Hacker News: fron

New comment by fron in "Verizon outages reported across U.S."

fron — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:55:04 +0000

Many (most?) services offer a choice between SMS 2FA and no 2FA. It's not always so easy.

New comment by fron in "Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway"

fron — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 01:22:50 +0000

"Never attribute to incompetence that which can be attributed to malice" or something.

Clearly automatic beds have some degree of embedded software. The decision to put the controls in the cloud was certainly a conscious one.

New comment by fron in "GitHub Is Down"

fron — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:45:06 +0000

Yeah SSO is down for me too

New comment by fron in "[dead]"

fron — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 03:22:12 +0000

Come back if/when it gets announced. Until then, this is just clickbait nonsense

New comment by fron in "Show HN: TSDiagram – Diagrams as Code with TypeScript"

fron — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 13:48:26 +0000

That's super cool! Is there a way to save the editor and diagram state into a URL hash so we can share tsdiagram links with others, similar to how the TypeScript Playground works?

New comment by fron in "Apollo Back end just made public"

fron — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 12:11:51 +0000

It's more than likely that they'll inject their own softball questions and focus on those instead of addressing everyone's concerns in any meaningful way.

New comment by fron in "Atomic Wallet exploited, users report loss of entire portfolios"

fron — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 02:48:35 +0000

How many times does this have to happen before people learn that cryptocurrency is not a good place to park money?

New comment by fron in "Nike.com allows easy account take over"

fron — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 17:04:18 +0000

Can't you just call in and change it back then?

New comment by fron in "FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting"

fron — Wed, 25 May 2022 21:53:21 +0000

WebAuthn should be the default

New comment by fron in "The math prodigy whose hack upended DeFi won’t return funds"

fron — Mon, 23 May 2022 22:30:34 +0000

"Libertarians are like house cats: absolutely convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand."

No idea who said this originally but it continues to be true. Abandon the system, and they find it was there for a reason.

New comment by fron in "Ask HN: Software Developer vs. Software Engineer"

fron — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 13:08:35 +0000

There's no difference at all, at least in the US. The two job titles are entirely synonymous. Anyone who tries to argue otherwise is just lying to themselves to feel smarter.

New comment by fron in "It is difficult for the average person to conceive of how useless NFTs are"

fron — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 13:44:24 +0000

Only because the NFT marketplace is just the Greater Fool Theory at work.

New comment by fron in "Sorry Safari Team"

fron — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:19:15 +0000

If the Safari team could get their shit together and ship all the features they're missing that other browsers have supported for years, then perhaps I'd have more sympathy.

All I see here is that Safari still sucks in terms of feature support and developer experience.

New comment by fron in "Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time"

fron — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 20:09:32 +0000

> but the idea of having to learn different language constructs for loops and the like doesn't seem that herculean of a task.

I agree. As long as you understand the basic concepts, it's only a matter of learning the syntax, which is really not as big of a deal as the person you replied to is making it out to be.

New comment by fron in "The Facebook Logout – We're over Facebook"

fron — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 16:53:27 +0000

Yeah, just log out! That'll force them to pay attention! /s

This idea could not possibly be more worthless. Delete your account if you don't like Facebook. Otherwise stop crying about it

New comment by fron in "The NSA and CIA use ad blockers"

fron — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 16:54:16 +0000

Same. I even have wireguard set up on my phone so my phone's internet connection is pihole-enabled wherever I am

New comment by fron in "Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?"

fron — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 19:28:07 +0000

The choices are to accept Windows w/ ads, or reject Windows altogether

It's not about being ok with it, it's about only having the nuclear option, switching OS entirely, as the alternative

New comment by fron in "Van Buren is a victory against overbroad interpretations of the CFAA"

fron — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 20:14:34 +0000

> then that person cannot be held criminally liable for anything they do with access to that system, even if the owner explicitly prohibits it.

They would not be criminally liable under CFAA, but they can absolutely be charged with other crimes in such a circumstance

New comment by fron in "When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet"

fron — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 20:43:24 +0000

It's truly unfortunate. I would love to try the Quest 2, I've heard some pretty great things.

The requirement to have a Facebook account makes it a complete nonstarter by itself. The fact that I can get locked out of my hardware that I purchased because Facebook's software decides my account isn't 'legit' enough? Gonna be a serious nope from me.

New comment by fron in "Pair Locking Your iPhone"

fron — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:09:19 +0000

Easy to say when you haven't been detained for 12+ hours. They don't care if you're a U.S. citizen when they can just decide the law is optional. Safest solution is to just backup, wipe, enter the country, then restore.