Hacker News: maram

New comment by maram in "Apple 'Hide My Email' vulnerability reveals peoples' real email addresses"

maram — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:50:41 +0000

The post is about a vulnerability in Apple under CEO Tim Cook, who did horrible things after Steve Jobs died — most importantly, changing the UI/UX.

New comment by maram in "Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same"

maram — Sat, 25 May 2024 16:27:46 +0000

>>It's almost as if Google designed an algorithm update to specifically go after small bloggers. I've talked to so many people who've just had everything wiped out

While at the same time small businesses are being killed by the lockdown

New comment by maram in "96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers"

maram — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:50:12 +0000

It’s interesting how, most if not all, hospitals have switched to use Mychart https://www.mychart.org!

Sensitive US military emails spill online

maram — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 17:51:33 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34884252

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Elon Musk “ESG is the devil”

maram — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 07:17:21 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596963130873065472

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34424229

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by maram in "[dead]"

maram — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 07:07:13 +0000

>>could be an amazing move towards transparency and encouraging better corporate behaviour.

What about small and family businesses? Did you read Marc Andreeseen tweets linking to communism?

New comment by maram in "Apple changed how reading books works in iOS 16"

maram — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 20:05:30 +0000

>>The page turn animation was truly excellent.

iPhone iOS design used to be excellent. Since Apple switched to flat design, it was very clear that they were heading toward this path. I wrote about it in 2016: “ I predict that the technological disparity will increase dramatically. Most of the efforts that Steve Jobs put to “push the human race forward,” by making tech products easy-to-use to everyone, will be wasted.”

https://medium.com/@maram5/could-the-iphone-sales-decline-be...

New comment by maram in "Redfin cuts 13% of staff, shuts down home-flipping business"

maram — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 18:13:20 +0000

>>shuts down home-flipping businesses

Did the story mention why?

New comment by maram in "Up to 30% of online reviews are fake and consumers can't tell the difference"

maram — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 03:42:27 +0000

I thought of an app for this after I noticed high paying users "Very Important Beauty Insider" fake reviews on Sephora. I tweeted to them and they replied, https://twitter.com/maram5e/status/1123360104596811777?s=20

A year later, NYtimes published a story on how one of the highest selling products was telling her employees to write reviews. https://twitter.com/maram5e/status/1218339532891983873?s=20

I wrote on here https://twitter.com/maram5e/status/1130299513011343366 service/product reviews are the new ads.

-- Amazon reviews Groupon reviews Sephora reviews Booking com reviews This is the beginning..we are entering a new whole world of decentralized power and brand authority. It's interesting to watch how big brands will continue to fight it.

New comment by maram in "Signal is secure, as proven by hackers"

maram — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 21:33:18 +0000

>>From my standpoint, software that requires that, is honeypot.

I couldn’t agree more. In August this story was trending here using basic 101 growth hacking tactics https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28340542

Trace the source. The account got deleted from Reddit.

New comment by maram in "Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B"

maram — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 06:23:24 +0000

Everyone should remember that the blog Steve Jobs wrote criticizing Adobes security was deleted at the start of the pandemic in June, 2020.

From the blog “Symantec recently highlighted Flash for having one of the worst security records in 2009. We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash. We have been working with Adobe to fix these problems, but they have persisted for several years now. We don’t want to reduce the reliability and security of our iPhones, iPods and iPads by adding Flash.“

Here is the discussion we had https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23654011

New comment by maram in "Welcome Home, Garry Tan"

maram — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 16:17:44 +0000

Not to defend Thiel, but don’t you think that his exist from Facebook (after 17 years) because of the stance they took at the beginning of the pandemic is worthy of some attention?

Specially, that Facebook suffocated voices of Trump’s advisors who opposed the lockdown.

“Social media, particularly Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, was actively suffocating voices, including mine, that dissented from the accepted COVID narrative. By August, Facebook told the Washington Post they had taken down seven million posts “for spreading coronavirus misinformation.” Meanwhile, Wikipedia crafted smears and distortions of my background and then locked it to edits”. —Dr. Scott Atlas, A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America

New comment by maram in "Welcome Home, Garry Tan"

maram — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 14:54:38 +0000

“Garry Tan is a moral canary in a coal mine. When people hate on Garry Tan, they out themselves as either evil or stupid, because in fact Garry is as close to a 100% good guy as you get”. —Paul Graham https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1460931338131890180 ————

Congratulations Garry! Your blogs were my inspirations when I was running my startup. I always remember this line:

“The ideal startup team involves really two major roles — builder, and hustler. I used to say it took three roles (designer, engineer, hustler).....In reality, I think designer / engineer can be abstracted to builder”.

New comment by maram in "Librarian's Letter to Google Security"

maram — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 13:12:55 +0000

>> There simply must be a way to change how Google handles two-factor authentication which does not constantly lock out poor people who use the public library to access their email. It must be possible to make it so we do not constantly reach these dead-ends where Google tells patrons to endlessly loop through “I don’t have my phone” and “Try another way” until their account becomes locked permanently due to too many failed attempts.

Why is Google making it hard for the poor to access their email in these times?

it’s not like google just launched today. They have the data of these users, who use internet from public libraries.

New comment by maram in "Americans are drowning in spam"

maram — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 15:32:13 +0000

>> Hey email solved this problem for me for email and I want an equivalent type of service for phone and text, now.

I’ve been using Hey for two years now, and while it solved the spam problem, the UIUX makes it just so hard to use.

I’m keeping for one reason, it’s the shortest email I have.

New comment by maram in "What hacking AOL taught a generation of programmers"

maram — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:05:51 +0000

This is a funny story I read on hacking AOL messenger.

https://twitter.com/davidbyttow/status/1099112484974125056

Noam Chomsky: “We’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history”

maram — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 14:41:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newstatesman.com/encounter/2022/04/noam-chomsky-were-approaching-the-most-dangerous-point-in-human-history

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30932508

Points: 105

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New comment by maram in "Thanks HN for keeping it free of ads and trackers"

maram — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:04:45 +0000

Kudos to the silent heroes who are running it.

HN is indeed a rare place on the web.

New comment by maram in "Why Can’t I Leave a Three-Person iMessage Conversation?"

maram — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 21:59:18 +0000

>>If Leave this Conversation is grayed out on your iPhone, there are only three participants in the iMessage conversation, and you can’t convert a three-person iMessage conversation to an iMessage between two people. >> Even if you delete the entire conversation from your iPhone, you will be added back to the group the next time someone sends a message. The only way to leave a three-person iMessage conversation is to add someone else to the group so it becomes a four-person conversation: Then you can leave.

Why Can’t I Leave a Three-Person iMessage Conversation?

maram — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 21:59:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.payetteforward.com/iphone-leave-this-conversation-grayed-out-missing-fix/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28822365

Points: 28

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