Hacker News: casty

New comment by casty in "Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links"

casty — Sun, 24 May 2026 04:27:08 +0000

I can confirm. Interestingly they actually put a random USDC transaction number from Coinbase which was very close (close enough that I thought it was accurate) of a transaction I actually did on Coinbase at one point. I was so confused so I ended up calling the number but immediately realized once they picked up what was going on. Essentially they got really lucky that my actual transaction amount was close enough to seem plausible.

This is a failure on PayPal’s email template that the freeform text field appears just as legit as other items. The text label was something like “Message from Sender”.

New comment by casty in "What British people mean when they say 'sorry'"

casty — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:20:42 +0000

Sorry?

New comment by casty in "Kagi: April 1, 1996"

casty — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:51:55 +0000

"By this server's count, you are visitor number Warning: include(visitor_count.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/public/kagi.com/index.php on line 6!"

Possibly a unintentionally masterful gag example of how you'd see someone fail to set something up in php back in the day, or perhaps just a real error. :)

Also well done in the historical use of

and tags for layout! In fact, I just realized Hacker News still uses that, I mean, hey no shade.

New comment by casty in "Conway's Game of Life, but musical"

casty — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:43:10 +0000

The demo sounds lovely. Thought I’d mention that for the Eurorack synthesizer format there is a 16 cell sequencer by NLC: https://www.nonlinearcircuits.com/modules/p/cellular-automat...