Hacker News: brntn

New comment by brntn in "Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished"

brntn — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:53:37 +0000

In this case the consequence is that the Australian government agency collecting the import tax doesn't get paid. Which means that they don't release the package to FedEx, and that you don't get your package.

FedEx needs to do a better job with these notifications. At the very least they need to hire a copywriter.

Australian media has been publishing AI-manipulated Barnaby Joyce images

brntn — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:35:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/02/23/barnaby-joyce-canberra-photo-artificial-intelligence/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39479040

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by brntn in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

brntn — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:38:56 +0000

https://brntn.me

I'm a web developer, so I end up mostly writing about Python / Django related topics in that space, but really it's anything tech related.

Why Did the TwitterMigration Fail?

brntn — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 21:15:30 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/why-did-the-twittermigration-fail/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36512720

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Charlie Bit My Finger should be acquired for the nation

brntn — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 08:04:52 +0000

Article URL: https://interconnected.org/home/2023/06/02/charlie

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36209664

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A Vatican-Sized Flag Mystery

brntn — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 01:19:56 +0000

Article URL: https://pxlnv.com/blog/vatican-sized-flag-mystery/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35298076

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Django 4.1 Released

brntn — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 07:01:40 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/releases/4.1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32340029

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

BMW starts selling heated seat subscriptions for $18 a month

brntn — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:50:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/12/23204950/bmw-subscriptions-microtransactions-heated-seats-feature

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32068030

Points: 14

# Comments: 5

Django security releases issued: Patches potential SQL injection

brntn — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 08:04:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2022/jul/04/security-releases/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31974638

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Zwift Cancels Smart Bike Hardware Plans, Announces Significant Layoffs

brntn — Thu, 12 May 2022 09:35:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/05/zwift-cancels-smart-bike-hardware-plans-announces-significant-layoffs.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31351404

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

paulgraham.com is serving the certificate for *.store.yahoo.com

brntn — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 03:50:15 +0000

Article URL: https://paulgraham.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29481065

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by brntn in "Simple text editor has over 15k monthly users"

brntn — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 03:11:04 +0000

I build a little scratchpad for personal use: https://sesh.github.io/scratchpad/

I guess for the most part these sort of things start off solving a personal problem. Getting 15k monthly users is very impressive!

Git ransom campaign incident report

brntn — Tue, 14 May 2019 21:23:57 +0000

Article URL: https://about.gitlab.com/2019/05/14/git-ransom-campaign-incident-report-atlassian-bitbucket-github-gitlab/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19914028

Points: 181

# Comments: 71

Show HN: Posts since 2017-01-01 that have reached 500 points

brntn — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 19:45:51 +0000

Article URL: https://hn500.brntn.me/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16054873

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by brntn in "Mailit: A Tiny Drop-In REST API to Send Emails"

brntn — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 08:55:55 +0000

It's not _worse_, it's just designed for a use case that expects it to only be available to services that are allowed to send email.

New comment by brntn in "Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes"

brntn — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:26:14 +0000

Nice work!

Are you using mptt or treebeard under the hood to manage the forking?

Show HN: A base template for your web projects

brntn — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 04:53:25 +0000

Article URL: http://basehtml.xyz

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14728422

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by brntn in "Git-recall - Simple and handy tool to easily recall what you've done"

brntn — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 04:20:10 +0000

This seems very similar to the (quite popular?) git-standup script.

https://github.com/kamranahmedse/git-standup

As someone that often works across multiple projects, I find the ability to do a recursive search through a directory of git repositories very valuable.

Show HN: Basehtml.xyz

brntn — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 21:52:17 +0000

Article URL: http://basehtml.xyz

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13466419

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: piprot – How rotten are your [python] requirements?

brntn — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 01:02:42 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sesh/piprot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7274789

Points: 1

# Comments: 0