Hacker News: janmo

New comment by janmo in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

janmo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:19:27 +0000

His robots.txt explicitly allows bots including LLM bots to scrape his site

New comment by janmo in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

janmo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:18:31 +0000

> I closed port 443

> Now closing https service is obviously just a temporary fix

Probably the best starting point would be to edit the robots.txt file and disallow LLM bots there. Currently the file allows all bots: http://acme.com/robots.txt

New comment by janmo in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

janmo — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:51:09 +0000

And at the bottom:

What can I do?

Please try again in a few minutes.

New comment by janmo in "Tinnitus Neuromodulator"

janmo — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:32:39 +0000

The only way to temporarely get rid of my tinnitus (completely gone or at least very reduced for up to 30 seconds) is to listen to this beep tone from 8 to 12 KHZ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNf9nzvnd1k

apparently the phenomenon is called residual inhibition. If only there was a way to make this work permanently...

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

janmo — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:47:01 +0000

Depends what you are looking for. Is it real time quotes?

IEX data is now free after 15minutes instead of 15milliseconds.

One option is the Databento US Equities Mini for 200 USD per month. If I understand it correctly it is some sort of weighted average between multiple exchanges.

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

janmo — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:10:15 +0000

Hopefully they will provide cheap market data like IEX did in its beginning.

New comment by janmo in "Python: The Documentary [video]"

janmo — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 02:18:07 +0000

It is a very subjective take indeed

New comment by janmo in "Why Grok Fell in Love with Hitler"

janmo — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:16:02 +0000

Looks like they trained it on the 4Chan /pol dataset

New comment by janmo in "Show HN: I built the tool I wished existed for moving Stripe between countries"

janmo — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:42:30 +0000

Where/what object would you like to use the company name field in?

> For the Invoice, but also to clearly identify the customer, for a B2B customer you have the company name and the name of the person in charge for the subscription. Both are essential. Currently Stripe only has a "name" field.

Can you describe a situation where you need to do an invoice correction on subscriptions (ie how do you handle this now)?

> The customer put a wrong address, a wrong or missing VAT number. Then a few months later the accountant notices the mistake and you have to issue a correction.

Currently Stripe is clearly focused B2C, but I am doing B2B.

New comment by janmo in "Show HN: I built the tool I wished existed for moving Stripe between countries"

janmo — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:54:37 +0000

I was in the same situation as the OP 2 years ago and because of the migration nightmare I kept both accounts, new subscriptions would occur in the new account while old ones would stay in the legacy account.

Stripe has many issues, the missing migration is one. In my case there is alos the fact that there is no "company name" field and there is no way to issue an invoice correction for subscriptions... This makes it problematic for B2B use cases. I have alrady contacted them multiple times to ask them to add these very basic features but to no avail.

Had I known this before I would probably not have used them.

New comment by janmo in "Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux"

janmo — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:32:36 +0000

The passports contain a digital signature and a DSC (Document Signing Certificate). This DSC is signed by a CSCA certificate which you can download from the ICAO Public Key Directory. Link here: https://pkddownloadsg.icao.int/

New comment by janmo in "Authors are accidentally leaving AI prompts in their novels"

janmo — Sun, 25 May 2025 17:54:28 +0000

After vibe coding now we get vibe books

New comment by janmo in "Show HN: Photoshop Clone Built in React"

janmo — Sun, 25 May 2025 14:02:14 +0000

Photopea is really amazing, we even use it professionaly

New comment by janmo in "Show HN: Photoshop Clone Built in React"

janmo — Sun, 25 May 2025 13:58:38 +0000

It is a bit disappointing, almost every feature I click it says that it is still in develoment.

New comment by janmo in "Drinking champagne could reduce risk of sudden cardiac arrest, study suggests"

janmo — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 06:22:05 +0000

It is quite irresponsible to come out with news articles like this when it is known that overall alcohol has very negative effects on the health.

Lab Leak: The True Origins of Covid-19 – The White House

janmo — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:06:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43728759

Points: 18

# Comments: 6

New comment by janmo in "Nearly $13M stolen from Abracadabra Finance in crypto heist"

janmo — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:32:18 +0000

Not surprised something like this happened, one of the persons behind Abracadabra had been outed as being Michael Patryn, Co-founder of QuadrigaCX.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/sdsp0i/shoc...

New comment by janmo in "European Cloud, Global Reach"

janmo — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:12:05 +0000

The timeline is way too suspicious and the wording too broad. The encrypted container was decrypted only 8 days after the server was "imaged".

The term cryptanalysis is very, very broad, it could be anything.

The Freedom Hosting operator was in the process of moving his servers away from OVH, and they somehow found the last server remaining at OVH.

New comment by janmo in "European Cloud, Global Reach"

janmo — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:21:30 +0000

If these takedowns were lawful, why do they lie and hide the details about how they did it?

Read carefully the sections related to the encrypted containers and the OVH servers and tell me your opinion: https://www.justice.gov/d9/press-releases/attachments/2019/0...

New comment by janmo in "European Cloud, Global Reach"

janmo — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:02:53 +0000

They intercepted and read the messages of most users, yet the number of arrests is significantly lower than the total number of SkyECC and EncroChat users.

Not only that, but they also have charged and are attempting to jail the creators of these phones/end-to-end messaging apps.

With what is happening it is becoming pretty much impossible to provide backdoor free communication tools within the EU.