Hacker News: pencilcode

New comment by pencilcode in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

pencilcode — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:28:03 +0000

ai slop analysis finding CF detects non javascript capable browsers with no punchline

New comment by pencilcode in "Software factories and the agentic moment"

pencilcode — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 09:05:46 +0000

heard from a vp recently, software developers are committing seppuku.

New comment by pencilcode in "When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype"

pencilcode — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:46:53 +0000

Just had my manager submit 3 PRs in a language he doesn’t understand (rust) and hasn’t ran or tested and is demanding quick reviews for hundreds of LoCs. These are tools but some people are clueless..

New comment by pencilcode in "Cloudflare scrubs Aisuru botnet from top domains list"

pencilcode — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 22:55:15 +0000

Find it a pity that the decision was to remove them instead of owning how the ranking is made. it’s going to be very very hard to differentiate between bots and humans at the dns query level, if possible at all. DNS magnitude is about the dispersion of source ips/networks and if this is a distributed bot net, it makes sense. and it’s about 1.1.1.1 queries, not overall dns queries, which they couldn’t possibly obtain. See this more as proof of the impact of these botnets, which I found super interesting. Removing them just makes it poorer imho.

New comment by pencilcode in "Show HN: Comparing product rankings by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity"

pencilcode — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 09:09:56 +0000

Brands will ofc start gaming this and enshitification ensues

New comment by pencilcode in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

pencilcode — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:54:57 +0000

Donate donate to Ukraine https://u24.gov.ua/ Trump is simply abject

New comment by pencilcode in "Two Useful Prompts to Explore Intent and Behaviour"

pencilcode — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 12:31:20 +0000

TIL Schrödinger Asshole - nice to be able to put a name on it

New comment by pencilcode in "Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright"

pencilcode — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 23:13:55 +0000

It’s pretty good actually. Used in a small scraping site and worked without a hitch.

New comment by pencilcode in "Cortical Labs: "Human neural networks raised in a simulation""

pencilcode — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 07:06:56 +0000

This gives me nightmares tbh. Love that they say that they’re happy and healthy, lol.

New comment by pencilcode in "Ask HN: Isn't ChatGPT unfair to the sources it scraped data from?"

pencilcode — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 14:50:49 +0000

At the minimum, systems like chatgpt should be forced to link to their sources, so it gives something back and so that its assertions can be verified - right now, it’s just good at bullshitting through questions.

New comment by pencilcode in "Cloudflare servers don't own IPs anymore so how do they connect to the internet?"

pencilcode — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 18:49:15 +0000

Is the geofencing country level only? So if, using warp, I use trip advisor and go and see nearby restaurants it will have no idea of what city I’m in? Guessing that’s not so but wondering how it works

New comment by pencilcode in "Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust"

pencilcode — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 07:06:33 +0000

Monopolies in the long term tend to lead to higher prices because without good competition what’s the incentive to sell with low profit margins? So, sell cheap for years, kill any competition, then the market is yours and you can do whatever you want to the inevitable detriment of the consumer. The consumer also looses in monopolies.

New comment by pencilcode in "Summary of June 8 outage"

pencilcode — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 10:05:59 +0000

Thought it surprising that amazon.com uses fastly when they have their own cdn

New comment by pencilcode in "Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal"

pencilcode — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:23:16 +0000

Cloudflare’s warp might help here

New comment by pencilcode in "Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and grocery stores"

pencilcode — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 08:10:36 +0000

Since it’s missing all the nutrients in the soil and only has those purposefully put in, in the long run I suspect it will be optimized for profit and we’ll get very poor food as a baseline, worse than the one grown in soil on average.

New comment by pencilcode in "Python infrastructure DDoS ongoing"

pencilcode — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 23:33:21 +0000

Maybe cloudflare could help?

New comment by pencilcode in "Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Found Out"

pencilcode — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 10:43:02 +0000

Freedom of speech is both a right and a responsibility. You are free to say what you want but you are also responsible for it. If you lie, slander, etc to make a profit then you should pay in some way. Tbh I don’t understand how people like Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson get away with so much. Much of it blatant making things up / lying about people.

New comment by pencilcode in "Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless"

pencilcode — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:08:23 +0000

Although if the object is single threaded too many reads might overload it. Or is the object then replicated?

New comment by pencilcode in "Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless"

pencilcode — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:04:06 +0000

Would something like a tinyurl clone also be a good use case for this? On a first hand look, it does look good.

New comment by pencilcode in "French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave"

pencilcode — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 07:00:35 +0000

Men should be given the opportunity to bond very early on with their kids too. Being there as a father.