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eyeareque··on Honda Insight $99 lawnmower engine swap [video]
That’s great. How much do the batteries cost? I’ve always wanted one of these cars.
eyeareque··on Tell HN: My entire company's Gsuite access has been banned
The ol “google won’t reply” post on HN support angle. If you make them look bad enough for their failures they usually respond. Good luck.
eyeareque··on Look Up Unknown Phone Numbers Using Facebook Reset Password
groove == gvoice
eyeareque··on Look Up Unknown Phone Numbers Using Facebook Reset Password
I once tracked down a Craigslist scammer by looking up their phone number (it was a groove number) within google voice. It showed his name, google profile, and photo. Their name helped me find their Facebook and Instagram. Long story short, I got my money back.

Iirc: Google used to enable allowing people to look you up by your phone number (it was something along the lines of: help your friends find your account). This used to be on by default, it doesn’t seem to be anymore.

Try looking up your friend’s google voice numbers in google voice and see if they have the option enabled.

eyeareque··on CVE Stuffing
Getting everyone onboard would be tough, some have tried and failed like osvdb. It requires funding and passionate folks to run it. I think what we could do is spin the cve arm of mitre off into a non profit, and asked all major companies who want to be on the board to chip in and support it. This could have challenges too that would need to be addressed.
eyeareque··on CVE Stuffing
Mitre is a us gov supported team, and previously they could not scale to the need of their efforts. They did the best they could, but they still had a lot of angry people out there. The whole world uses CVEs but it is US funded by the way.

In come new CNAs, scale the efforts through trusted teams, which makes sense. The mitre team can only do so much on their own.

Unfortunately I don’t think anyone will be as strict and passionate about getting CVEs done right, like the original mitre team has.

Here is to hoping they can revoke cna status from teams who consistently do not meet a quality bar.

eyeareque··on Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out
It can be hard to clearly identity website urls on a mobile browser, but also as others pointed out here there is a common attack called sub domain takeover.

I don’t personally like typing my credit cards into websites without making sure it is legit.

eyeareque··on Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out
To verify that this is a legit site:

Go to: https://usa.visa.com/legal/global-privacy-notice/additional-...

Then click on: “Visa Products & Services: How does Visa use personal information to benefit consumers and businesses?”

Then scroll to the bottom of that section and you’ll see the VAS link: ”U.S. cardholders can opt out of Visa using their card transaction data for VAS.” where you can opt out.

iPhones will auto capitalize text in the capatcha box, so make sure the text is all lowercase.

eyeareque··on Ask HN: Best HVAC system for a new house?
Something with dual zone control, and a nest thermostat for each area. Maybe two systems?

Something you should also do is make sure the place has really good insulation and windows/doors.

Or you can spend a lot more money and do what the top comment says.

eyeareque··on Response to Tim Bray's Departure
This read like it was written or highly edited by PR.
eyeareque··on How to clean your Apple Card
No leather wallets, how did they not test this? You’d think their coating process would protect against this.
eyeareque··on I Cancelled My Amazon Prime
I cancelled mine and switched to eBay. Shipping is “fast and free” and comes in 3-4 days on a lot of items. Much cheaper than 120/year, also I never used amazon video or music, or anything else they offer, so it made sense.

It also appears that prime items are marked up higher, often.

eyeareque··on Simple Dockerfile examples are often broken by default
Not locking it to a specific version is better for security updates. Do you want it to run stable with vulnerabilities or to run secure and broken?
eyeareque··on Facebook: Another three billion fake profiles culled
Did fb refund all of the ad money spend on these accounts? Let me guess: No.
eyeareque··on Updates to Works with Nest
More like: “We heard your lawyers”
eyeareque··on Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
How soon until google gets sued for the bait and switch? This reminds me of the Sony PlayStation Linux lawsuit: https://segmentnext.com/2016/06/21/sony-linux-lawsuit-ends-s...
eyeareque··on TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to File Your Taxes
Regular reminder that intuit and H&R Block lobby to keep the government from simplifying tax filings to protect their business.
eyeareque··on Mass Production of iPhones to Start in India
My guess is that they are only doing this to meet the local restrictions in order to open stores, avoid extra taxes inside of India.
eyeareque··on YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content
But then how would virtually every YouTuber make a living? You’ve described all of their tricks :)
eyeareque··on YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content
Humans are expensive, and reviewing horrible content causes mental health issues. I don’t blame them for trying but I agree they aren’t as good and have a long way to go.
eyeareque··on U.S. senators introduce social media bill to ban 'dark patterns' tricks
Funny that Facebook is for this, but it makes sense. It would stop any startups from having the same advantage as them in regards to sketchy growth practices.
eyeareque··on Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing
Uhg, how do we stop this? Is it too late?
eyeareque··on Appeal accepted: Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
I should have stated the front page gets you support :)
eyeareque··on How Spotify and Discover Weekly Earn Me $400/month
It would be interesting to see the bump you get in listeners post HN front page.
eyeareque··on Appeal accepted: Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
I guess hacker news is the only place where google gives their customers support.
eyeareque··on An Englishman who saved Japan’s cherry blossoms
Paywall
eyeareque··on Yelp Evades Fire but Isn’t Bulletproof
Thank you. Paywalls shouldn’t be on the front page.
eyeareque··on Ask HN: Found rideshare app security leak but their bug bounty is invite-only
security@company.com will usually get you a person that knows how to handle these reports.
eyeareque··on I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days
I had 4 onsite interviews in 5 days once. It was brutal, so exhausting. I felt like a machine though. A lot of the questions were recycled (behavioral), and so were some of the tech questions.

I don’t know how they managed to do 6 in 6 days, that’s almost hard to believe. Most companies aren’t so flexible on the days they can host you.

It would have been very interesting to see how the offers compared and which company they went with. I’d also be interested to see what the negotiations did for their final TC.

eyeareque··on Designing an audio adblocker
I will be very interested to see how well this does. This has been something I wish existed for a long time. Great work!

I’d much more prefer to pay the podcaster directly than to listen to ads. But this doesn’t seem to be an option.

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