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by firloop 8y ago
Essentially, convincing a mobile operator to transfer someone’s phone account to a SIM card an attacker controls.
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by firloop 8y ago
Worked on StyleURL over the past couple of weeks with my friends Jarred (most of the code) and Lucy Guo (design). The goal is to make it super simple for designers & front-end devs to make changes to CSS on websites and export those cha
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Show HN: StyleURL – Edit CSS via Chrome Devtools and turn the diff into a gist(styleurl.app)
94 points by firloop 8y ago|22 comments
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by firloop 8y ago
Very tired discussion, see "Are paywalls ok?" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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by firloop 8y ago
I think the internet just got a lot bigger.
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by firloop 8y ago
No affiliation but all of my email exchanges with the creator have been surprisingly helpful and pleasant.
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Blot – a blogging platform with no interface(blot.im)
391 points by firloop 8y ago|120 comments
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by firloop 8y ago
A repo critical of the acquisition was removed from the Github “trending” page. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17251255 This doesn’t bother me that much, as the repo itself was unaffected and I expect a trending page
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by firloop 8y ago
Your link is correct -- Apple recently added the ability to programmatically modify the contents of push notifications which would allow one to build E2E on top of APNS. Android has always processed notifications through intents, so it&#x27
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by firloop 8y ago
By default, both Google and Apple can read the content of messages over their respective push services. This allows a service to send push messages to its users without Google being privvy to the content of the messages. I guess it's n
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How to pack a Prime plane(blog.aboutamazon.com)
2 points by firloop 8y ago|0 comments
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Simulation and Nature in Design(n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com)
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by firloop 8y ago
effective dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17063109
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The Search for the Ideal Shelves(wsj.com)
3 points by firloop 8y ago|0 comments
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Meet Lil Miquela, the AI Influencer(highsnobiety.com)
2 points by firloop 8y ago|1 comments
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Google is sunsetting support for domain fronting(theverge.com)
1 points by firloop 8y ago|0 comments
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Russia Blocks Telegram, Forcing Kremlin to Switch Service(bloomberg.com)
1 points by firloop 9y ago|0 comments
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by firloop 9y ago
Love the landing page. Just a heads up, navigating to the page breaks my browser's back button. Otherwise, looks fantastic!
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by firloop 9y ago
HBO has done this for a long time on their streaming service as well, which is maybe why Amazon thinks they can get away with it. Super annoying.
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by firloop 9y ago
I wonder how many more would abandon Facebook after seeing the targeting options in the Ads creator.
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by firloop 9y ago
Prior art in this area by Shopify: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14159994
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by firloop 9y ago
It almost feels like that's there so it ranks in the search results for "Chromecast"
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by firloop 9y ago
The thing that isn’t clear to me is how Trustico even had the private keys to begin with. It’s been a while since I’ve purchased a SSL certificate, but I remember generating the private key locally and providing a certificate signing reques
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Left to Louisiana’s Tides, a Village Fights for Time(nytimes.com)
1 points by firloop 9y ago|0 comments
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by firloop 9y ago
I vote the URL be changed to https://www.wired.com/story/tinder-lack-of-encryption-lets-s... which has a better write up and doesn't have infuriating scroll behavior
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by firloop 9y ago
In fact, it's against the App Store guidelines to refuse to work without a permission (unless it's central to the app).
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by firloop 9y ago
What makes Let's Encrypt less secure than a paid certificate? Or do you mean EV certs for the "magical green box"?
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by firloop 9y ago
Just curious: why Slack vs e.g. Discord for these types of communities? I've seen both used but I'm interested to know from a community organizer standpoint where each platform makes more sense.
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by firloop 9y ago
https://archive.is/2a176
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by firloop 9y ago
Apple's App Review guidelines used to say something along the lines of "If you have a problem, trashing us in the press never helps." I'm not trying to place judgment on Puffin, but this seems to be the wrong strategy. F

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