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Companies House flaw exposed 5M directors and enabled company hijacking

taxpolicy.org.uk
2 points·by matteason·4 maanden geleden·1 comments

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

ambiph.one
357 points·by matteason·3 jaar geleden·129 comments

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matteason
·2 maanden geleden·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 maanden geleden·discuss
He posts on his Instagram to verify authenticity: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXwf7pis6KT
matteason
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Anyone else getting the optical illusion of the fans spinning in your peripheral vision while reading the top paragraphs?
matteason
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Cloudflare are very much pushing back: https://www.laliga.com/en-GB/news/official-statement-in-rela...
matteason
·2 maanden geleden·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 maanden geleden·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 maanden geleden·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 maanden geleden·discuss
I'm seeing the same pattern, with the addition of diddy@ and epstein@, curiuosly
matteason
·6 maanden geleden·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 maanden geleden·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 maanden geleden·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 maanden geleden·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 maanden geleden·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 maanden geleden·discuss
Well the argument certainly wasn't "nobody dies of cancer in places with universal healthcare"
matteason
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
Something doesn't have to be perfect to be better
matteason
·10 maanden geleden·discuss
Mirror: https://archive.is/OpFMP
matteason
·10 maanden geleden·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 jaar geleden·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 jaar geleden·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 jaar geleden·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