<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: VladVladikoff</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=VladVladikoff</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 20:11:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=VladVladikoff" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I actually saw a pretty decent captcha the other day on a Chinese website (I think Taobao? I forget.) anyway the cool thing they did was that the text wasn’t in an image it was a looping video, but the text in any one frame was incomplete (only parts of the Chinese characters). And each frame different parts of the characters were visible, with a lot of noise in other parts of the frame where parts of characters would have been in other frames. A human brain sort of smoothed this out between frames and sees the characters clearly, but taking a screenshot was impossible. And becuase I don’t know Chinese I wasn’t able to take a screenshot and ask AI to translate the message. It seemed like a pretty good anti AI method. Of course an algorithm could be made to convert the video into a single frame, but captchas have always been defeatable by a sufficiently motivated attacker, they are only to raise the bar slightly against the swarm of dumb bots.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 12:57:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48335663</link><dc:creator>VladVladikoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48335663</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48335663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As long as it hits before my kids have to wipe my elderly ass I’m golden.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 01:30:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48331453</link><dc:creator>VladVladikoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48331453</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48331453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 03:17:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304040</link><dc:creator>VladVladikoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304040</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Archive.ph/archive.today failing me to bypass paywall, is everyone commenting on the title? Or you all have NYT subscriptions? Or you know of some other bypass?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 02:38:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303717</link><dc:creator>VladVladikoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303717</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "Omarchy Is Not A Distro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>if you're new to Linux, skip omarchy and install a real distribution<p>I am so glad I have LLMs now to help me with Linux problems, gone are the years of putting up with curmudgeonly Linux gate keepers like this on IRC just so I could make progress when I was stuck.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 17:11:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259090</link><dc:creator>VladVladikoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259090</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This article is so strange. It is written by the company, but written in a way that an outsider would write.<p>> Colossal has not released its hatch rate for the 26 chickens, which limits direct comparison to prior shell-free systems. The announcement was also made without an accompanying peer-reviewed paper or publicly released dataset, meaning independent scientists have not yet been able to evaluate the underlying methodology.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 13:13:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257030</link><dc:creator>VladVladikoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "Sales and Dungeons: Thermal printer TTRPG utility"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I really appreciate that you mentioned this, I am now very inspired to do a fun thermal printer project with my kids. Thank you!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 00:43:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253130</link><dc:creator>VladVladikoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253130</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "Sales and Dungeons: Thermal printer TTRPG utility"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Whoa! Really? That’s cool! Thanks!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252877</link><dc:creator>VladVladikoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252877</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "Don't Roll Your Own"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No. There are already too many batshit insane laws trying to regulate the internet. We need less, not more.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 23:59:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252866</link><dc:creator>VladVladikoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "Sales and Dungeons: Thermal printer TTRPG utility"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would love to do some fun things with the thermal printer I have lying around, however, I’m not so sure it is possible to get BPA free paper. Even the “BPA free” paper comes with similar molecules like BPS, which has been shown to be just as bad for the human endocrine system. If anyone can correct me on this and point me to some paper I would be comfortable with my kids handling (kids put everything in their mouths), please let me know.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 23:15:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252556</link><dc:creator>VladVladikoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252556</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Being a web content creator was already a dead job (killed by Google) before the AI boom. Chasing after at this point seems beyond foolish. Time to find a new career.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 14:58:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223860</link><dc:creator>VladVladikoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223860</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What if the reason for their stuff being shut down was a payment issue like an expired credit card or maxed credit account? Unless I missed it skim reading their post I don’t see any information anywhere about their communications with Google.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 13:15:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207184</link><dc:creator>VladVladikoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207184</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is like a fever dream.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 02:51:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188636</link><dc:creator>VladVladikoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188636</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cool. Now please make it support skins that aren’t rectangular. <a href="https://warped3.substack.com/p/direct-win32-api-weird-shaped-windows" rel="nofollow">https://warped3.substack.com/p/direct-win32-api-weird-shaped...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:27:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185132</link><dc:creator>VladVladikoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "HTML Lists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>What if there’s a bunch of options, but for [reasons] we don’t want a user to be able to select a subset of them? Let’s add the disabled attribute to an optgroup<p>Seems broken in mobile safari, not actually disabled I can still select the disabled items.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 17:33:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162178</link><dc:creator>VladVladikoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162178</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Anecdotally, US banks are terrible at building fraud control systems. It seems US banks assume any transaction that is charged by an entity outside the US is fraud. In my 10-year history of running a SaaS, the US banks and their "fraud control" systems have been one of the biggest billing problems.<p>This rings home so true, as a Canadian company I am SO TIRED of US banks flagging our transactions as fraud. We have done so much to try to prevent it too. We have a mail forwarding office address in the US. A bank account in USD in the US registered to that address, the merchant account tied to that charging in USD, and still we get these fraud flags. And we’re over the 10 year mark now, I think almost 15. You would thing we would have built up some trust at these banks, but nope.<p>My next biggest hassle lately is we are a “tokenize and bill later” type service, and we don’t charge monthly recurring exact same amount, depends on the users incurred charges in that period. And lately it seems most Americans leave their cards on a permanently lock, and only unlock to allow a charge, this means most of our charges decline initially until the user unlocks their card and retries the payment. A real support headache if any has a fix to either of these problems I would pay good money for it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 11:42:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159271</link><dc:creator>VladVladikoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159271</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple Pay & Google Wallet are actually considered lower risk by card brand than other card transactions because Apple and Google have so much tracking and biometrics on you, the phone must be unlocked and pin entered to pay. My company gets lower rates on these types of transactions than regular card transactions, lower rates because fraud is paid for by the fees, less fraud for a transaction type, lower merchant rates.
So likely those transactions your kid does on their phone are flying way below the fraud threshold to trigger, even if it hits one trigger like “impossible travel distance”.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 11:30:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159201</link><dc:creator>VladVladikoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159201</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "Too dangerous or just too expensive? The real reason Anthropic is hiding Mythos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cheap shared hosting will throttle sites which get too much traffic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 13:29:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148341</link><dc:creator>VladVladikoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "They Said It Would Cost $54M. We Said "No Thanks.""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m at the point where if I see an AI image at the start of an article I just back right out. It would be so much better if the author just didn’t include an image at all. What did this image actually add to the content of the post? If you’re just doing something for the sake of doing it you’ve lost the plot.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 11:53:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134124</link><dc:creator>VladVladikoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134124</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VladVladikoff in "Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow great work and great post! love stuff like this on HN.</p>
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