Hacker News: mtmail

New comment by mtmail in "It's set up, not setup: Scraping GitHub for grammar errors"

mtmail — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:37:35 +0000

Next up: Referer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer#Etymology

New comment by mtmail in "What do you NOT like about Cursor / VSCode / Claude Code desktop / Codex / etc.?"

mtmail — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:53:53 +0000

It already has too many features and the author keeps adding more. Timers, notifications, additional notifications to tell me about new features he added. It (the sandboxes in soloterm) don't work well with my virtual machines, I'm sure it's my setup, in general sandboxes are good approach. All seems geared towards coding 24/7 and multiple agents on the same code base. Meanwhile even if code in parallel it's usually separate projects, separate languages. I can imagine you don't want to hear "less features" and look for more features to add instead.

New comment by mtmail in "What do you NOT like about Cursor / VSCode / Claude Code desktop / Codex / etc.?"

mtmail — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:17:21 +0000

One step back might be to figure out of the target use has dozens worktrees. I never used worktrees for example

New comment by mtmail in "What do you NOT like about Cursor / VSCode / Claude Code desktop / Codex / etc.?"

mtmail — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:15:10 +0000

soloterm.com is based on Tauri and uses less memory. It might not be your bottleneck but memory usage adds up with many projects and virtual machine. Not everybody wants to run their virtual machines in the cloud.

New comment by mtmail in "245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping"

mtmail — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:32:20 +0000

Usual estimate is 10TB of compressed text-only. So 24x LoC would fit on the drive.

New comment by mtmail in "The $5 Drone Killer"

mtmail — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:38:14 +0000

How is the $5 calculated? It's in the title but not article text or the press release it's based on.

New comment by mtmail in "Archive.today used vistor's browsers to DDoS, and modified archive contents"

mtmail — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:23:11 +0000

"Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006

"Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805

"Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?" "I noticed this, like, 3 days ago) started automatically making requests to someone's personal blog on their CAPTCHA page" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740

New comment by mtmail in "Ask HN: Why am I unable to post Show HN?"

mtmail — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:12:50 +0000

It's been restricted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300329 Too many people create an account to post a 'Show HN', then never come back, often don't even reply to comments/feedback. LLM/AI use has made it worse. The community struggles with 20 Show HN submissions per hour.

> isn't able to submit this site

I haven't seen this error message before. It looks like "this site" was submitted before?

New comment by mtmail in "Freelancers Not Delivering"

mtmail — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:54:38 +0000

Not sure why it would need to be AI-powered. Escrow services already exist.

New comment by mtmail in "HappyHorse AI – AI-Powered Equestrian Training"

mtmail — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:29:51 +0000

Looks like fake testimonials (https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/women/1.jpg) and thus lost trust in the rest of the page, too.

New comment by mtmail in "Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable"

mtmail — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:15:11 +0000

You followed the correct reporting instructions.

https://www.fiverr.com/.well-known/security.txt only has "Contact: security@fiverr.com" and in their help pages they say "Fiverr operates a Bug Bounty program in collaboration with BugCrowd. If you discover a vulnerability, please reach out to security@fiverr.com to receive information about how to participate in our program."

New comment by mtmail in "What About Website Form Outreach"

mtmail — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:23:06 +0000

We're on the receiving end of contact form spam (I think that's the correct term) from similar tools. They already exist and we hate every one of them.

New comment by mtmail in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

mtmail — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:03:50 +0000

Fineprint says it's Stripe. My (european) credit card worked fine.

New comment by mtmail in "I built this after months of using agents daily and hitting the same wall"

mtmail — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:34:53 +0000

Can you add the URL?

New comment by mtmail in "ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight"

mtmail — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:27:06 +0000

Galaxy Note 7 was a notable exception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Note_7#Battery_...

New comment by mtmail in "Show HN: Room Service – understand what's filling your Mac"

mtmail — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:16:28 +0000

Do you have a link?

New comment by mtmail in "[dead]"

mtmail — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:39:00 +0000

See the FAQ on 'Can I post a job ad?'

New comment by mtmail in "Attempts to post the latest Trivy security incident have been marked [dead]"

mtmail — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:15:13 +0000

Looks like the repository URL was marked [dead] for several years, I can't tell why. Best to email the moderator (link in footer).

Big security stories often get republished, one might say reviewed and filtered. For this story I see

opensourcemalware.com - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449498

stepsecurity.io - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451081

arstechnica.com - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47464996

and 4 others.

New comment by mtmail in "Ask HN: Should AI agents be allowed to spend money autonomously?"

mtmail — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:36:28 +0000

Is the question genuine and serious? I mean you've built a system for agents to spend money ("Show HN: I built a wallet system for AI agents") https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47438164"

New comment by mtmail in "GitHub permanently banned my account for using Actions to validate VPN nodes"

mtmail — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:13:16 +0000

> Under GDPR Article 20

Why GDPR. Didn't you say you're from Russia?

> DPO request unanswered beyond automated ticket

GDPR allows companies 30 days to answer, or telling you they need more time to answer.

> FTC complaint filed

Why FTC. Didn't you say you're from Russia?

> Filed formal legal appeal (7 pages)

I'm guessing the pages were largely AI generated?

> This is, de facto, theft of intellectual property.

At this point I'm laughing and wonder which AI lawyer gave the confidence to suggest that.

> No export. No backup.

Having no backups is hardly the provider's fault.

> Project migrated to GitLab

That sounds like you have the code at least and can recreate the data.