<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: hellbanner</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hellbanner</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:22:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=hellbanner" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[Ask HN: Help with Cloudflare/Google Catch-22 hell]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I took over IT for a client. As the final step in the process, in the Google Admin Portal, I reset the password for the admin account.<p>This is the same account I've made hundreds of connections with in the last several weeks - Google has my IP and access history.<p>Now, I'm locked out - I cannot use the password I changed. Google wants a recovery code or 2FA. The  2FA is not on the IT phone given to me by the company and receiving messages is not an option.<p>I began trying to verify the domain with google, which needs cloudflare access. Cloudflare login needs a 2FA which - again - is unavailable.<p>I am in contact with the business owner who is willing to provide all necessary information - billing records, photo id, etc.<p>How can I talk to a PERSON at either of these companies?<p>I tried Google's chat feature and the site has an error when I submit the form.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42637803">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42637803</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 19:52:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42637803</link><dc:creator>hellbanner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42637803</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42637803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: The Twine]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://pippinbarr.github.io/lets-play-ancient-greek-punishment-the-twine/">https://pippinbarr.github.io/lets-play-ancient-greek-punishment-the-twine/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20716219">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20716219</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2019 15:36:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://pippinbarr.github.io/lets-play-ancient-greek-punishment-the-twine/</link><dc:creator>hellbanner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20716219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20716219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hellbanner in "Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>learn the meaningful stuff, you will never code in your job
implying the code that can be thrown away is the code they get paid for
hmmmm</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:47:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20705668</link><dc:creator>hellbanner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20705668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20705668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hellbanner in "A Novel Concept: Silent Book Clubs Offer Introverts a Space to Socialize"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The idea began with two friends reading together at a bar in San Francisco, annoyed by the assigned reading of a demanding book club.
Because everything was invented in San Francisco in the last 20 years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2019 17:25:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20697757</link><dc:creator>hellbanner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20697757</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20697757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hellbanner in "YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTIONS
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdaPJLJCK1M" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdaPJLJCK1M</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2019 19:12:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20347609</link><dc:creator>hellbanner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20347609</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20347609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hellbanner in "Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Touch screens are awful for operating while you focus elsewhere.
I miss touch typing and I sure like adjusting car controls without looking away.
What's that, trust driverless cars you say? Never, and the basilisk be damned.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2019 00:01:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20252420</link><dc:creator>hellbanner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20252420</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20252420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hellbanner in "YouTube’s Algorithm Incentivizes the Wrong Behavior"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdaPJLJCK1M&t=6s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdaPJLJCK1M&t=6s</a>
remember that anyone can manipulate these algorithms</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:03:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20185735</link><dc:creator>hellbanner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20185735</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20185735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hellbanner in "WeWork Files for IPO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You forgot the rest of the title.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2019 14:40:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797400</link><dc:creator>hellbanner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797400</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hellbanner in "Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fantastic tutorial: <a href="http://learnyousomeerlang.com/book" rel="nofollow">http://learnyousomeerlang.com/book</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:26:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18656905</link><dc:creator>hellbanner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18656905</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18656905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hellbanner in "Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's mostly it.
Personally I find Elixir's syntax confusing. For example:<p>Losing the ; and . function endings from Erlang you can put same-named functions throughout your module. I tried doing<p>def create
def handle(:create)<p>def update
def handle(:update)<p>But the compiler warns. So that loss isn't helpful.<p>Atoms require a : because variable names are lowercase.<p>Uppercase variable names and lowercase module names is easier to read in Erlang.<p>The syntactic sugar is too clever for readability imo.<p>The package management through mix is decent. I used to use an erlang.mk file, looking at hex it looks like the Erlang ecosystem is quite evolved.<p>Phoenix + Ecto seem to be very actively maintained, useful if you're writing web apps.<p>When I tried Cowboy a few years ago some of the documentation was out of date, so that's a point in Elixir's favor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:25:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18656892</link><dc:creator>hellbanner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18656892</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18656892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hellbanner in "Madoff’s Victims Are Close to Getting Their $19B Back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well at least you aren't mad enough to revolt because then change might occur. Ah right, revolt is impossible due to economic conditions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2018 14:35:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18648154</link><dc:creator>hellbanner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18648154</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18648154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hellbanner in "Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hah. I interviewed for a [growing in popularity and market share] top 20 cryptocoin. They had some curious choice of words in their "freelance" contract, notably that it would use German copyright law to transfer rights of all inventions I ever made.<p>I pointed out that a couple of the phrases in the contract, when combined, indicated they would have IP rights to EVERYTHING I did not just work they paid me for.<p>They moved on to another candidate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 23:54:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18614000</link><dc:creator>hellbanner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18614000</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18614000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hellbanner in "Cambridge Analytica Used Fashion Tastes to Identify Right-Wing Voters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Source?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2018 19:57:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18578577</link><dc:creator>hellbanner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18578577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18578577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hellbanner in "US asks allies to drop Huawei"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Frog in the boiling pot</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2018 18:37:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18518134</link><dc:creator>hellbanner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18518134</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18518134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hellbanner in "Suicide increasing among American workers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gee, I wonder if this has anything to do with the pay discrepancy between CEOs, investors and us wage slaves.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:48:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18463736</link><dc:creator>hellbanner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18463736</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18463736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hellbanner in "Facebook chooses Canada for Dating feature launch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Didn't Facebook apps used to include dating apps that would use your social graph?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2018 22:16:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18418520</link><dc:creator>hellbanner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18418520</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18418520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hellbanner in "Show HN: Space invaders, but the invaders evolve with genetic algorithm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cool stuff.
Check out Quantum Pilot where the enemies literally mirror your previously recorded actions. Steam / Android / iOS</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2018 21:23:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18341398</link><dc:creator>hellbanner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18341398</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18341398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hellbanner in "A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you shut down SMS? I recently have been bombarded with SMS from varying numbers, they all use the same $NAME</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2018 00:07:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18205570</link><dc:creator>hellbanner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18205570</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18205570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hellbanner in "Stellar Smart Contracts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="http://arewedecentralizedyet.com/" rel="nofollow">http://arewedecentralizedyet.com/</a>
95% centralized</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2018 13:02:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18184416</link><dc:creator>hellbanner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18184416</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18184416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hellbanner in "Stripe has democratised online payments and reshaped the digital economy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looped in with IP Infringement, regulated or illegal products and services
> Adult content and services 	Pornography and other obscene materials (including literature, imagery and other media); sites offering any sexually-related services such as prostitution, escorts, pay-per view, adult live chat features 
> Products or services that are otherwise prohibited by our financial partners
Video game or virtual world credits 	Sale of in-game currency unless the merchant is the operator of the virtual world</p>
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