Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — richbell

richbell

HN member
Joined
Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 6:55 PM UTC
HN karma
3,650
Public activity
1,105 items

About richbell

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #49177424

    It's baffling that this hasn't been done after the 6th(?) time in the past year.

  2. comment
    Comment #48950501

    Likewise. I saw it vanish from the "Plan usage limits" page in real time.

  3. comment
    Comment #48699768

    I've only heard it used as Retr0id's definition.

  4. comment
    Comment #48694539

    What I'm reading is that you agree Trump represents the republican party. Great, the gp's comment has been settled.

  5. comment
    Comment #47702500

    I moderated a large Reddit community (circa 2014). She threatened to have articles written about how we were racist/misogynistic, unless we removed comments she didn't like. Her be…

  6. comment
    Comment #47606717

    I suspect that he at least uses AI for scripts. He tends to repeat the same thing worded slightly differently a few times.

  7. comment
    Comment #47604459

    https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_...

  8. comment
    Comment #47383219

    Is the implication that someone can't dislike both?

  9. comment
    Comment #47371945

    If you find an exposed token in the wild, for a service supported by GitHub Secret Scanning, uploading it to a Gist will either immediately revoke it or notify the owner.

  10. comment
    Comment #47371852

    How is reminding people that they can safely revoke exposed API keys not informative? Why are you being so combative?

  11. comment
    Comment #47370021

    AWS sends me an invoice for $0.01 every month.

  12. comment
    Comment #47283814

    Kotlin Coroutine's structured concurrency. Cancelling a parent automatically cancels child jobs, unless explicitly handled not to. https://kotlinlang.org/docs/coroutines-basics.htm…

  13. comment
    Comment #46936893

    Parallel and Series makes sense to me; it's also the terminology used for electrical circuits.

  14. comment
    Comment #46493144

    The purpose of command and control servers is to send and receive data to victims devices. A secondary goal is to do so while evading detection. This is why many threat actors pigg…

  15. comment
    Comment #46150510

    The main use case, in my opinion, is for tests/CI. SQLite has traditionally been used to quickly run tests, however, if your actual infra uses PostgreSQL then the value is limited.…

  16. comment
    Comment #46130010

    That is what "end-to-end encryption" has come to mean in marketing. In the same way that every single product is "natural."

  17. comment
    Comment #46040283

    One highly publicized incident was https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/13s7mv3/why_...

  18. comment
    Comment #45949919

    Uber's business model is to be a loss leader to hamper competition, then jack up rider rates and lower drive rates. This is technically a 'working' business model, but hardly one t…

  19. comment
    Comment #45915550

    > Hang on a minute. How do you square your claim that it's as it should be that train drivers can be paid as much as airline pilots, with your claim that everyone else is underpaid…

  20. comment
    Comment #45870435

    > He said that his team had hoped for it to become a prescription medicine dosed at 500 mcg, because anything higher gave paradoxical effects and actually made sleep worse. Tangent…

  21. comment
    Comment #45785224

    There are a number of products and open source tools that do this. Look up "secret scanning".

  22. story
  23. comment
    Comment #43727282

    > in light of the DOGE findings regarding 150+ year olds collecting social security... The claims made by DOGE were highly misleading (i.e., lack of death date does not mean a 150 …

  24. comment
    Comment #43446628

    The modern Internet is a privacy nightmare in large part due to advertisers. Having every aspect of your life surveiled, packaged, and sold is not a trivial issue.

  25. comment
    Comment #43359375

    And will they ever support an easily-configured catch-all domain, like Namecheap?