Hacker News: mfi

New comment by mfi in "The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't"

mfi — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:47:47 +0000

The article was well written, really enjoyed it and I learned something as a Swiss citizen using this outlet every day! But I agree with the other commenters, I would replace the AI generated images with something else, they drag drown the articles credibility IMO

New comment by mfi in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

mfi — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:50:57 +0000

I work the email security company xorlab[0], where my colleagues and I did a thorough analysis of real subscription/email bombing waves that we saw at our customers[1].

Here are some interesting additional information from the attacks we analyzed:

* Email bombing as a service is a thing, where you can buy 10,000 credits for $10 and easily bomb target inboxes with over 2000 emails per hour.

* Most all email bombing attacks starts in the morning, between 8-10.

* Most common day of attack is Friday

[0] https://www.xorlab.com/en/

[1] https://www.xorlab.com/en/blog/from-chaos-to-control-insight...

Insights from 24 real subscription/email bombing waves

mfi — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:46:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.xorlab.com/en/blog/from-chaos-to-control-insights-from-24-email-bombing-waves

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47610796

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mfi in "How long does it take to get last liquid drops from kitchen containers?"

mfi — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:46:13 +0000

A bit of cold water on a hot pan isn't a problem, but one should be a bit careful when pouring a lot cold water on hot pans, as they can warp

One UCLA Computer Scientist Keeps Digital Clocks Ticking (2022)

mfi — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:11:20 +0000

Article URL: https://samueli.ucla.edu/time-zone-king-how-one-ucla-computer-scientist-keeps-digital-clocks-ticking/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167982

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mfi in "GitLab: Active Incident Around Website, API, CI/CD"

mfi — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:01:49 +0000

Issue tracked here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/work_ite...

GitLab: Active Incident Around Website, API, CI/CD

mfi — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:01:49 +0000

Article URL: https://status.gitlab.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46510169

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New Phishing Wave Exploits Google's Application Integration Service

mfi — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:53:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.xorlab.com/en/blog/new-phishing-wave-exploits-googles-application-integration-service

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46244158

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers

mfi — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 07:50:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-democracy/zurich-voters-ban-petrol-powered-leaf-blowers/90082192

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45488729

Points: 125

# Comments: 137

New comment by mfi in "Volvo delivers 5,000th electric semi"

mfi — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 13:43:38 +0000

Volvo Trucks is a different company than Volco Cars, and has nothing to do with Geely

Show HN: Stream any RCA (e.g. vinyl) to your Sonos system using a RPi

mfi — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:59:39 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/maxvfischer/sonos-streaming

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43324471

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mfi in "How Deepseek R1 Was Trained"

mfi — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:12:08 +0000

Deepseek R1 paper that the blogpost is written around: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12948

From chaos to control: Insights from 24 email bombing waves

mfi — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 18:07:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.xorlab.com/en/blog/from-chaos-to-control-insights-from-24-email-bombing-waves

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42443620

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Lead pollution in Greenland ice indicates plagues, wars and imperial expansion

mfi — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 20:53:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1721818115

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42259656

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun Won the Nobel Prize for Work on MicroRNA

mfi — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 10:07:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/07/nobel-prize-in-medicine-awarded-to-scientists-for-work-on-microrna-victor-ambros-gary-ruvkun

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41764453

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Phishing on GitHub: A Sophisticated Attack Leveraging Brand Trust

mfi — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:15:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.xorlab.com/en/blog/phishing-on-github

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41598750

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mfi in "GitHub notification emails used to send malware"

mfi — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:14:35 +0000

This has happened for a while. In February of this year, the same attack vector was used in an attack to trick developers into thinking that they'd got a job offer from GitHub: https://www.xorlab.com/en/blog/phishing-on-github

New comment by mfi in "Ask HN: What are some "toy" projects you used to learn neural networks hands-on?"

mfi — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 21:38:19 +0000

This is a while back, but I designed and built an AI-art installation from scratch, where I trained a GAN network to generate abstract art. The generated images was shown on a Samsung The Frame, and below the screen was a button. If you pushed the button, a new and unique piece was generated and shown on the screen.

If you're interested in doing something similar, I wrote an extensive guide of how to build it here: https://github.com/maxvfischer/DIY-ai-art.

The guide doesn't include the ML part, so that you will have to learn on your own and integrate into the project :)

New comment by mfi in "Show HN: How to build your own CNC-machine from scratch"

mfi — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 06:50:07 +0000

I think, it total, I spend around $1100, but then I also paid for fast shipping. I think you get get that number down quite a lot by being more careful in the sourcing :)

Show HN: How to build your own CNC-machine from scratch

mfi — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 18:33:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/maxvfischer/DIY-CNC-machine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40731105

Points: 50

# Comments: 4