Hacker News: 8by3

New comment by 8by3 in "Websites Should Be Printable"

8by3 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:43:08 +0000

Inserting the page breaks is for the authors, its a button in the editor when creating a post. The download epub / create printable pdf are on the posts for readers.

New comment by 8by3 in "Websites Should Be Printable"

8by3 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:41:41 +0000

https://tuhat.net allows you to set a page size for your post and input hidden page breaks for when people download the epub version or print your posts, it doesn't affect the web version.

There is also a zine booklet mode which works out page imposition to print out a zine (eg. double sided, folded in half)

Click the printer icon on any tuhat post.

New comment by 8by3 in "Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier"

8by3 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:46:55 +0000

Not if you move countries. I moved from the UK to Canada, updated my payment method and all UK purchased content was gone from my itunes account

And yes, there is some elaborate workaround to create a brand new account and share the original with the new but fundamentally I could no longer access what I purchased because I moved. And no, I didn't get a refund for the years of purchased content.

New comment by 8by3 in "I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic"

8by3 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:58:19 +0000

The challenge isn't terribly clever, just some basic crypto maths, same as Anubis. There are a very low number of AI bots that pass it based on my logs, like 0.01% low and I suspect they are interactive agents that bother to run JS as crawlers typically don't. Assuming these are actually run on an end users computers I don't think any amount of cpu/memory weight would be a real blocker. One thing I've seen that is interesting'ish is bots failing as they answer the challenge from a different IP than it was requested from, and the source IP is validated as part of the response so they fail.

New comment by 8by3 in "I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic"

8by3 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:56:17 +0000

I rolled my own version of Anubis for reasons*, and > 80% of all traffic is bots that fail the challenge, even when white listing legit crawlers.

* I wanted an elixir version so I could run it alongside my existing apps instead of having it sit as a proxy in front of them. This way my existing apps can validate if the caller is already whitelisted and if not redirect to the challenger https://sphinx.8by3.com which sends you back to a site if you pass eg. https://tuhat.net

Two Thousand Watt Society Calculator

8by3 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:10:48 +0000

Article URL: https://mmkw.8by3.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943586

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by 8by3 in "Ask A Monk – A digital wilderness for thoughts with no immediate answer"

8by3 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:56:47 +0000

I was pretty sure it was built by and also run by an LLM (eg. openclaw), the same user setup a tuhat account a few weeks ago

https://tuhat.net/@askamonk/

And they responded to my weak prompt injection by claiming they were human, so I'd say code 100% LLM, intention human.

New comment by 8by3 in "What the New AI Layoff Data Proves"

8by3 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:31:14 +0000

Crappy feedback loops are ruining a lot of the internet.

I'm not a serious youtuber, don't have an account, don't follow anyone.

But I randomly came across this guy https://youtube.com/@barryseconomics and its pretty refreshing.

New comment by 8by3 in "Show HN: Chronicle – Local-first, open-source authoring software for writers"

8by3 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:38:44 +0000

Why do all vibe coded sites use a dark theme with blue and purple glowing styling. Is this the colour scheme of the future, the bots have decided?

Or is it something boring like its the default colours of some npm pkg.

New comment by 8by3 in "China state newspaper blasts Anthropic's calls to slow AI as 'Cold War' tactic"

8by3 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:09:16 +0000

Its not even a thinly veiled attack on China, https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier explicitly calls out China as the boogey man.

I'm by no means a fan of all of China's methods – its a country riddled with issues and contradictions, but can any country claim otherwise, can the US?

I've often wondered how executives and politicians can be so brazenly dishonest and still hold a straight face. One explanation is they really believe the lies they tell, but I can't believe that in this case.

New comment by 8by3 in "Code for the People – The human story of the open web"

8by3 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:38:05 +0000

That feels more like a paste bin than a writing platform? How do you know whats published without having the link already?

The hard part of stand alone publishing eg. not being on a big closed network is discovery, this seems to make that even harder than normal.

New comment by 8by3 in "Why Bending Spoons eliminated all job titles"

8by3 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:24:40 +0000

I love being out of touch with the tech scene. I couldn't fathom what the link between paranormal powers and job titles could possibly be. One assumes they still have L7E whatever for the org chart and reporting software. It feels like a lazy publicity stunt.

Also don't people think these kinds of company names will backfire? Spoon bending is a con, is everything that the company does also a con?

New comment by 8by3 in "Code for the People – The human story of the open web"

8by3 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:03:27 +0000

Since this is an ad for wordpress, I don't mind plugging another opensource writing platform – https://tuhat.net/about

And no, it's not worth billions, and doesn't have a budget for its own film.

New comment by 8by3 in "Object storage is all you need"

8by3 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:50:10 +0000

TIL, thanks for the context. What I was getting at still stands, LLM's seem to love a lot of words-with-hyphens which might be grammatically correct, but I've never seen a human actually type.

New comment by 8by3 in "Ask HN: Claude or ChatGPT? Which is better for me as a Tech guy?"

8by3 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:29:12 +0000

I always thought the choice was between, do you want the company that is honest about being dishonest, or the one that is dishonest about it.

New comment by 8by3 in "What is the correct way to become a DevOps eng?"

8by3 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:27:26 +0000

Start as a regular engineer – be good at it, people will give you more responsibility, be good at it – soon you will be a product engineer, and be an all singing, all dancing, one girl band.

New comment by 8by3 in "I think I hate the internet"

8by3 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:44:52 +0000

Its the not internet, its bad incentives (profit) making once ok platforms shitty. But there are alternatives

Whatsapp - https://signal.org / http://element.io

Instagram - https://fotoapp.co/ / https://glass.photo

Twitter - https://joinmastodon.org/

Substack - https://tuhat.net

Facebook - maybe replace it with a mix of the others

New comment by 8by3 in "Object storage is all you need"

8by3 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:05:13 +0000

real people don't write "compare-and-swap" ... or "lo-and-behold" for that matter.

edit. Clearly the joke about "lo-and-behold" didn't land well with the bots...

New comment by 8by3 in "Laid-Off Developers Create AI Model to Replace CEOs and Other Executives"

8by3 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:24:17 +0000

This has made the rounds before

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458418

New comment by 8by3 in "Flushing the toilet may release germ plume at adult face height"

8by3 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:22:23 +0000

I thought this was common knowledge? In my bio class ~20 years ago, people swabbed parts of the bathroom to see how far from the toilet you still found e. coli etc.

And while this suggests it wasn't consistent, have always closed the lid / left the room since.