Hacker News: wp381640

New comment by wp381640 in ""WordPress.org is not WordPress" [pdf]"

wp381640 — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:33:11 +0000

Context: court filing today and first substantive response from Automattic / Matt Mullenweg in the case WP Engine filed against them.

"WordPress.org is not WordPress" [pdf]

wp381640 — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:33:11 +0000

Article URL: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.437474/gov.uscourts.cand.437474.33.0.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41923897

Points: 28

# Comments: 5

New comment by wp381640 in "“Crypto drainer” template facilitates theft"

wp381640 — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 23:58:36 +0000

More unbanking the banked recently

New comment by wp381640 in "Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs"

wp381640 — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 13:06:21 +0000

It's crazy how much of a marketing footprint they have considering they're only the 19/20th largest exchange

I think the chances of them seeing out their stadium sponsorship are near 0%

New comment by wp381640 in "Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data"

wp381640 — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 02:10:27 +0000

I found this tweet very naive and an indication that Musk really doesn't know what he's getting into.

I don't see how he thinks tweet content alone will be enough to verify the 5% of monthly monetizable users

The other poor indicator was his tweet about sampling _100_ of his own replies to detect bots. That's a horribly small sample and horrible selection bias

The firehose is terabytes a day, add storage + indexes and it's pretty far from "fitting on an USB stick" in order to analyze.

New comment by wp381640 in "What a gas stove ban means for restaurants"

wp381640 — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 23:43:48 +0000

> in terms of CO2 emissions

CH4 is the larger concern with natural gas

This paper explains it:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c00437

New comment by wp381640 in "Security Vulnerability in Tor Browser"

wp381640 — Wed, 25 May 2022 23:51:41 +0000

If you use anything but the Tor Browser on the Tor network you're going to stand out like a flare

Further - many of the privacy enhancements in Firefox, such as fingerprint protection, were adopted from the work on Tor Browser

New comment by wp381640 in "$1M bounty for details on Tether’s backing"

wp381640 — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 03:30:10 +0000

This argument has been done to death. I personally find the conga line of analysts and hedge fund managers who appear on CNBC and talk up their book of shit picks a lot worse than the best short selling shops.

There are so many bad companies that are public today, they really need somebody nipping at their heels.

New comment by wp381640 in "Backblaze S-1 IPO"

wp381640 — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 04:24:42 +0000

Carbonite - which is rarely mentioned on hn, had a $300M+ run-rate when they were acquired in 2019

I think brand awareness of Backblaze is insular - I remember Carbonite had the strategy of advertising on right-wing radio in the 00's which seems to have worked for them.

New comment by wp381640 in "Backblaze S-1 IPO"

wp381640 — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 04:16:12 +0000

How did you ever think backing up 80TB for $60 a year was good for the company? You didn't need financial filings to know it wasn't.

New comment by wp381640 in "AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go"

wp381640 — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 14:54:12 +0000

Is see this as a positive for Cloudflare

New comment by wp381640 in "Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history"

wp381640 — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 05:38:05 +0000

> I still think it was Hal Finney

Finney didn't mix British and American English the way Satoshi did in his writing.

Finney was also an experienced and much better developer[0] than Satoshi[1]

[0] https://github.com/halfinney/bitcoin/commit/dc411b51e0a3cffc...

[1] https://github.com/Maguines/Bitcoin-v0.1/blob/master/bitcoin...

New comment by wp381640 in "Cloudflare's Disruption"

wp381640 — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 17:36:43 +0000

I was at the TC conference - wanted to buy the stock then!

Have bought since the IPO and am super bullish. It seems most Wall St analysts really don't understand the company or business.

New comment by wp381640 in "Pumps run dry at gas stations in Britain"

wp381640 — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:28:09 +0000

You can have one ass and buy a thousand rolls of toilet paper. You can't have one car and buy a thousand liters of fuel.

This is pure supply shock

New comment by wp381640 in "The NSA and CIA use ad blockers"

wp381640 — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 16:30:47 +0000

They had to change it from shots of drone footage because they kept failing click on the terrorists

New comment by wp381640 in "Tailscale free for open source projects"

wp381640 — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 21:56:07 +0000

the setup is such a pleasure to use - they've really nailed the onboarding and are a great example for other startups

New comment by wp381640 in "Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (2010)"

wp381640 — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 21:45:29 +0000

I was on the site yesterday looking at the watch - the array of options is also confusing

New comment by wp381640 in "Anonymous Hacks Epik"

wp381640 — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:19:03 +0000

Wordpress with a bunch of plugins and a theme from themeforest. Figures.

I wouldn't be poking any bears had I been running that setup.

New comment by wp381640 in "'Concerned Citizen'at Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Trial Turns Out to Be Family"

wp381640 — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 01:12:30 +0000

He cut her a personal check for $100k when she was 19 and didn't have much of a company because he liked her.

Not following up on that investment is a pretty strong signal

New comment by wp381640 in "The Matrix Resurrections – Official Trailer"

wp381640 — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 16:05:20 +0000

kudos to them for reclaiming it. always found it ironic that the alt-right co-opted the creation of trans women