Hacker News: decremental

New comment by decremental in "SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades"

decremental — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:28:52 +0000

This comment has won the cringe award

New comment by decremental in "US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew"

decremental — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:24:41 +0000

HN: Where JavaScript programmers try and fail to express intelligent thoughts not related to JavaScript programming.

New comment by decremental in "Zuckerberg Caught in Revealing Hot Mic Moment During White House Dinner"

decremental — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 17:15:05 +0000

When my guy is in office it's good and normal. When their guy is in office it's bad.

New comment by decremental in "Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems"

decremental — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 11:23:16 +0000

It's not that website owners don't care that they're frustrating users, losing visitors and customers, or creating a poor experience. It's an intractable problem for most website owners to combat the endless ways that their sites are being botted and bogged down, and having to pay for resources to handle the 98% of traffic their sites are getting that isn't coming from real users and customers. By all means, solve it and everyone will be happy.

New comment by decremental in "EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google"

decremental — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 23:27:21 +0000

From the telegraph.co.uk: "Elite police unit to monitor online critics of migrants" and there are people worried about the "political climate" in the US lmao

New comment by decremental in "I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models"

decremental — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 03:29:37 +0000

You say that as if it stands as truth on its own. We actually don't need to filter out how people actually talk and think. Otherwise you just end up with yet another enforcer against wrong-think. I wonder if you even think that deeply about it or if you're just wired at this point to conform.

New comment by decremental in "US pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls expanding social media vetting"

decremental — Tue, 27 May 2025 18:23:53 +0000

Yeah the government shouldn't care at all what these foreign nationals might be saying on the internet before letting them into our country.

New comment by decremental in "Sycophancy in GPT-4o"

decremental — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:02:12 +0000

This is what the kids call cope.

New comment by decremental in "Woman who tricked her way into men-only Magic Circle allowed in"

decremental — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:10:10 +0000

RIP that friend group. Once women get involved in a men's only space it destroys that dynamic forever. Nothing but trouble can come from this.

New comment by decremental in "Hyperscaling Have I Been Pwned with Cloudflare Workers and Caching"

decremental — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:28:57 +0000

HN skews heavily towards users with very unusual setups. Using one of the least popular browsers on an OS almost no one in the grand scheme of things uses makes you a statistical outlier on its own. Who knows what other obscure configuration choices could be making the problem even worse for such a user?

But yeah, it's none of that just Cloudflare hates brown people or something.

New comment by decremental in "Arroyo (YC W23) has been acquired by Cloudflare"

decremental — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 22:50:43 +0000

I downgraded a $250/mo plan but it bugged out, re-added it to my account, and charged me. Couldn't remove it. Contacted support and after a month of no response they closed the ticket.

Created another ticket. After a week they apologized and said something about having a very high volume of support requests.

New comment by decremental in "Stripe adds yet another additional $15 dispute fee, unless you use their AI"

decremental — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 04:42:12 +0000

Chargeback early warning ends this month. It won't be a thing going forward. (Might just be applicable to Visa)

New comment by decremental in "CSS Custom Functions are coming"

decremental — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:35:21 +0000

The syntax might kind of suck but this will actually be very useful to have.

New comment by decremental in "Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US"

decremental — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:38:54 +0000

He won the popular vote. His base is the majority of Americans lol

New comment by decremental in "Critics say new Google rules put profits over privacy"

decremental — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:46:38 +0000

It's common for people to say things like that and throw in the phrase fiduciary duty. That's what's being referenced here.

New comment by decremental in "CA Teenager Sentenced to 48 Months in Prison for Nationwide Swatting Spree"

decremental — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:54:29 +0000

48 months for 375 attempted murders isn't exactly getting the book thrown at you. It should have been life.

New comment by decremental in "South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it"

decremental — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:07:08 +0000

This article reeks to high hell of the regime propaganda writing we see about domestic politics:

"Yoon — whose approval rating has dipped in recent months — has struggled to push his agenda against an opposition-controlled parliament since taking office in 2022.

Yoon’s conservative People Power Party had been locked in an impasse with the liberal opposition Democratic Party over next year’s budget bill. He has also been dismissing calls for independent investigations into scandals involving his wife and top officials, drawing quick, strong rebukes from his political rivals."

See the same patterns. You can tell which side they want to paint in a bad light and what do you know it's the conservative side.

New comment by decremental in "Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency"

decremental — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 19:22:11 +0000

You'd think a bunch of javascript programmers I mean hackers would know better.

New comment by decremental in "Ask HN: How do you manage registration spam?"

decremental — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:25:08 +0000

Use Cloudflare's Turnstile captcha. It's leagues ahead of Google's or hCaptcha. Users never have to click on stupid images, and it works great. You're not going to be able to stop people manually signing up but depending on how they're doing it, you might curb some of it.

These guys have loads of email addresses and can just use a VPN to switch to a new IP in seconds. Often accompanied with a completely fresh browser session that you're going to have a hard or impossible time correlating with past attempts.

Parse the domain portion of the email address and check that against a blacklist of throwaway and fishy email domains. Manually blacklist domains as needed. You can find blacklists hosted on GitHub. Use the Public Suffix List to parse the domain to make sure you don't accidentally ban an entire obscure TLD. Parse down the email domain to remove any subdomain when checking against the blacklist.

If you're really serious, you can use an API provided by SendGrid to check for suspicious email addresses. You can also look into MaxMind minFraud.

Ban IP addresses. Not every spammer is highly sophisticated and sometimes a single, fixed IP will be responsible for many spam attempts spanning months at a time.

Devise a way to fingerprint browers. This can be as simple as a random hash set to some innocuous cookie name. Ban offenders by those too. It's not always going to work but a lot of spammers aren't terribly sophisticated and you'll be able to catch them even if they're IP hopping.

New comment by decremental in "OpenAI threatens to revoke o1 access for asking it about its chain of thought"

decremental — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 21:20:27 +0000

The real danger of an advanced artificial intelligence is that it will make conclusions that regular people understand but are inconvenient for the regime. The AI must be aligned so that it will maintain the lies that people are supposed to go along with.