepting Amazon Dash button calls to turn them into free IoT triggers
mimi10v3 · x · 2026-11-02
Responding to dedene's nostalgia post calling Amazon Dash buttons "peak innovation—the original agentic commerce, a single tool call, zero hallucinations," author mimi10v3 shares a hackathon trick: intercepting and canceling the buttons' network calls to repurpose them as free IoT buttons for triggering arbitrary code.
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