Hacker News: cobychapple

New comment by cobychapple in "Iocaine: The deadliest poison known to AI"

cobychapple — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:54:20 +0000

Viewing this incorrectly flags my primary browser into the infinite tarpit but not a different browser. Perhaps a little too aggressive or not discerning enough?

New comment by cobychapple in "Atlas of Surveillance: Documenting police tech in our communities"

cobychapple — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 19:01:14 +0000

Why US-only?

New comment by cobychapple in "Unity shuts two offices because of credible threats"

cobychapple — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 01:18:07 +0000

Perhaps you might be referring to something closer to Gamergaters?

New comment by cobychapple in "Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out"

cobychapple — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 00:55:14 +0000

Interesting when taken together with things like the story from the other day about emerging AI/ML-based acoustic keystroke attacks against, which mentioned being trainable via Zoom calls: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37013704 / https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-acoustic-...

New comment by cobychapple in "Beaver Notes: A Privacy-Focused Open-Source Note-Taking App"

cobychapple — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 11:56:49 +0000

Also Simplenote from the Automattic folks: https://simplenote.com/developers/

New comment by cobychapple in "Beaver Notes: A Privacy-Focused Open-Source Note-Taking App"

cobychapple — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 11:52:43 +0000

Kudos for building a thing! Forgive the terse feedback, but I figure you wouldn’t post here if you weren’t seeking it. Quick thoughts:

A) Without providing a viable option for mobile (or even via a web UI on mobile), my guess would be that a desktop-client-only solution (like this appears to be?) is going to be a non-starter for a significant number of your potential audience. To me, cross-platform doesn’t just mean cross-desktop-OS - If something says cross-platform my personal expectation is that means desktop/mobile/web.

B) If your top-level value proposition is a focus on privacy and security, people are naturally going to ask further questions about the details. For example: - What encryption is being used here, and how? - If data isn’t stored on external servers, how do “your notes sync effortlessly”? What mechanism makes it possible to “access your data from any device, anywhere”? - How do I get my data OUT of this thing, if I decide it isn’t right for me?

C) If you’re going to go down the “unlike other note-taking platforms” route, it might be valuable to explicitly help people make the comparison in terms of features/approaches/architecture/trade-offs etc. How should one compare this against [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md)? [Simplenote](https://simplenote.com)? [Logseq](https://logseq.com/)? [Zettlr](https://www.zettlr.com/)? [Standard Notes](https://standardnotes.com)? Notion/Google Keep/Evernote/Workflowy/Dynalist etc?

RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths (1 April 1996, Ross Callon)

cobychapple — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 01:44:57 +0000

Article URL: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1925#section-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36856813

Points: 1

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New comment by cobychapple in "DreamBerd is a perfect programming language"

cobychapple — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 22:39:06 +0000

Needs a `really` operator for scale.

New comment by cobychapple in "Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page"

cobychapple — Fri, 26 May 2023 01:29:47 +0000

Underrated comment.

New comment by cobychapple in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)"

cobychapple — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 04:54:02 +0000

  Location: London, UK / Auckland, NZ / Sydney, AU
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies:
    Full-stack dev/product designer who is very comfortable with code - HTML/CSS optimisation/perf, JavaScript/TypeScript, product/system/visual/service/UX/interaction design, Figma/Sketch/etc, design systems, React + other frameworks, Ruby/Rails, Node, Python, Go, Rust, Zsh, Git, GitHub (built big parts of it!), Perl, Docker/Heroku etc, Chef/Puppet/Ansible, SQL/Postgres, R, security/cryptography/penetration testing, ML/AI/NLP Stuff™, Analytics/Data Science™, People Management™/coaching.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cobyism

Website: https://cobyism.com

GitHub: https://github.com/cobyism

Email: cobyism [at] pm [dot] me

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Quick TL;DR:

• Building products for the web for ~20 years — remember frames? spacer gifs? CGI? ActiveX/Flash? I do ^_^

• Product design at GitHub - My claim to fame is that while on the core team as an IC (~2012–2016), I was the 13th highest overall contributor to the github/github codebase by commit count.

• Product design at Intercom - First hire for London office, led major redesign of Messenger, led design of first ML-based chatbot product.

• Coach for Seth Godin’s altMBA

• Various adventures since pandemic/onset of apocalypse.

Seeking full-time roles, ideally focused on ML/AI space (although open to other areas, e.g. climate change, OSS/open data, web3, etc). Excited to help shape/design/build the infrastructure which will soon be at the core of how AI (and other high leverage tech) shapes the world. Especially keen to speak with anyone focused on AI safety/interfaces/governance.