Hacker News: frereubu

New comment by frereubu in "I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware"

frereubu — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:10:09 +0000

I have no idea of the kind of investment this would take in terms of time and money, but is it beyond the realms of possibility to run code submitted to GitHub through a basic filter? Genuine question - I have no experience of systems at that scale. But the fact that Microsoft is able to replace URLs in emails with ones that redirect through their systems so they can block malware URLs makes me feel like it should be possible.

New comment by frereubu in "I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware"

frereubu — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:59:39 +0000

I think this is true in technical terms, but I have not seen a compelling description of what that looks like without it sounding like a real pain to manage.

Does anyone have a description of something manageable?

New comment by frereubu in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

frereubu — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:16:06 +0000

Would love a version of this on HN.

New comment by frereubu in "Fear about young adults' maturity is just a way of trying to control them (2023)"

frereubu — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:26:08 +0000

https://archive.is/l4X2V

Fear about young adults' maturity is just a way of trying to control them (2023)

frereubu — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:25:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2023/06/fear-about-young-adults-maturity-is-just-a-way-of-trying-to-control-them

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538763

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by frereubu in "Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire"

frereubu — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:57:45 +0000

This is great. One little bit of UI feedback: the green map clusters when zoomed in quite a bit aren't very obvious on green backgrounds - they merge into the background features a bit (e.g. in the very west of Scotland).

New comment by frereubu in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

frereubu — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:04:48 +0000

I think you're picking the wrong example. If I had some sticks, a bit of mud and a few leaves, whether or not I had Claude wouldn't make a difference to my ability to make a nuclear weapon. There are probably better examples of ways where unmediated AI might facilitate something horrible, although probably on a smaller scale.

New comment by frereubu in "The Future of Email"

frereubu — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:13:33 +0000

But there is an announcement, called "The Future of Email", which is a clickbait title that would be much better titled with the last header of the last paragraph: "Email is not going anywhere".

New comment by frereubu in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

frereubu — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:31:38 +0000

Looking at the comment thread you linked, this kinda looks like harassment by you rather than anything "confirmed". You seem to have an unhealthy fixation on this user, who may just be a Claude enthusiast rather than a shill as such.

New comment by frereubu in "Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses"

frereubu — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:59:00 +0000

We have a UK client in the healthcare industry who registered the domain clientname.healthcare, and they rapidly found that the NHS imposed regexes which rejected name@clientname.healthcare emails.

Aside from regexes though, I also think the new TLDs confuse quite a lot of people. name@clientname.healthcare just doesn't click as an email address as quickly as name@clientname.com, and I'm in tech so I'm sure it's much more confusing for people outside that space.

In fact, that reminds me that we built a site for another client for use inside an exhibition space which was spacename.house and against our advice they put that - without www or https:// - on exhibition panels for use on mobile phones. I am absolutely convinced that most people didn't realise it was a web address.

New comment by frereubu in "Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy"

frereubu — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:18:40 +0000

I'm not as sure as you about the result, but I do agree that the campaigning would be absolutely awful to go through, and would reopen a lot of really deep wounds on all sides. It's all very well saying you'd like to rejoin when someone asks you on the street, but an entirely different thing if there was a months-long campaign to have to get through.

New comment by frereubu in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

frereubu — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:41:35 +0000

They mean an attempt like this, but one that they manage to keep quiet and out of the press.

New comment by frereubu in "I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house"

frereubu — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:51:34 +0000

(To be clear, the "I" in the title is not me, the submitter - it's the title of the Reddit post).

I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house

frereubu — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:33:00 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1tvmcin/i_live_in_the_take_off_path_of_sfo_and_built_a/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383823

Points: 229

# Comments: 32

New comment by frereubu in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

frereubu — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:56:12 +0000

I find myself using the web UI because it's much faster than MacOS Mail, which often gets a bit stuck when downloading new emails via IMAP. I'd prefer to use a native app, but it happened without me thinking - I just ended up going for the fastest option unconsciously.

New comment by frereubu in "California’s university system went all in on AI, now it's tearing itself apart"

frereubu — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:45:44 +0000

If the NYT is the same as British newspapers, the person who wrote the article doesn't write the headline. It happens here too, and its really annoying because often the article has a much more nuanced picture than the headline would have you believe. In an era when people do read the article after reading the headline it's somewhat forgivable - getting someone's attention then they get the nuance, but in the internet era when people just read the headline it's anachronistic.

New comment by frereubu in "CSS-Native Parallax Effect"

frereubu — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:20:37 +0000

For people saying it's not working in any browser - do you have some kind of reduced motion preference setting turned on? I can imagine that would have an effect on something like this and it's definitely working in Chrome for me.

New comment by frereubu in "CSS-Native Parallax Effect"

frereubu — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:53:55 +0000

There's me scrolling up and down and thinking "hey, it's not working!" But it's behind a flag on Firefox: https://caniuse.com/?search=view-timeline-name

New comment by frereubu in "Show HN: Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text"

frereubu — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:43:43 +0000

The text on your site is cut off on both left and right on my iPhone 13 mini, and I can't zoom, so it's unreadable.

New comment by frereubu in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

frereubu — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:16:05 +0000

I'm sure this is quite a personal thing. I much prefer being in-person for that kind of interaction, and I don't think it's about efficiency as such, I just prefer being around people despite not being an extrovert - hybrid working is perfect for me.