Hacker News: jsdevtom

New comment by jsdevtom in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

jsdevtom — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:29:17 +0000

If I have access to the UI, I don't need to break your encryption.

Open AI Outages 10th June 2025

jsdevtom — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:29:15 +0000

Article URL: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01JXCAW3K3JAE0EP56AEZ7CBG3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44234538

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Why do companies implement GEO-based login checks?

jsdevtom — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:34:45 +0000

As someone who often travels, I find myself locked out of services such as GitLab because I'm trying to authenticate in another country.

Is it really that unusual?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32549597

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by jsdevtom in "Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond, then charged €150"

jsdevtom — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 15:16:49 +0000

Today I learned for the 7th time, never to go with Godaddy.

New comment by jsdevtom in "Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites"

jsdevtom — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 20:40:07 +0000

We've built multiple websites with Astro.js, including customer facing ones such as bustinger.com, and love it.

Simple to use, blazing fast results. JSX. Use another framework you like inside it (e.g. React, svelte).

New comment by jsdevtom in "Show HN: Bustinger – Bust YouTube spam comments automatically"

jsdevtom — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 06:45:17 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by jsdevtom in "Show HN: Bustinger – Bust YouTube spam comments automatically"

jsdevtom — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 12:18:39 +0000

Thanks, we couldn't stand by idly any longer while people are getting scammed out of their life savings.

Show HN: Bustinger – Bust YouTube spam comments automatically

jsdevtom — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 11:55:37 +0000

We're soft launching Bustinger . A SaaS to automatically remove YouTube spam.

Our irresistible offer is: "Use Bustinger free for 14 days and watch your spam comments disappear."

Context: YouTubers are being bombarded with YouTube spam. One YouTuber reported their viewer was scammed out of £70k (~$85k) and another "out of their life savings".

We were considering the idea weeks ago and had we executed then, we would have saved these families such despair .

We're not standing by idly any longer. We're going to save families from losing their hard earning money.

Bustinger is here to bust YouTube spam.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32317486

Points: 7

# Comments: 4

New comment by jsdevtom in "Ask HN: I'm in a rut. How did you get out of yours?"

jsdevtom — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 17:42:37 +0000

Take on more responsibility. Specifically say yes to something you want to do but are scared of. Like starting a business or getting a dog.

Ask HN: How to do rolling deployments without Kubernetes?

jsdevtom — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 07:51:21 +0000

Every month, there seems to be a new post stating ~"don't use Kubernetes yet", but what should we use instead if we cannot have downtime?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31797206

Points: 18

# Comments: 18

New comment by jsdevtom in "Don't use Kubernetes yet"

jsdevtom — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 06:12:06 +0000

What about if you need rolling deployments?

New comment by jsdevtom in "Ask HN: Why do various new accounts keep getting blocked?"

jsdevtom — Mon, 16 May 2022 13:36:30 +0000

I really have no idea what could even make sense. The cause I consider most likely is that they have a bias toward blocking new accounts, and only if you do display certain behaviours, will they not block you.

New comment by jsdevtom in "Ask HN: Why do various new accounts keep getting blocked?"

jsdevtom — Mon, 16 May 2022 13:34:27 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by jsdevtom in "Ask HN: Why do various new accounts keep getting blocked?"

jsdevtom — Mon, 16 May 2022 13:34:11 +0000

I went out of my way to turn it off before logging on to those sites. I thought it could also be because I religiously remove my cookies.

New comment by jsdevtom in "Ask HN: Why do various new accounts keep getting blocked?"

jsdevtom — Mon, 16 May 2022 13:33:00 +0000

What about young people who are new to the internet? Should we increase the cost of entry (or just flat out ban it) for them too for their lack of online reputation?

Ask HN: Why do various new accounts keep getting blocked?

jsdevtom — Mon, 16 May 2022 12:59:06 +0000

I've recently created a new facebook account as I needed it for facebook ads for my startup. I was never on it before. After placing the ad, I was immediately told, that the company can never post ads again without explanation.

After signing up to Stripe, verifying with my passport and selfies, they told me that the business account will be closed, stating they've "identified a high volume of unauthorized charges on your account". There have been NO charges on that account.

Twitter also blocked my account there shortly after creating it.

Do you have any idea what might be causing this? It feels like because I've had no public profile on the internet ever, I am being penalised for finally having to join to market my business.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31396476

Points: 3

# Comments: 14

New comment by jsdevtom in "Ask HN: Important nonobvious startup/business lessons you've learned?"

jsdevtom — Thu, 12 May 2022 10:41:37 +0000

Market before you build.

New comment by jsdevtom in "Ask HN: How to Make Passive Income?"

jsdevtom — Sat, 07 May 2022 16:30:20 +0000

I would change this to:

1. Find a profitable niche 2. See if you could market to said niche in a way where you have an unfair advantage. 3. If yes to 2, market and sell the product before you have it to ensure demand 4. Build the product.

New comment by jsdevtom in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

jsdevtom — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 10:15:52 +0000

https://jsdevtom.com

New comment by jsdevtom in "US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent"

jsdevtom — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 09:02:35 +0000

All these arguments about school times etc. My code would be eternally ridiculed if I mocked the Date object to artificially change the time, instead changing the time school started for certain months.