Hacker News: byoogle

New comment by byoogle in "Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice"

byoogle — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:27:15 +0000

In general, a successful web request costs 1 credit: https://doc.agentfirst.dev/endpoints/pricing

New comment by byoogle in "Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice"

byoogle — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:57:24 +0000

Agent First is the name of my startup (https://agentfirst.dev/), which mostly does what you described. :-)

New comment by byoogle in "Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo"

byoogle — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:51:47 +0000

This article is re-reported – and badly written:

“His limbs and head were stuffed in bags in the living room.

“…

“It remains unclear how the victim died.”

Here’s a more informative, earlier article: https://www.pulse.ng/news/ceo-of-gokada-fahim-saleh-found-de...

Block telemarketers automatically in iOS

byoogle — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 00:00:07 +0000

Article URL: https://callblockapp.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13982049

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by byoogle in "Wells Fargo's Bid to Vanquish Screen Scraping"

byoogle — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 03:02:40 +0000

Perhaps Wells Fargo should finish implementing their website first. They’re missing basic services like letting you make a wire transfer online. Our company is in the middle of switching banks because dealing with them is such a hassle.

New comment by byoogle in "Jacob Appelbaum’s response to accusations by the Tor community"

byoogle — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 21:49:16 +0000

While I agree with your hesitancy, Daniel, I submitted this post because I’d seen two (but I was wrong – there were probably three: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11845351) submissions on the front page in which Jacob has been accused of crimes (outside any legal system) and I believe letting readers get his side of the story is only fair at this point.

New comment by byoogle in "Jacob Appelbaum’s response to accusations by the Tor community"

byoogle — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 08:26:22 +0000

Previously:

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11831629

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11837901

Jacob Appelbaum’s response to accusations by the Tor community

byoogle — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 08:23:38 +0000

Article URL: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1soorlp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11845338

Points: 131

# Comments: 177

New comment by byoogle in "Security company Blue Coat files for IPO"

byoogle — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 23:51:23 +0000

Blue Coat is rather controversial: https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/735941957130817536

Security company Blue Coat files for IPO

byoogle — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 23:30:57 +0000

Article URL: http://fortune.com/2016/06/02/bain-blue-coat-ipo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11833998

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by byoogle in "Jacob Appelbaum Leaves the Tor Project"

byoogle — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 19:39:01 +0000

Having had several technical discussions with Jacob, I’m certain he’s technically skilled.

(I’m a former Google engineer, have worked on privacy and security software [I created Disconnect, have contributed to HTTPS Everywhere].)

New comment by byoogle in "Show HN: A browser extension that prevents “pastejacking”"

byoogle — Mon, 30 May 2016 15:39:10 +0000

Pastejacking is an interesting new exploit that was discussed last week on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11757973

I took a crack at creating a patch in the form of an extension since I’ve created some similar extensions before (Adblock Fast, Disconnect, Facebook Disconnect). The extension works by providing a small shim to override exploitable JS methods on the webpages you go to.

You can install Hardened Paste for Chrome from the Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hardened-paste/gie...

An Opera port is in review and, if there’s interest, we can also port the extension to Firefox and Safari.

Show HN: A browser extension that prevents “pastejacking”

byoogle — Mon, 30 May 2016 15:37:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/rocketshipapps/hardenedpaste

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11801777

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by byoogle in "Let’s continue to build Product Hunt, together"

byoogle — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 05:41:36 +0000

I’m unsure as to why the Product Hunt outrage in particular. Every major distribution platform (the press, social networks, app stores, even Hacker News) favors insiders. Has PH been presented as a solution to this problem? (I never thought so, but perhaps I haven’t been paying such close attention.)

New comment by byoogle in "Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS"

byoogle — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 18:46:49 +0000

I linked to Disconnect’s apparently abandoned open-source project (https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect), which I presume is the basis of Focus’s blocking.

New comment by byoogle in "Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS"

byoogle — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 18:36:18 +0000

Yes, see the benchmarks and last FAQ on http://adblockfast.com/.

Edit: Yes to Firefox as well, see https://github.com/rocketshipapps/adblockfast/issues/23 for timeline.

New comment by byoogle in "Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS"

byoogle — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 18:26:09 +0000

As the original developer of Disconnect, on which Focus’s blocking is said to be based, I (with my development team) created a new, open-source ad blocker for Chrome, Opera, and iOS called Adblock Fast (http://adblockfast.com/ and https://github.com/rocketshipapps/adblockfast on GitHub) because I think Disconnect became abandonware after I left the project a year and a half ago – there was one commit made to Disconnect in 2015 (https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/commits/master).

New comment by byoogle in "Appeals court hits largest public patent troll with $1.4M fee"

byoogle — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 02:29:44 +0000

No, in Palo Alto. I guess this founder is based here.

New comment by byoogle in "Appeals court hits largest public patent troll with $1.4M fee"

byoogle — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 01:31:58 +0000

Randomly, I met one of the founders of Intellectual Ventures today. I wasn’t sure if I was resolving the name right and, unfortunately in retrospect, I didn’t ask, ”Oh, the massive patent troll?”

New comment by byoogle in "Crystal, iOS ad blocker, to accept money to let ads through"

byoogle — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 03:26:08 +0000

Ty! Do you mind filing a bug against the repo, so we have a good place to follow up?