Hacker News: bstsb

New comment by bstsb in "Meta is adding rate limits and soft paywall to smart glasses"

bstsb — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:20:10 +0000

i think honestly it’s the opposite. it still confuses me why meta invested so much in their pointless experiments (think any of their AR ventures) when their main source of revenue was, and continues to be, their boring advertising on consumer apps

New comment by bstsb in "Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack"

bstsb — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:57:06 +0000

wow, this is actually a really impressive attack - a far cry from the obfuscated postinstall hooks seen a million times before.

the only real long-term solution to node-based attacks like this is to run any remote code in a container, or even a VM?

New comment by bstsb in "Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck"

bstsb — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:30:20 +0000

> […] the publisher posted a blank white page with the cryptic phrase, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.

completely unsurprised, given the state of online papers publishing. if you don’t have an subscription or aren’t an organisation member, the fees are insane

New comment by bstsb in "Don't verify email addresses by sending spam to them"

bstsb — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:12:26 +0000

the actual base64 email itself is an HTML document, with a bunch of filler text about metal magnets!

> Hi there, A magnetic domain is a region within a magnetic material in which the magnetization is in a uniform direction. This means that the individual magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned with one another and they point in the same direction [...]

they sign off the email with a zero-width space set to "font-size: 0" for some reason

New comment by bstsb in "Pact: Anonymous Credentials for the Web"

bstsb — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:19:31 +0000

interesting - this looks quite promising. anything that reduces captchas or client blocks while using a VPN is welcome in my books.

i’m not sure what they mean about agents, however. would this mean a human generates legitimate traffic, and that goodwill can then be utilised by a browser agent? and will it be possible to host your own Moderator?

New comment by bstsb in "Steam Machine launches today"

bstsb — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:08:47 +0000

what does that even mean in this context??

New comment by bstsb in "Burnout is real for open source maintainers"

bstsb — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:11:53 +0000

> This conversation was initially just a phone call, but was so powerful that we decided to turn it into a blog and share the audio via YouTube

i can tell - it looks like the blog post doesn't really add anything over a direct transcript of the call itself. it's just a bland summary of the really interesting story Dalton told

New comment by bstsb in "Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents"

bstsb — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:53:41 +0000

> I'm amused that it made me accept the terms and conditions without any indication of who I am

as far as i’m aware, that’s fully binding and often an accepted practise - take Minecraft’s server software, where you must accept the EULA with a text flag before running

New comment by bstsb in "I Stored a Website in a Favicon"

bstsb — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:20:08 +0000

for the first time in a while on HN, i disagree with the characterisation as AI-generated. at most it was drafted with an LLM, but the final output is pretty human to me.

they used the wrong it’s/its, made But. its own one-word sentence, didn’t capitalise HTML, and used “okayy” in parenthesis. all of this isn’t to criticise the writer - i enjoyed it more seeing these little imperfections that make up a blog post

New comment by bstsb in "Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time"

bstsb — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:19:14 +0000

ironically that guide is AI-generated

New comment by bstsb in "Poll: How often do you check "newest"?"

bstsb — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:59:44 +0000

it’s referring to the page available at /newest - the “new” link leads to it

New comment by bstsb in "Polsia raised $30M; source map: fake ARR, dead users, god-mode over your company"

bstsb — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:51:15 +0000

the Claude-produced website alongside its excessive hyperbole makes me much less likely to believe this “expose”, even if there is an element of truth to it. if you want to call out a company for being “AI slop”, don’t vibe code a website to do so.

to be fair, the fact they show precise revenue data through their public API is interesting: https://polsia.com/api/public/live/dashboard

New comment by bstsb in "OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool"

bstsb — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:41:17 +0000

always trust a vibe-coded website which uses a Discord bot as its backend

(i'm sure there are countless bypasses out there, but please don't use something like this)

New comment by bstsb in "1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries"

bstsb — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:42:46 +0000

hermitcraft's official website features world downloads for S1-10, as well as modded seasons

https://hermitcraft.com/

New comment by bstsb in "1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries"

bstsb — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:37:15 +0000

that is quite funny, tbf. looks like the person who opened is friends with eva, a member of "server scanning inc" [1] so they thought it was worth a shot

[1] https://eva.ac/

New comment by bstsb in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"

bstsb — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:56:28 +0000

much anonymity provided by VPNs is through how many people use their exit nodes, “disguising” your traffic among others. also if you hosted your own VPN it would be trivial for one to find its host from an ASN, and from there subpoena your billing information

New comment by bstsb in "Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt"

bstsb — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:24:09 +0000

> Get Outlook for Mac

this bit made me laugh. was the email drafted in Outlook? was it sent to some sort of forwarding mailbox, or did they just BCC every customer in?

New comment by bstsb in "First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5"

bstsb — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:07:50 +0000

apple didn't "make up" this vulnerability, it was an external team reporting an issue

New comment by bstsb in "Claude for Small Business"

bstsb — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:03:34 +0000

while there are some tools available for the web UI, like building small React apps or making diagrams, it doesn't have the same loop as Claude Code in terms of iteratively building or fixing

New comment by bstsb in "eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible"

bstsb — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:27:41 +0000

alternate link: https://archive.ph/rsC6e