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m4tthumphreyon ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers

As per my other comment to the same question:

> Because I buy a lot of clothes and the ASOS app is well built and its slightly easier to use than the site.

m4tthumphreyon ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers

Because I buy a lot of clothes and the ASOS app is well built and its slightly easier to use than the site.

m4tthumphreyon ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers

For others its a huge online fashion retailer in the UK (and maybe elsewhere?).

m4tthumphreyon ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers

Stock down 13% today. Interestingly ASOS has been steadily growing this year, would be interested to see Polymarkets today...

m4tthumphreyon The lamps in my house

I'd love to have enough space to have a desk facing the room rather than the wall :(

m4tthumphreyon The lamps in my house

What a beautiful home. I love the office and desk setup specifically. The lamps are cool too.

m4tthumphreyon Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

Well I'd like to think Charlie Brooker, like many of us, could clearly say where humanity was heading. Some of the episodes that were considered far fetched 15 years ago are probably considered plausible at best and likely at worst now.

m4tthumphreyon Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits

To clarify I am not a Plex fan but am too lazy to move away.

m4tthumphreyon QR Codes That Route to the Appropriate App Store

Err wut... redirecting based on user agents?

m4tthumphreyon Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges

Enshittification is only going to get worse just like everything else.

m4tthumphreyon Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits

Plex / Sonarr / Radarr FTW.

m4tthumphreyon Claude Opus 5.5

Just post the bloody content. This UI/scrolling thing is horrific.

m4tthumphreyon We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

It was more the indoor parts, ie the human-less doors. We had plans for them into the utility which is where their trays are but just couldn't fit the cat doors in (the human doors are crittall, ie glass so couldnt put them into the door itself.

It worked out fine in the end!

m4tthumphreyon We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

100%. It's hard work and good luck/timing, not privilege.

m4tthumphreyon We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

> But please don't pretend or be ignorant of the idea that there are many more people in the world now that can both see this and likely never attain it despite "hard work" or "good investments".

Of course - I am one of them - but I can still appreciate the project.

Edit: To add, I would probably refer to this purely as hard work, good investments AND lots of good luck and timing, as opposed to privilege.

m4tthumphreyon We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

I really didn't expect this to be the take on HN...

- He's been in big (huge) tech since 2005

- She is an angel investor

- Moved to Austin

...

Does privileged just mean wealthy/successful now?

m4tthumphreyon We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

Just came here to say, everything about this is incredible. The house itself, the site, the FAQs but most of all, the attention that went into the cat's needs.

11/10.

We want(ed) to do something similar (re the cats needs) when renovating our house but just could never decide!

m4tthumphreyon .name Termination

https://neil.fraser.name/news/2002/02/19/

> Time to move to a new domain, one that will not obsolesce quite so quickly: neil.fraser.name.

I guess it wasn't quick, but eventual. :'(

m4tthumphreyon Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?

This is a very apt right now. The amount of AI posts is... boring to say the least.

I've always used the comments to upvotes ratio to workout if an article is worth reading. If the comments are higher than the upvotes, it's poor. Vice versa it's worth looking into. I skip all AI posts.

m4tthumphreyon Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?

I imagine OP knows but uses the domain to hide the article based on his own instinct/history with said domain.

m4tthumphreyon Every Fucking Website (2020)

Always randomly generated!

m4tthumphreyon Every Fucking Website (2020)

This is not in the same sport let alone league as the things demoed in OP.

m4tthumphreyon Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states

This is very satisfying to play with, top work!

m4tthumphreyon The Cold Email

I was simplifying my HN comment for brevity, I didn't just go "you've made a mistake by not hiring me, gimme the job" in the letter.

m4tthumphreyon UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

Putting all of the ethical issues aside, do you know how fucking boring this would be?

m4tthumphreyon GCC steering committee announces AI policy

I like the top reply:

> "The true purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill without allowing skill to access wealth."

m4tthumphreyon The Cold Email

I was rejected from a job interview a few years ago - wow 13 years ago now - and was honestly shocked after how well the interview went.

I decided to write a letter (email) to the HR department implying they'd made a huge mistake (the head of HR was in the interview too). She (as much as I knew at the time) overruled my would-be boss and the rest is history.

Best email I ever sent.

m4tthumphreyon Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

No I'm not, I expressed it...

I prefaced it with that to simply say I knew it'd be an unpopular opinion.

m4tthumphreyon Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

I'm going to get downvoted/flagged but I feel like we need a new type of "Show HN/Tell HN" etc for "New AI Model Available".

Front page is tedious these days.

m4tthumphreyon OpenAI's Ad Business Is on Pace to Miss Its Own Forecast by 90%, Analyst Says

Sure, they retarget ads they think you might want to see, but the difference is when using Google you are actively looking for something, not passively.