Hacker News: dangrossman

Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes

dangrossman — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:24:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/fraud-investigation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915587

Points: 169

# Comments: 202

New comment by dangrossman in "HN Search isn't ingesting new data since Friday"

dangrossman — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 03:10:10 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up! HN Replies is up and running though, and notified me of a test comment I just made. If anyone would like to troubleshoot their subscription, feel free to email me.

New comment by dangrossman in "NASA study reveals Venus crust surprise"

dangrossman — Tue, 13 May 2025 09:52:41 +0000

The WH website switched from Drupal to WordPress in 2017.

New comment by dangrossman in "Show HN: Lumoar – Free SOC 2 tool for SaaS startups"

dangrossman — Mon, 12 May 2025 22:08:04 +0000

"Show HN" posts announcing a new tech startup/tool are a core part of this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew

I see nothing wrong with this post. They're sharing something they've made and getting valuable, constructive feedback. I appreciate HN being one of few places that still happens at.

New comment by dangrossman in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

dangrossman — Sun, 11 May 2025 04:22:26 +0000

Gmail is the only product you listed that Google started itself.

Google Maps was built on the acquisitions of Where 2 Technologies, Keyhole and ZipDash.

Chrome is based on WebKit, built at Apple.

Waymo's hardware came from the acquisition of 510 Systems, and the software came from the acquihiring of the team that developed Stanford's self-driving cars for the 2005 and 2007 DARPA challenges, who brought their code with them.

New comment by dangrossman in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

dangrossman — Sun, 11 May 2025 00:12:01 +0000

Almost all the things in this list were acquired from someone else that built them, rebranded, and then given away for free, taking much of the money out of the market that allowed that product to be built. Without Google giving away the one winner they chose to acquire, you'd have options again.

I built my free web stats service in 2004 because I couldn't afford an Urchin license. Google bought Urchin Live and rebranded it as Google Analytics, and gave it away for free. My service barely pays for itself 20+ years later, but I'm still here and would have an offering for that market on day one that Google Analytics shut down. So would dozens of others.

New comment by dangrossman in "Restructuring Announcement"

dangrossman — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 20:16:12 +0000

From Reddit discussions, if they can be trusted, there is nobody who can remove Matt from any position. It's a private company and the investors were given non-voting shares.

New comment by dangrossman in "GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet"

dangrossman — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:39:25 +0000

I remember that fondly, that was the time period when I first got online and made my own GeoCities page. I first learned HTML from a page in the Athens neighborhood, on lot 2090. 30 years and I still have that address memorized.

https://web.archive.org/web/19961022173343/http://www.geocit...

Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50k cash

dangrossman — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:08:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/two-americas-one-bank-branch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43270103

Points: 78

# Comments: 66

Changes in brain's 'sugar shield' could be key to understanding effects of aging

dangrossman — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 17:53:04 +0000

Article URL: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/02/study-links-the-sugars-on-cell-surfaces-to-brain-resilience

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43233003

Points: 42

# Comments: 1

New comment by dangrossman in "The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025"

dangrossman — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:06:19 +0000

I'm surprised they're not just refunding all the purchases. I thought Amazon was still that kind of place. When they discontinued Amazon Cloud Cam in 2022, they sent out a replacement Blink camera for every Cloud Cam I had purchased, plus a year of free Blink service. This was 5 years after I had purchased the cameras, and they made no commitment to them working forever.

New comment by dangrossman in "Aluminum batteries outlive lithium-ion with a pinch of salt"

dangrossman — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:52:09 +0000

About 40% of lithium is "mined" from brine rather than hard rock sources, at least. Much less destructive and less carbon intensive.

New comment by dangrossman in "Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored"

dangrossman — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A date picker widget I tossed on NPM 13 years ago gets 32,000 downloads per week. 510 a week is background activity, that's indexing bots or one org's CI system.

New comment by dangrossman in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

dangrossman — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 04:14:59 +0000

Confinity is the company that developed the PayPal website that survived that merger. Elon Musk was not on the Confinity side, he was trying to pivot his x.com bank into a PayPal clone and buy users ($30 per signup) faster than them until they merged to avoid running each other out of cash. The two startups were operating out of the same building at the time. After the merger, Musk was named CEO but ousted from the company just 5 months later, in part for being absent much of the time (including at the time of his firing), and in part because the PayPal engineers had circulated a petition to the board asking them to remove him. The board agreed.

New comment by dangrossman in "Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets"

dangrossman — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 19:11:40 +0000

> "While 5 CFR 315 does permit immediate termination, it does not permit arbitrary termination. The termination must be related to unsatisfactory performance or conduct (section 804) or conditions arising before employment, which usually means something from your background investigation (section 805)..."

https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1id7ud2/comment/m9...

New comment by dangrossman in "WordPress Is in Trouble"

dangrossman — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:40:05 +0000

I don't think it's a mental breakdown, I think this is a (poorly executed) long pivot into Matt's companies having tighter control over the ecosystem and keeping more of the profits from hosting, plugin and theme sales. He's burning down "the community" on purpose. In a couple years, it'll be run more like Shopify, where the theme store and app store only list products that run their billing through Shopify and give Shopify a 15%+ share of all associated revenue.

New comment by dangrossman in "I will never need to buy a new computer again"

dangrossman — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 17:22:32 +0000

I just got rid of my 2013 Microsoft Surface Pro. It was still being used daily in my workshop, 11 years old. Core i5 processor, running Windows 10. I only got rid of it because the battery decided to become a spicy pillow one night, expanding until it cracked open the case and pushed out most of the touchscreen.

Registration Data Access Protocol

dangrossman — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 03:13:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.icannwiki.org/Registration_Data_Access_Protocol

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42662984

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

WordPress: Joost/Karim Fork

dangrossman — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 02:40:48 +0000

Article URL: https://wordpress.org/news/2025/01/jkpress/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42662801

Points: 35

# Comments: 9

Aligning Automattic's Sponsored Contributions to WordPress

dangrossman — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:49:45 +0000

Article URL: https://automattic.com/2025/01/09/aligning-automattics-sponsored-contributions-to-wordpress/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42650138

Points: 98

# Comments: 54