Hacker News: matteason

New comment by matteason in "Don't hijack my mouse pointer"

matteason — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:52:56 +0000

Google's design blog has a particularly egregious version of this: https://design.google/

The mouse blob morphs into the background of any buttons you hover over, which is technically impressive but annoying in practice

New comment by matteason in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

matteason — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:40:26 +0000

He posts on his Instagram to verify authenticity: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXwf7pis6KT

New comment by matteason in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

matteason — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:34:04 +0000

Anyone else getting the optical illusion of the fans spinning in your peripheral vision while reading the top paragraphs?

New comment by matteason in "Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga"

matteason — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:23:49 +0000

Cloudflare are very much pushing back: https://www.laliga.com/en-GB/news/official-statement-in-rela...

New comment by matteason in "Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga"

matteason — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:38:40 +0000

Context: last year LaLiga (top-level Spanish football league) obtained a court order compelling Spanish ISPs to block certain IPs during football matches, as those IPs have been associated with illegal streams of live matches. Many of those IPs are shared Cloudflare IPs, with the result being many legitimate sites become unavailable in Spain during LaLiga matches

https://cybernews.com/news/spain-laliga-streaming-piracy-cam...

New comment by matteason in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

matteason — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:12:01 +0000

They're here: https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/journey-to-the-moon/

Direct link to this image: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/art002e00019...

New comment by matteason in "Companies House flaw exposed 5M directors and enabled company hijacking"

matteason — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:03:45 +0000

Companies House statement here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/update-on-companies-house...

(Companies House maintain the official register of companies in the UK)

Companies House flaw exposed 5M directors and enabled company hijacking

matteason — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:02:03 +0000

Article URL: https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/03/13/companies-house-security-vulnerability-directors-addresses/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47399173

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by matteason in "Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam"

matteason — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:46:32 +0000

I'm seeing the same pattern, with the addition of diddy@ and epstein@, curiuosly

New comment by matteason in "Show HN: Built a course on buying small businesses – validating demand"

matteason — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:34:36 +0000

Please don't post sign-up pages for things that don't exist yet to Show HN, they're off topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

New comment by matteason in "Ask HN: QR code generator that doesn't require sign up"

matteason — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:59:07 +0000

Thank you for sharing! I made this one. Had the same problem as the OP, the Google results are full of junk, so I made it just so I had something reliable to use.

New comment by matteason in "Map of all the buildings in the world"

matteason — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:34:04 +0000

You have uBlock Origin or another ad blocker installed, their cookie banner disables scrolling but your ad blocker is blocking the cookie banner (same thing happened to me)

New comment by matteason in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

matteason — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:29:25 +0000

> Here’s the best part: the battery lasts for years

I wonder how many years?

> The battery lasts for up to years of average use.

...how many?

> a battery that lasts for years

How many years does the battery last?

> That’s up to 2 years of usage.

Ah.

I guess "2" is the absolute minimum that you could describe as "years".

It's a shame because it does look like an interesting proposition. It might be more compelling if it was "send your ring back to us for recycling - and we'll send you a new one". I doubt the economics would work at this price point though.

New comment by matteason in "How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)"

matteason — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:11:41 +0000

I have an 'Ambient Radio' channel on https://ambiph.one, my soundscape generator: https://ambiph.one/?m=1-Ambient+Radio-bf100

There are some great less-well-known artists on there - if you tap the album art it'll link you to their Bandcamp if they have one

New comment by matteason in "Rebecca Heineman has died"

matteason — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:46:36 +0000

Well the argument certainly wasn't "nobody dies of cancer in places with universal healthcare"

New comment by matteason in "Rebecca Heineman has died"

matteason — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:23:34 +0000

Something doesn't have to be perfect to be better

New comment by matteason in "If you are reading this obituary, it looks like I'm dead"

matteason — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:00:53 +0000

Mirror: https://archive.is/OpFMP

New comment by matteason in "Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect"

matteason — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:00:59 +0000

Are there any software-oriented licenses in the same spirit as CC BY-NC? I'm aware that it likely wouldn't be a true Open Source license if you completely prohibit commercial use, but I've looked for a license like that in the past and didn't have any luck

New comment by matteason in "What a Hacker Stole from Me"

matteason — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:11:28 +0000

He mentions in an earlier blog post [0] that the audio files are behind Cloudflare already so if Cloudflare did its job so I think the actual bandwidth impact on the origin server should have been pretty limited. Hopefully he'd turned on the option to ignore the query string to avoid the cache being bypassed.

I run a similar audio-heavy site [1] that's reached the front page of HN, also behind Cloudflare - the traffic spiking to terabytes a day is a bit of a shock at first but if everything's configured properly CF works well

[0] https://mynoise.net/blog.php#landed

[1] https://ambiph.one

New comment by matteason in "Show HN: Open-Source International Space Station Tracker ESP32/Arduino for $20"

matteason — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:18:23 +0000

Really neat! If you're interested in adding clouds to your basemap I built a service [0] which generates free, almost-live cloudmaps (with alpha channel or precomposited onto a Blue Marble image) as part of my own ISS tracker project

[0] https://github.com/matteason/live-cloud-maps