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Re:Show HN: No-Cloud Needed – A License for Devices That Work Without ... on Thursday August 28, 2025 @01:44PM (#45054918)
I created this license to make it easy to identify products that don’t have vendor lock-in.
Re:Former Employee Sentenced for Stealing Confidential Data and Extort... on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @05:53PM (#35894013)
Full title was too long for post: Former Employee Of Technology Company Sentenced To Six Years In Prison For Stealing Confidential Data And Extorting Company For Ransom

The Verge reports that the employee worked for Ubiquiti. He was caught because his IP address was exposed "during an internet outage...[that] disrupted his VPN". I assume he had a software-based VPN/firewall that crashed while he was stealing data from Ubiquiti.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/3/23584414/ubiquiti-develope...

Re:E-Commerce Company Boxed Files for Bankruptcy as Online Grocery Str... on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @11:10AM (#35440932)
Boxed Market (fresh grocery delivery) has been suspended, but Boxed.com is still running.

Ask HN: Data brokers using leaked data?

Posted by Jocund on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @03:26PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I used a popular reverse phone number lookup service to see what info they had associated with my cell number.They had records of my previous mailing address and even had an email address that I only used for Drizly.Drizly had a data leak, so that's the only way to obtain this specific email address. Is there a way to report U.S. based companies that use illegally obtained data?

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Re:Ask HN: Anonymous vs. non-anonymous feedback? Which is better? on Thursday September 24, 2020 @05:10PM (#24583688)
Anonymous feedback doesn't really work. It's not hard to figure out who wrote the feedback if they write anything non-trivial.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2020) on Friday May 01, 2020 @01:15PM (#23044272) 

  Location: NYC
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: SQL Server, PostgreSQL I'm looking for a DBA / DRE position. I've worked with AWS EC2s, RDS, and bare-metal 
  Résumé/CV:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HNpAq6WzWgGkZ98Z09EeZniF...

  Email: (In CV)
Re:A new class-action lawsuit takes aim at real estate agents and thei... on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:20PM (#19433011)
The 6% fee needs to end! I'm a Co-founder of a new firm in NYC who rebates 50%+ of the buyer side commission back to the buyer.

The average buyer doesn't a ton of assistance and giving them 1.5% of the purchase price back at closing just makes sense.

Re:Ask HN: 30+ year olds - how much have you saved so far? on Monday January 28, 2019 @10:26PM (#19023455)
30

192K in Robinhood 127k Equity in my apartment 65k 401k 82k IRA 10k Savings 3k Bonds Net worth: 479K

Re:Ask HN: Charting tools on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @04:39PM (#10006136)
Google has an API for charts. [1] https://developers.google.com/chart/

I preferred their older image charts which are now deprecated. [2] https://developers.google.com/chart/image/?hl=en

Re:Email reminder, [email protected] gives you a reminder in 1 day, on Sunday June 28, 2015 @05:24PM (#9795163)
Neat idea. I currently use the snooze feature in the Mailbox app for reminders, so I'm not sure when I would use this.