Hacker News: paulschreiber

New comment by paulschreiber in "ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline"

paulschreiber — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:31:32 +0000

What's weird is that they are still pointing at the Automattic (WordPress VIP) IP address and redirecting via a WP plugin. So the content is likely still there.

New comment by paulschreiber in "Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)"

paulschreiber — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:35:03 +0000

People are _still_ doing this shit. Unsubscribe links. Official government site. Fucking terrible.

New comment by paulschreiber in "Google DMARC Policy Changes?"

paulschreiber — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:43:08 +0000

I've seen "DMARC: 'PASS'" on Show Original for a long time (years?).

New comment by paulschreiber in "Amazon won't accept written communication"

paulschreiber — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 21:29:04 +0000

Per https://www.elliott.org/company-contacts/amazon/ you can email cs-escalations@amazon.com or an exec listed there.

New comment by paulschreiber in "Ask HN: How do I stop political SMS spam?"

paulschreiber — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:47:47 +0000

How are you answering? Is responding with STOP not working?

New comment by paulschreiber in "Show HN: We relaunched the Official MTA App for NYC public transit"

paulschreiber — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 21:08:10 +0000

This is great! Suggestion: it shows 10 trains per station, which means fewer stations per screen. Perhaps show the first 3 and show the rest under a disclosure? Or add a settings for this?

New comment by paulschreiber in "Show HN: We relaunched the Official MTA App for NYC public transit"

paulschreiber — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 03:33:21 +0000

Nice to see there are humans here!

- Going from the beta to the prod app erases all of my favorites

- many stations (like Atlantic Ave-Barclays) have to be added two or three times under favorites

- under nearby, each bus location is listed twice (one per direction, cluttering up the list)

- would love to see a view that showed me all trains from the nearest N (three? let me pick) stations, so I could decide which one to walk to — currently have to swipe/tap back and forth between multiple screens (which typically lose state/position)

- in settings, two menu items refer to AAR. I am sure 90% of the users don't know that's "Access-a-Ride"; there's also no way to turn that off for the people who don't use it

- contact us isn't integrated into SalesForce, so you have to re-enter your contact info each time, and there's no way to follow up on tickets from the app

- would be nice to have live chat to customer service (like you can via WhatsApp)

- if you enter text into the search field, then shrink the window height by dragging it to the bottom, you lose your search field contents

Product-wise, you are still structuring this around the physical infrastructure (what's at station XYZ) vs the user need (how do I get to place ABC).

Hopefully you'll bundle TrainTime in soon, as well as add OMNY card management.

It is amazing (but not surprising) that MyMTA (which is ≈6 years old) was "unmaintainble" and had to be thrown out. Can't decide if it was because the city only paid $40K/year and couldn't hire anyone good or because they paid some consultant who is friends with DOITT staff $5MM/year.

New comment by paulschreiber in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)"

paulschreiber — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 18:38:32 +0000

I’m hiring a mid-level or senior engineer for Terraso at Tech Matters. Principals only (no agencies/recruiters/job shops).

Tech Matters is a tech nonprofit that builds open source software to help solve social problems.

Title: Software Engineer (or Senior Software Engineer)

Company: Tech Matters

Type: Full Time

Location: Remote (Americas)

Salary: $70-120K (based on location/experience)

Apply via https://jobs.lever.co/TechMatters/e7acca51-8ba8-40ea-8b5e-83...

New comment by paulschreiber in "Reddit Confirms It Was Hacked–Recommends Users Set Up 2FA"

paulschreiber — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 15:39:16 +0000

Not requiring security keys for staff in 2023 is inexcusable.

New comment by paulschreiber in "Ask HN: LinkedIn sent me a cease and desist for my Chrome extension. Help?"

paulschreiber — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 01:28:44 +0000

The EFF can help. Send an email to info@eff.org and say you want some Coders Rights advice.

New comment by paulschreiber in "Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about"

paulschreiber — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 04:27:54 +0000

I ran into a problem formatting numbers in the Italian locale back in 2014: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+...

It turned out to be a low-level bug in glibc: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10797

It got fixed five years later, long after I had worked around it and left the job where I found the bug.

New comment by paulschreiber in "Ask HN: IT Security Checklist for Startups?"

paulschreiber — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:59:03 +0000

Mandatory Yubikeys should be on your list.

New comment by paulschreiber in "Poll: Contractors, what is your hourly rate"

paulschreiber — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 14:38:41 +0000

Amounts should be $20-39, $40-69, $70-99 to avoid overlap.

New comment by paulschreiber in "Ask HN: Own .com for 7 years, a new company trademarked my name registered .NET"

paulschreiber — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 19:15:15 +0000

The EFF has a cooperating attorneys list. They can refer you to someone who can help.

New comment by paulschreiber in "Ask HN: Anyone working remotely for a US company internationally?"

paulschreiber — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 19:03:44 +0000

Globant was mostly low-paid low-quality folks. Probably not a good fit.

New comment by paulschreiber in "Public Apology to Jeremy Howard"

paulschreiber — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:19:59 +0000

This blog post is unsigned. They should have put their names on it.

New comment by paulschreiber in "How the Zoom macOS installer does its job without you clicking ‘install’"

paulschreiber — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 01:11:44 +0000

Pacifist is also handy https://www.charlessoft.com/

New comment by paulschreiber in "Show HN: Offline text extractor from screenshots in macOS"

paulschreiber — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:59:33 +0000

There are a number of Chrome extensions to facilitate instagram downloading.

New comment by paulschreiber in "An Apology and an Update"

paulschreiber — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 05:14:06 +0000

I want to see a post-incident analysis, like GitHub published: https://blog.github.com/2018-10-30-oct21-post-incident-analy...

New comment by paulschreiber in "What web developers should know about SSL"

paulschreiber — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 04:07:53 +0000

I've compiled lots of resources for moving to HTTPS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EJKAoa4Hxc4AyH0znuA_AApl...