Hacker News: joelkoen

Allumeria receives false DMCA from Microsoft over infringement of Minecraft IP

joelkoen — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:17:08 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/PhoenixSC/comments/1r0utq6/allumeria_receives_false_dmca_from_microsoft_over/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972718

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by joelkoen in "How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground"

joelkoen — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:56:27 +0000

> What happens if a train has to stop in the middle of the tunnel, and you phone for help? [...] the system has been deliberately configured to transmit the location of the nearest tube station, where access can be arranged. That’s why sometimes you might check your smartphone map, and it will display the “wrong” location, because that’s the best one for a 999 call to use.

This doesn't seem correct - cell towers don't just transmit a location that phones then pickup and use? Unless this is some emergency specific feature I'm not aware of?

New comment by joelkoen in "$96M AUD revamp of Bom website bombs out on launch"

joelkoen — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:10:58 +0000

> Bom tried to explain that the site's refresh - prompted by a major cybersecurity breach in 2015

A perfect example of the state of IT in Australia.

New comment by joelkoen in "Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user"

joelkoen — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:18:24 +0000

That's neat, could you explain how you achieved that?

I tried a year or so ago and had to round trip to my Android over mobile data so it was too high latency for what I needed. If there's a way to connect to a phone on the same LAN/WiFi but scrape using its mobile network I would be very interested.

A community-led fork of Organic Maps

joelkoen — Mon, 12 May 2025 11:55:46 +0000

Article URL: https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c#update2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43962001

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by joelkoen in "Show HN: Beatsync – perfect audio sync across multiple devices"

joelkoen — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 04:29:52 +0000

This is the most impressive demo I've ever seen - no app download, no account sign up, no crap, just works instantly. Well done.

New comment by joelkoen in "Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta"

joelkoen — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:51:52 +0000

> Point-of-Sale Systems — process transactions regardless of internet connectivity

Mentioning this as an example use case is simply untrue, right?

New comment by joelkoen in "OpenAI's bot crushed this seven-person company's web site 'like a DDoS attack'"

joelkoen — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:20:38 +0000

Haha yeah just noticed they call Bytespider "TokTok's crawler" too

New comment by joelkoen in "OpenAI's bot crushed this seven-person company's web site 'like a DDoS attack'"

joelkoen — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 22:52:15 +0000

> “OpenAI used 600 IPs to scrape data, and we are still analyzing logs from last week, perhaps it’s way more,” he said of the IP addresses the bot used to attempt to consume his site.

The IP addresses in the screenshot are all owned by Cloudflare, meaning that their server logs are only recording the IPs of Cloudflare's reverse proxy, not the real client IPs.

Also, the logs don't show any timestamps and there doesn't seem to be any mention of the request rate in the whole article.

I'm not trying to defend OpenAI but as someone who scrapes data I think it's unfair to throw around terms "like DDOS attack" without providing basic request rate metrics. This seems to be purely based on the use of multiple IPs, which was actually caused by their own server configuration and has nothing to do with OpenAI.

New comment by joelkoen in "How to monitor your local weather with Grafana"

joelkoen — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:45:19 +0000

If you're lucky a neighbour may already have a compatible weather station nearby, which you can freely collect data from as long as you're in range ;)

New comment by joelkoen in "IMG_0001"

joelkoen — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:21:52 +0000

Anyone aware of public archives of videos like this? These are so cool and I imagine that in the future this would be an incredibly valuable peek into history given how raw it is.

New comment by joelkoen in "Horse – The Organized Browser"

joelkoen — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:54:23 +0000

You can achieve the exact same thing in Firefox using the Sidebery extension: https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery

GH Archive: public dataset of developer activity on GitHub

joelkoen — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 02:42:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gharchive.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42048141

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by joelkoen in "Former Intel CEO says splitting Intel isn't good for the U.S."

joelkoen — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 00:54:57 +0000

Given his position, is it possible the Intel CEO is a little biased? /s

New comment by joelkoen in "Ask HN: What's your favorite YouTube video, ever?"

joelkoen — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 12:39:46 +0000

omg look at this cute puppy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUXcfNkepdg

New comment by joelkoen in "Wigle.net: All the networks, found by everyone"

joelkoen — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 02:08:47 +0000

It is `_nomap`, not `no_map`.

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/1725632#zippy=%2Chow-...

Bad Apple but it's a scannable QR code [video]

joelkoen — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 11:48:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HG8HJ7tbO8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41765055

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by joelkoen in "Wardriving for a place to Live"

joelkoen — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 02:12:17 +0000

How is this related to wardriving?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving

New comment by joelkoen in "Ask HN: 19yr old child suffering from internet gaming disorder? Any suggestions?"

joelkoen — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 04:06:27 +0000

I'm 17, recently had a similar experience to what you describe. As others have mentioned, and from my own experience, this may indicate they are avoiding a much bigger problem. If there was a bigger problem they're trying to avoid, do they trust you enough to tell you? Would you truly listen and support them, or would your immediate reaction be against how they feel and in favour of _your opinion_ on "their entire future life"?

Aside from your perspective on their grades and time spent gaming, you don't list any other details...

If you wanted to discuss this in more detail with someone younger feel free to reach out, happy to chat.

New comment by joelkoen in "The secret of Minecraft (2014)"

joelkoen — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 00:27:07 +0000

Have you tried Better than Adventure[0]? It's a fork of Beta 1.7.3 for exactly this reason!

[0] https://www.betterthanadventure.net/