My credit card number was stolen a few days ago by someone in Palo Alto right after my site was on Hacker News’s home page. I’m going to choose to believe they are unrelated. Interesting though since I don’t live or work in California and this card has never visited there. On the positive side, […]
July 18, 2012 | Hacker News, Technology, Wordpress | No comments
Big News [April 24th, 2012]: I’ve launched Wordfence to permanently fix your WordPress site’s security issues. Read this now. UPDATE: WordThumb has now been merged into TimThumb and has become TimThumb 2.0. Please head over to the TimThumb site now for updates and to get the code. As I mentioned yesterday my WordPress blog was hacked. The security hole […]
August 2, 2011 | Hacker News, Security, TimThumb, Wordpress | 8 comments
I’ve posted a couple of times about the negativity on Hacker News and why I no longer post there. Well the AirBnB fiasco has been seized by the HN “nancy grace” crowd with a vengance and they’re pounding their most successful startup ever into the dirt and promoting its competitors. While you may feel the AirBnB execs could have handled […]
July 31, 2011 | Hacker News | No comments
I want you to do a little sanity check, because I’m worried it’s just me. Read the top moderated comment for the top items each day on HN and tell me if you’re also noticing that around 75% of them are posted by this guy:
July 28, 2011 | Hacker News | No comments
I get wierded out when an opinion piece I posted about the impending debt default is on the home page of Hacker News for 20 minutes and climbing – and then gets disappeared. The article is still posted on HN, no message that it’s flagged as spam, no email. Just a little tweak that disappears me from everything […]
July 24, 2011 | Hacker News | No comments
The worst time to submit a story to HN is right now. From about 2am to 10am Pacific time the ratio of votes to submissions is at it’s lowest: This is from an app I whipped up yesterday that tracks stats for Hacker News continuously.
July 6, 2011 | Hacker News | No comments
This incredibly disturbing story was posted on Hacker News 26 minutes ago. Summary: The London Daily Telegraph (via TheAge.com.au) is reporting that British Intelligence agents from MI6 and GCHQ hacked into an AlQueda online magazine and removed instructions for making a pipe bomb. They replaced the article with a cupcake recipe. A Pentagon operation was […]
June 5, 2011 | Hacker News, Law, networks, Security, Technology | 3 comments
The smartest most helpful people hang out there. Thanks for the awesome theme Lucian!
May 28, 2011 | Hacker News, Themes | No comments