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Companies House flaw exposed 5M directors and enabled company hijacking

taxpolicy.org.uk
2 points·by matteason·4 months ago·1 comments

Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white noise

ambiph.one
357 points·by matteason·3 years ago·129 comments

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matteason
·2 months ago·discuss
Google's design blog has a particularly egregious version of this: https://design.google/

The mouse blob morphs into the background of any buttons you hover over, which is technically impressive but annoying in practice
matteason
·2 months ago·discuss
He posts on his Instagram to verify authenticity: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXwf7pis6KT
matteason
·2 months ago·discuss
Anyone else getting the optical illusion of the fans spinning in your peripheral vision while reading the top paragraphs?
matteason
·2 months ago·discuss
Cloudflare are very much pushing back: https://www.laliga.com/en-GB/news/official-statement-in-rela...
matteason
·2 months ago·discuss
Context: last year LaLiga (top-level Spanish football league) obtained a court order compelling Spanish ISPs to block certain IPs during football matches, as those IPs have been associated with illegal streams of live matches. Many of those IPs are shared Cloudflare IPs, with the result being many legitimate sites become unavailable in Spain during LaLiga matches

https://cybernews.com/news/spain-laliga-streaming-piracy-cam...
matteason
·3 months ago·discuss
They're here: https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/journey-to-the-moon/

Direct link to this image: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/art002e00019...
matteason
·4 months ago·discuss
Companies House statement here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/update-on-companies-house...

(Companies House maintain the official register of companies in the UK)
matteason
·5 months ago·discuss
I'm seeing the same pattern, with the addition of diddy@ and epstein@, curiuosly
matteason
·6 months ago·discuss
Please don't post sign-up pages for things that don't exist yet to Show HN, they're off topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
matteason
·6 months ago·discuss
Thank you for sharing! I made this one. Had the same problem as the OP, the Google results are full of junk, so I made it just so I had something reliable to use.
matteason
·7 months ago·discuss
You have uBlock Origin or another ad blocker installed, their cookie banner disables scrolling but your ad blocker is blocking the cookie banner (same thing happened to me)
matteason
·7 months ago·discuss
> Here’s the best part: the battery lasts for years

I wonder how many years?

> The battery lasts for up to years of average use.

...how many?

> a battery that lasts for years

How many years does the battery last?

> That’s up to 2 years of usage.

Ah.

I guess "2" is the absolute minimum that you could describe as "years".

It's a shame because it does look like an interesting proposition. It might be more compelling if it was "send your ring back to us for recycling - and we'll send you a new one". I doubt the economics would work at this price point though.
matteason
·7 months ago·discuss
I have an 'Ambient Radio' channel on https://ambiph.one, my soundscape generator: https://ambiph.one/?m=1-Ambient+Radio-bf100

There are some great less-well-known artists on there - if you tap the album art it'll link you to their Bandcamp if they have one
matteason
·8 months ago·discuss
Well the argument certainly wasn't "nobody dies of cancer in places with universal healthcare"
matteason
·8 months ago·discuss
Something doesn't have to be perfect to be better
matteason
·10 months ago·discuss
Mirror: https://archive.is/OpFMP
matteason
·10 months ago·discuss
Are there any software-oriented licenses in the same spirit as CC BY-NC? I'm aware that it likely wouldn't be a true Open Source license if you completely prohibit commercial use, but I've looked for a license like that in the past and didn't have any luck
matteason
·2 years ago·discuss
Thanks! There's a credits link in the footer which lists out all the authors of the sounds (mostly from freesound.org and the Free Music Archive under CC-BY or CC0 licenses). For the music I dig through stuff tagged ambient. I'd like to expand the music selection a lot more, and maybe have something radio-y too

The binaural beats I made for someone who asked for them in these comments and the shipping forecast is one track of me reading a made-up (but structurally accurate, I think) forecast in my best Radio 4 voice :)
matteason
·3 years ago·discuss
Thank you! And in case anyone is suspicious I promise this isn't my alt :)

Glad the gamma worked for you. I'd never really used binaural beats before but there seem to be a lot of things claiming to be binaural beats (especially on YouTube) that are actually just relaxing music? So I made them from scratch to make sure they're accurate
matteason
·3 years ago·discuss
Good suggestion. It's on the plan to add more control over individual channels (things like positioning in 3D space, high-pass/low-pass, reverb etc) so a 'drift' mode would fit nicely in there