Hacker News: CqtGLRGcukpy

New comment by CqtGLRGcukpy in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

CqtGLRGcukpy — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:04:22 +0000

I have two guesses why Google does this:

1) Google wants the most money, so they don't care to let dodgy ads thru.

2) There are more ads going out then can be reviewed, so they would rather have people report them, then they automatically reject the report until enough people report it, then an actual person may review it.

As to why Google doesn't use AI to review them? Google would rather use the AI in a way that makes them more money, than review ads and if AI decides to take them down then that's less money for Google.

(To be clear: I don't work for Google in any way, these are just my guesses)

New comment by CqtGLRGcukpy in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

CqtGLRGcukpy — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:09:36 +0000

Bypass paywall at either https://web.archive.org/web/20260909213058/https://www.404me... or https://archive.ph/7J5TB.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/993022/wordpress-automattic-ce... also has a writeup which takes some quotes from the article (and a statement by Automattic).

New comment by CqtGLRGcukpy in "The asteroid currently hitting front end web development"

CqtGLRGcukpy — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:03:25 +0000

There is going to come one day that companies (and any website owner) will wish they didn't use AI and instead used a simple (maybe even plain-text) website. That will come when people really need information from that website but can't get to it.

https://sparkbox.com/foundry/helene_and_mobile_web_performan...

Discussion regarding that post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494734

New comment by CqtGLRGcukpy in "Flock CEO's Address Spread Online as Surveillance Backlash Explodes"

CqtGLRGcukpy — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:13:16 +0000

Non-cloudflare link that basically says the same thing: https://mstdn.social/@stux/117186158784673388

New comment by CqtGLRGcukpy in "Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine"

CqtGLRGcukpy — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:11:48 +0000

Non-cloudflare link that basically says the same thing: https://mstdn.social/@stux/117186158784673388

New comment by CqtGLRGcukpy in "Creepy Crawlies"

CqtGLRGcukpy — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 23:30:58 +0000

I just had a look through my logs, and I've had over 90,000 requests from known AI bots over the last month. All this to a personal website that doesn't post very often.

And that's just known AI, I can't imagine what requests are pretending to a real person when they aren't.

New comment by CqtGLRGcukpy in "LinkedIn Has Accidentally Become a Dating Site"

CqtGLRGcukpy — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:14:25 +0000

I think it's also because the regular dating sites are setup to not find you a match, so by bypassing them (at least in a way), you have a better chance of actually going on a date.

To keep in mind is that this article talks about people who have had success using LinkedIn, I'm sure there are people who've tried it without success.

New comment by CqtGLRGcukpy in "Tonnes of nuclear material found at Syria site, UN atomic watchdog says"

CqtGLRGcukpy — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:56:24 +0000

OP at https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/joint-statemen....

Sometimes I do wish sites linked to the original press release so someone can read it for themselves.

New comment by CqtGLRGcukpy in "Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data"

CqtGLRGcukpy — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:01:38 +0000

I highly suggest (if you haven't already done so) you contact Nine PBS, as they (Nine PBS) won't be reading Hacker News.

New comment by CqtGLRGcukpy in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

CqtGLRGcukpy — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:39:15 +0000

Proof? Using an AI checker isn't accurate.

New comment by CqtGLRGcukpy in "How to Block Some of the Bots"

CqtGLRGcukpy — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:28:07 +0000

If you are unable to read this, there is an archived copy at https://archive.ph/d3236

New comment by CqtGLRGcukpy in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

CqtGLRGcukpy — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:59:36 +0000

A problem I see is that what someone may consider to be AI-generated actually isn't. And the AI checkers aren't reliable enough to definitely enough say something is AI-generated.

New comment by CqtGLRGcukpy in "Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster"

CqtGLRGcukpy — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:41:45 +0000

This is just a write-up of a video by SHiFT which can be watched at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THtbjPQFVZI.

Austria expels three Russian embassy staff after 'forest of antennae' discovered

CqtGLRGcukpy — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:49:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/04/austria-expels-three-russian-embassy-staff-vienna-suspicion-of-spying

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016430

Points: 12

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New comment by CqtGLRGcukpy in "Three cruise ship passengers die in suspected hantavirus outbreak"

CqtGLRGcukpy — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:38:52 +0000

TLDR: "Netherlands-based Oceanwide Expeditions said in a news release it was "managing a serious medical situation" on a polar expedition ship, the MV Hondius, which was off Cape Verde, an island nation in the Atlantic west of Africa."

See the current position at https://www.cruisemapper.com/ships/MV-Hondius-1624

New comment by CqtGLRGcukpy in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

CqtGLRGcukpy — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:02:05 +0000

I like what Ian Campbell (who is a Security ops engineer for DomainTools) said on Mastodon / Fediverse:

"Like every other Cloudflare service, this was likely designed to enable threat actors, amplify abusability, and reduce accountability."[1]

"I see Cloudflare's willful negligence and threat actor enablement every day."[2]

[1] https://masto.deoan.org/@neurovagrant/116501075857412461 [2] https://masto.deoan.org/@neurovagrant/116501907970934374

New comment by CqtGLRGcukpy in "Sam Altman's Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Company Gets in Bed with Zoom and Tinder"

CqtGLRGcukpy — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:43:07 +0000

I've used whereby in the past on a free account, I've found it easy enough for anyone to use. I stopped using them because they now limit free accounts to 30 minute meetings.

New comment by CqtGLRGcukpy in "AI was ruining my college philosophy classes. So I assigned a new kind of essay"

CqtGLRGcukpy — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:57:22 +0000

At the bottom it says "This article originally appeared on BostonGlobe.com on April 20, 2026.". So, if someone prefers to skip substack, the article can be read at https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/20/opinion/ai-college-cl...

New comment by CqtGLRGcukpy in "The parking lot that's keeping the lights on"

CqtGLRGcukpy — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:52:41 +0000

FYI: Be skeptical of Be Giant. As they are backed by the Weston family[1], which owns and runs Loblaws and Shoppers Drug Mart in Canada[2].

[1] https://www.begiant.ca/editorial-standards

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_family

New comment by CqtGLRGcukpy in "Why Gen Z is taking up boomer hobbies"

CqtGLRGcukpy — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:39:32 +0000

Paywall-free copy at https://archive.ph/Ntbjj

(And yes I know the controversy with archive.ph, but it's the only one which has the full copy)