Hacker News: counternotions

New comment by counternotions in "Bench to be acquired after abruptly shutting down"

counternotions — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 02:25:57 +0000

BOI filing isn’t that hard? Takes 5 minutes to DIY each entity on the FINCEN portal.

New comment by counternotions in "Cops suspect iOS 18 iPhones are communicating to force reboots"

counternotions — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 01:59:30 +0000

Neat trick. But in what cities do people need to live like this?

New comment by counternotions in "Show HN: I launched a super cheap and simple to use OCR tool for macOS"

counternotions — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 02:48:30 +0000

Cleanshot has OCR built in as a feature too

New comment by counternotions in "How to Train Yourself to Go to Sleep Earlier"

counternotions — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 12:41:52 +0000

Huh, how did a mattress review website stuffed with affiliate links make it on HN?

New comment by counternotions in "Costco now offering virtual medical care for $29"

counternotions — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 04:57:45 +0000

Idiocracy called it. Costco law school soon.

New comment by counternotions in "Fedora considers “privacy-preserving” telemetry"

counternotions — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 13:44:59 +0000

> One of the main goals of metrics collection is to analyze whether Red Hat is achieving its goal to make Fedora Workstation the premier developer platform for cloud software development. Accordingly, we want to know things like which IDEs are most popular among our users, and which runtimes are used to create containers using Toolbx.

New comment by counternotions in "Writing summaries is more important than reading more books"

counternotions — Sat, 20 May 2023 14:48:24 +0000

Inspectional reading is one of the key limitations for me when reading books on the Kindle. I need to be able to quickly flip around from toc to glossary and between chapters. There’s still too much friction for that with the ebook format.

New comment by counternotions in "I built an iMessage bot using Beeper"

counternotions — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 20:31:50 +0000

Seems like there's a wrapper app like this that marks the peak of each generation of chat apps. Meebo used to be the sh*t.

New comment by counternotions in "Mastodon Branding Update"

counternotions — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 14:13:06 +0000

Got curious about who else is sponsoring Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors

Though not completely surprised, I must say this collection of logos is a bad look for Mastodon's mainstream adoption. >80% of the sponsors are suspicious looking casino and adult sites.

Game crowdsources cyberattacks against Russian websites

counternotions — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 20:47:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/90732766/ddos-play-for-ukraine-russian-cyberattack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30727320

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Asynchronous Programming in Nim

counternotions — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 18:16:22 +0000

Article URL: https://peterme.net/asynchronous-programming-in-nim.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30725644

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Why is memory safety still a concern?

counternotions — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 23:54:01 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EscMOcMNOwi-bCgOthjiwIXE30w_SeHk3ahjyY0pX10/edit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30717162

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Exposing initial access broker with ties to Conti

counternotions — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 23:31:41 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/exposing-initial-access-broker-ties-conti/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30717016

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Russia House Faces an Uncertain Future After Sustaining Costly Damage

counternotions — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 22:53:51 +0000

Article URL: https://dc.eater.com/2022/3/1/22954736/washington-dc-russian-harassment-boycott-vodka-russia-house

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30716762

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Cloudflare Friendly Bots

counternotions — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 13:31:26 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/friendly-bots/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30710956

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

New comment by counternotions in "RT America ceases productions and lays off most of its staff"

counternotions — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 22:03:08 +0000

Would have been nice if TikTok had suffered the same fate. Drastically higher societal damage caused to America through that platform. No one cares about RT, comparatively...

New comment by counternotions in "Why Peter Thiel Searches for Reality-Bending ‘Secrets’"

counternotions — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 16:02:21 +0000

While I am intrigued by the tease of what kind of secrets could possibly have been discussed, this piece comes off as kind of try-hard, an excuse to flex that David took part in a private dinner with his #1 hero.

New comment by counternotions in "Carvana bought my seven-year-old car for more than I paid brand-new"

counternotions — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:14:05 +0000

Eh this reads as a sponsored content piece for Carvana. On the other hand, here’s a more interesting take on the “ponzi” model behind this co: https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/767332-clastic/5659699-ca...

New comment by counternotions in "Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds"

counternotions — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 20:21:24 +0000

The wife could plead not guilty by reason of insanity:

https://twitter.com/matthewesp/status/1491116443207094272?s=...

New comment by counternotions in "Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds"

counternotions — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 19:02:02 +0000

Wow can't wait for this book.