Hacker News: motti

New comment by motti in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

motti — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:40:34 +0000

You can take along a battery pack with usb-c and charge the macbook.

New comment by motti in "OpenAI shuts down its AI Classifier due to poor accuracy"

motti — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 22:45:46 +0000

If it's sophisticatedly rewritten then it's no longer AI generated

New comment by motti in "Tell HN: Vim users, `:x` is like `:wq` but writes only when changes are made"

motti — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 00:06:02 +0000

It does. Cmd-Shift-/ and start typing

New comment by motti in "Ask HN: What are some of the best job boards you have seen (any industry)?"

motti — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 13:47:26 +0000

http://www.indeed.co.uk has a very clean craigslist-like style which I find a joy to use when recruiting.

New comment by motti in "Ask HN: Google Doc email virus?"

motti — Wed, 03 May 2017 21:57:17 +0000

Changing your password is the fastest way to ensure all authed sessions on any device is logged out. Google offers a "log out of any sessions" button somewhere in account settings, but most other services don't.

If your email account is compromised, any service that do password resets via email confirmation, are potentially compromised by whoever has access to your email via OAuth.

New comment by motti in "OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock"

motti — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 12:53:01 +0000

We at CopyCopy (a cross-platform cloud clipboard) solve this problem by only universally copying stuff that you copy twice.

So:

copy once -> not sent to cloud/devices

copy twice (or click floating button) -> sent to all your devices and cloud account

New comment by motti in "OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock"

motti — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 01:53:50 +0000

Indeed, WHATWG is currently considering [1] a related scenario where rogue websites with access to the clipboard will inject formats with dodgy payload to exploit flaws in some app if the user pastes.

[1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1244

UberRUSH API – Add on-demand delivery to your app or service

motti — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 15:52:15 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.uber.com/docs/rush

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11870198

Points: 183

# Comments: 88

Zoekt – Fast trigram based code search

motti — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 14:28:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/google/zoekt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822683

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by motti in "High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name contains “user”"

motti — Tue, 17 May 2016 13:15:48 +0000

Windows itself leaves the c:\users\ path as it was first set, even if you rename the username.

New comment by motti in "Ask HN: Anyone making a living off of desktop applications?"

motti — Mon, 09 May 2016 23:03:22 +0000

We (copycopy.com), do.

Atm we use a mix of QtQuick/QML and some widget code mainly when wrapping QtWebKit it for some parts of the app furniture that need it.

Although the guts of our app requires native code (for clipboard monitoring and websocket message receiving), were considering ditching much of the UI in favour of a webapp.

New comment by motti in "Uber wants access to browsing history, bookmarks, and running apps"

motti — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 21:51:57 +0000

With Marshmallow, you can just turn off or deny certain permissions. So for most people who really want to run the Uber app, the question is really whether it runs OK without all these permissions.

New comment by motti in "What It’s Like to ‘Wake Up’ from Autism After Magnetic Stimulation"

motti — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 13:59:42 +0000

My mother published a fairly seminal paper on the topic [1] 18 years ago which concludes that emotional awareness (specifically, the "Theory of Mind"[2]) can be learned by people with Autism.

At the time this was against prevailing wisdom but AFAIK is now considered accepted wisdom.

[1] https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?cluster=165456960940191... [2] https://www.autism.com/understanding_theoryofmind

New comment by motti in "Abandoning Gitflow and GitHub in favour of Gerrit"

motti — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 23:53:21 +0000

It does. Dependant changes/commits can be pushed at once, and if they are submitted out of order, they will be queued until the dependant changes are submitted/merged. In recent gertit releases, you can even submit (merge) all changes in a particular topic at once.

New comment by motti in "Qt 5.6.0 released"

motti — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 21:54:56 +0000

They announced a start-up/small business plan [1] of $49/month.

[1] http://www.qt.io/start-up-plan/

New comment by motti in "Never buy Epson printers"

motti — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 23:28:52 +0000

The Brother color lasers also are happy to print without color toner cartridges present.

By contrast, HP's cheaper color lasers require the cartridges to be present, and if they run out and are left in the machine, they cause banding over your printouts. This is due to their integrated drums wearing out, so you have to replace the color toners even if they're not being used (or hack around with transferring chips onto less-used old cartridges, even black ones so they're seen as colour ones).

New comment by motti in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)"

motti — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 01:11:50 +0000

CopyCopy, London, UK | REMOTE or ONSITE | UX/Graphics Designer and/or Frontend Coder

CopyCopy is a young, cosy, startup currently launching a consumer productivity app.

The ideal candidate would be comfortable:

• Mocking up beautiful compelling usable designs

• Undertaking user research both with on-site interviews and via data-driven analytics

• Have experience in user research for deciding good UX based on actual data.

• Have a ability to dream up good UX and get in the minds of users

• Not afraid to do frontend coding to create engaging interactive design for our webapp.

Brownie points if:

• Your a great graphics designer who can draw up custom illustrations

• You're not afraid to create rich properties for native UI platforms like Android, iOS or Qt QML.

• You're comfortable with Git and other such geekery

Prefer on-site in our London office but may consider remote applications for the right candidate as long as you're located +/-3 hours from London (GMT) timezone.

Terms negotiable: long-term contract or employment.

Just email a CV to jobs@copycopy.cc

New comment by motti in "Ask HN: Evernote alternatives for research?"

motti — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 08:38:47 +0000

You're right, and thanks for the feedback.

We thought animations would be good enough but people do like to see the real live thing. Here's a live demo, albeit one with rather poor sound and editing: https://vimeo.com/140990404. Password is "disrupt".

New comment by motti in "Ask HN: Evernote alternatives for research?"

motti — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 01:17:37 +0000

Try CopyCopy. We do bookmarking and article saving but more broadly let you keep anything for later just by copying it (using normal copy and paste). So we handle not just web articles, but any information that's copyable in any app! See https://www.copycopy.com/

If our homepage isn't clear enough, check out https://www.copycopy.com/product (excuse the unfinished wording on that page as it's not live yet).

You can go to https://www.copycopy.com/account and turn on experimental features which will enable tags (called "labels"). From our webapp https://www.copycopy.com/clips you can search clips, or filter them by label.

Oh, and we're quietly releasing our Mac OSX app tomorrow.

New comment by motti in "Mimic – abusing Unicode to create tragedy"

motti — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:08:42 +0000

This sort of stuff can be the basis for many XSS attacks, see http://websec.github.io/unicode-security-guide/character-tra...

For instance, \u2329, \uFE64, \uFF1C and \u3008 can be best-fitted automatically to \u003C (the regular '<' mark in HTML)