Hacker News: goatsi

New comment by goatsi in "Facebook is cooked"

goatsi — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:41:52 +0000

>But on the other hand, I hadn't logged in in nearly a decade!

This is the cause. With a long dormant account, facebook has no real content to show you. Your friends will almost all be dormant as well, even the facebook pages and groups you were part of are likely to have fallen silent. Facebook will feed you directly from the slop firehose rather than show you a blank feed.

New comment by goatsi in "Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door"

goatsi — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:40:20 +0000

>user: claude password: claude2026!

>user: claude password: claude123

I wonder if these have come from leaks or if someone has a script that generates the top ~xx most likely passwords based off the username.

New comment by goatsi in "Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord"

goatsi — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 03:47:21 +0000

It's everything mentioned that's then filterable via tags, there's a joe-recommended tag for books that are directly recommended by one of the cohosts.

New comment by goatsi in "Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog"

goatsi — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:25:09 +0000

Finland starved thousands to death in it's own camps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Karelian_concentration_ca...

New comment by goatsi in "Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers"

goatsi — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:24:50 +0000

All ads are searchable. They found the exact words and phrases that regulators used and then made sure those were clean.

>As a result, Meta decided to take the tactic global, performing similar analyses to assess “scam discoverability” in other countries. “We have built a vast keyword list by country that is meant to mimic what regulators may search for,” one document states. Another described the work as changing the “prevalence perception” of scams on Facebook and Instagram.

New comment by goatsi in "Project Gemini"

goatsi — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:55:30 +0000

I remember a comment on here years ago from someone in GCP who mentioned that they did not control the "Cloud" namespace. So any VP could launch a new project and call it cloud something and make people very confused about why it wasn't showing up in the cloud dashboard and API.

New comment by goatsi in "Using Generative AI in Content Production"

goatsi — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:59:28 +0000

If you ask the Adobe stock image generation for "Adventurer with a whip and hat portrait view , Brown leather hat, jacket, close-up"

It gives you an image of Harrison Ford dressed like Indiana Jones.

https://stock.adobe.com/ca/images/adventurer-with-a-whip-and...

New comment by goatsi in "Becoming a compiler engineer"

goatsi — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:52:21 +0000

Step one: no engineering education, just get a job that a company calls engineering.

>In 2023, I graduated from MIT with a double major in math and computer science.

New comment by goatsi in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"

goatsi — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:13:07 +0000

Speaking of sustained scraping for AI services, I found a strange file on your site: https://book.sv/robots.txt. Would you be able to explain the intent behind it?

New comment by goatsi in "The Nonprofit Feeding the Internet to AI Companies"

goatsi — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:00:25 +0000

The article makes it clear that Common Crawl is ignoring copyright take down requests, and only modified it's search engine to fake having taken down content.

New comment by goatsi in "Pixnapping Attack"

goatsi — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:25:46 +0000

They also need to know where in the app the code for each service is displayed, so they are grabbing the code for your bank and not for your World of Warcraft account.

New comment by goatsi in "DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia"

goatsi — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:16:21 +0000

China permitted/sponsored rebels to seize a decent chunk of the Myanmar side of the Chinese/Myanmar border after a number of Chinese citizens (allegedly including some undercover Chinese police) were killed in a scam compound there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_1027

New comment by goatsi in "Removing these 50 objects from orbit would cut danger from space junk in half"

goatsi — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:09:55 +0000

They actively move to avoid collisions rather than tumbling uncontrollably.

New comment by goatsi in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

goatsi — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 19:35:22 +0000

I'm glad to see you use "most of this war", acknowledging that Israel has at times totally blockaded all food and medicine from Gaza (and not for logistic or military reasons, but as a pure pressure tactic as stated by Israeli officials).

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/02/middleeast/israel-halts-gaza-...

And it's true, Israel is not required to accept aid from other countries for Gaza. They could instead provide the full required resources for civilians in the occupied areas themselves.

New comment by goatsi in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

goatsi — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 19:15:06 +0000

The Israeli government in March of this year. And it wasn't a suggestion, it was an implemented policy.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/02/middleeast/israel-halts-gaza-...

New comment by goatsi in "Thoughts on Cloudflare"

goatsi — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 01:43:14 +0000

It's pretty disappointing that the author (writing in 2025) says "perhaps to maintain its status as the world’s largest botnet operator," and links to a Spamhaus report from Q1 of 2020.[0]

If you check the most recent version of the report from Spamhaus (Jan to June 2025)[1], Cloudflare is nowhere to be seen, and Digital Ocean, who they recommend as a Cloudflare alternative is listed as third largest botnet host in the world.

Looking back through the historical reports this isn't a new phenomenon, in Q4 of 2022 Digital Ocean was ranked #2 and Cloudflare was down at #17.

[0]https://www.spamhaus.org/resource-hub/botnet-c-c/botnet-thre...

[1]https://www.spamhaus.org/resource-hub/botnet-c-c/botnet-thre...

New comment by goatsi in "Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one (1773)"

goatsi — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 05:40:21 +0000

The Confederacy initiated the civil war by attacking a US government military facility, not Lincoln.

New comment by goatsi in "SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people"

goatsi — Wed, 14 May 2025 15:56:00 +0000

TOTP and SMS 2FA prevent credential stuffing attacks, which is very valuable considering how bad people are with password reuse and how many breaches with plaintext or weakly hashed passwords there have been.

New comment by goatsi in "Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court"

goatsi — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 20:51:13 +0000

He's being blamed for stealing the 2020 election from Trump, so no donations or ring kissing seem to be enough.

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/14/2025/trump-officials-s...

New comment by goatsi in "Hackers strike Australia's largest pension funds in coordinated attacks"

goatsi — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:04:55 +0000

Having to call/visit and social engineer an employee is an order of magnitude more work than just logging in with stolen credentials, which can be entirely automated. SMS 2FA is valuable when it can prevent credential stuffing attacks. It's a vulnerability when it can be used to reset passwords and recover accounts.