Hacker News: crisnoble

New comment by crisnoble in "ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks"

crisnoble — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:37:59 +0000

I am left wondering if it is such a critical task, how even 1% error rate would reduce human review of all outputs.

New comment by crisnoble in "ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks"

crisnoble — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:17:10 +0000

Not to mention how this does nothing about all the other ways an attacker could could exfiltrate data with default google sheets formulas like IMPORTHTML, IMPORTXML, or even HYPERLINK which will all generate http request.

New comment by crisnoble in "ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks"

crisnoble — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:09:40 +0000

If it was incorrect 10% of the time would it be of help still?

New comment by crisnoble in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

crisnoble — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:12:21 +0000

Moving the vendor lock-in to the AI provider and exponentially increasing the pain of migration by locking all teams and all services in at once.

New comment by crisnoble in ""Disregard That" Attacks"

crisnoble — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:45:07 +0000

Perhaps they asked AI to summarize the article for them and it stopped after the first "disregard that" it read into its context window.

New comment by crisnoble in "Just use a button"

crisnoble — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:05:49 +0000

`appearance: none` goes a long way to resetting button styles. I usually make a .unbuttonify class to use or extend for things I want to behave like buttons (free focus, accessibility, and interactivity) but look like, say, a hamburger menu toggle.

New comment by crisnoble in "200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green"

crisnoble — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:57:32 +0000

Are we are the stage where it is normal to be giving governments always on background access to our gps location voluntarily?

New comment by crisnoble in "Meta found 'covertly tracking' Android users through Instagram and Facebook"

crisnoble — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:25:53 +0000

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Momento's Series A and the General Availability of Topics

crisnoble — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 23:53:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gomomento.com/blog/momento-series-a-topics-general-availability/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41000843

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by crisnoble in "U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high"

crisnoble — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:48:22 +0000

If you were to bike around my city, you will notice that between zero and one percent of vehicles will come to a full stop at any stop signs or while doing right turns on red lights. For pedestrian safety, I think rolling right on red lights is worse because the cars will often only be looking left, and never check to their right for someone in the crosswalk or a cyclist approaching on their right.

New comment by crisnoble in "Ask HN: Those with success using GPT-4 for programming – what are you doing?"

crisnoble — Mon, 22 May 2023 22:51:20 +0000

writing regexes

New comment by crisnoble in "Google Analytics 4 was frustrating, so we built our own analytics service"

crisnoble — Wed, 17 May 2023 19:30:14 +0000

In this case they are creating a service and selling it, so it's not like they just decided to roll their own analytics because they hate GA4.

New comment by crisnoble in "Google Analytics 4 was frustrating, so we built our own analytics service"

crisnoble — Wed, 17 May 2023 19:25:57 +0000

There has never ever been a better time to jump ship from GA. All of your historical GA data will NOT be viewable in your GA4 property. The biggest moat they had was millions of sites with multi year page view data for easy trend comparisons. The moat is now broken and they don't care. GA4 and the forced migration is being handled so bad the only explanation is they would rather nobody use GA anymore.

New comment by crisnoble in "Tell HN: The “Y” logo in the top-left corner has been upgraded to SVG"

crisnoble — Thu, 11 May 2023 00:44:43 +0000

I always assumed it was created with html/css. After all it is just a capitol Y.

``` Yhttps://news.ycombinator.com">Y class="sr">combinator Logo ``` ``` .logo { display: block; width: 18px; background: #ff6601; border: 1px solid white; color: white; text-align: center; ```

Salesforce Launches “Web3” Services

crisnoble — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 01:02:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.salesforce.com/products/web3/overview/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35176853

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by crisnoble in "AI is coming to Hollywood with Metaphysic"

crisnoble — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 19:11:30 +0000

Was this comment generated by OpenAI?

New comment by crisnoble in "Corpse Flower Bloom"

crisnoble — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 16:59:59 +0000

We had one bloom in San Diego last fall, and I was very excited to smell something super pungent. It kinds of smelled like wet dirt, which was not much different than any other time inside an indoor greenhouse. It looked amazing, and was worth going just for that, but the smell was very underwhelming.

New comment by crisnoble in "Zapier: A $5B Unbundling Opportunity"

crisnoble — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 15:52:48 +0000

Even if that was literally all it could do, it would easily be worth $50/month for marketing teams.

New comment by crisnoble in "Zapier: A $5B Unbundling Opportunity"

crisnoble — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 15:50:07 +0000

I am a software developer, have a paid professional plan, and am almost out of my "zaps".

Here are a two of my favorites:

* Non profit community organization wants to sell event tickets. Paypal Order -> Add row to spreadsheet for simple reporting -> Add/Update user in mailchimp with a tag so they don't get future emails asking to buy tickets again.

* Small client wants a gated webinar signup. Wordpress Contact Form -> Zapier Endpoint POST -> Add user to Zoom Registration -> Add/Update to mailchimp with a source tag -> Add row in spreadsheet

Could these be done without zapier? Sure. But using zapier we can create that within 30 minutes without a server, or even dealing with serverless. Even if someone had those workflows as a one click install for lambda workflow, I would rather use zapier than deal with any AWS overhead.

To everyone who thinks that "a webform to google docs" is the most common use case you are probably right. If you think that you could create the infrastructure to do that consistently with automatic retries, logging, error handling, keep on top of API changes from both ends, across dozens of clients, proper authorization and secret management, for cheaper than $50/month, then you are kidding yourself.

New comment by crisnoble in "Goodbye CSS Modules, Hello TailwindCSS"

crisnoble — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 20:13:24 +0000

Probably would actually be a valid way to go if you could do media queries and didn't need vendor prefixes.