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Danny Lin

Hi! I make things.

I like solving hard problems and building sculptures around them.

What I'm working on

OrbStack · Founder

Fast, light, easy Docker containers and Linux machines. Docker Desktop replacement.

Stanford

Computer Science

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Bluesky

Past doings

Work

Research · Stanford SCS

2022
Contributed to OSDI 2023 paper “Accountable authentication with privacy protection: The Larch system for universal login”

Developer · GrapheneOS

2021
Built WebUSB installer and sandbox for Google services

Color science

Hueflake

2022
Personalized themes for code editors and terminals

Repainter

2021
Dynamic themes for Android

Color.kt

2021
Kotlin color appearance modeling library

Android apps

Nestbox

2022
Linux virtual machines on Android phones

Touchpaint

2020
Measure touch latency

Tipatch

2018
Patcher for data backups

Android hacking

Windows 11 on Pixel 6

2022
The ghost of Windows Mobile

Universal SafetyNet Fix

2021
Bypass security checks on rooted devices

adevtool

2021
Boilerplate for custom OS builds

Android 12 Extensions

2021
Unlock hidden Android 12 features

ProtonAOSP

2020
Minimal Android OS fork for design and performance

freqbench

2020
Measure CPU efficiency & power curves

Proton Kernel

2018
Linux kernel optimized for performance & battery

Misfits

Pyrobud

2018
Telegram selfbot

Bluestone

2016
Because who hasn't written a Discord bot?