Hacker News: rabinovich

New comment by rabinovich in "Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?"

rabinovich — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:40:29 +0000

Revealing publicly available information (actually publicly available, in the sense of "any person can easily look this up", not "publicly available" in a sense of "publicly available in leaked databases", which actual doxxers use as an excuse for their actions) isn't doxxing.

Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?

rabinovich — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:30:40 +0000

archive.today has recently (I noticed this, like, 3 days ago) started automatically making requests to someone's personal blog on their CAPTCHA page. Here's a screenshot of what I'm talking about: https://files.catbox.moe/20jsle.png

The relevant JS is:

   setInterval(function() {
     fetch("https://gyrovague.com/?s=" + Math.round(new Date().getTime() % 10000000), {
       referrerPolicy: "no-referrer",
       mode: "no-cors"
     });
   }, 300);

Looking at this blog, there seems to be exactly one article mentioning archive.today - "archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet" (https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-...), where the person running the blog digs up some information about archive's owner.

So perhaps this is some kind of revenge/DOS attack attempt/deliberately wasting their bandwidth in response to this article? Maybe an attempt to silence them and force to delete their article? But if it is, then I have so many questions. Like, why would the owner of the archive do that 2.5 years after the article was published? Or why would they even do that in the first place, do they not know about Streisand effect?

I'm confused.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740

Points: 140

# Comments: 69

New comment by rabinovich in "YouTube AI error costs creator his channel over alleged link to Japanese account"

rabinovich — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:09:50 +0000

"A popular tech YouTuber with over 350,000 subscribers has lost his channel after YouTube’s automated systems flagged him for an alleged connection to a completely unrelated Japanese channel that received copyright strikes."

YouTube AI error costs creator his channel over alleged link to Japanese account

rabinovich — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:36:52 +0000

Article URL: https://piunikaweb.com/2025/11/04/youtube-ai-error-terminates-enderman-channel/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45812901

Points: 119

# Comments: 82

Ghostarchive, a Website Archive

rabinovich — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 19:35:29 +0000

Article URL: https://ghostarchive.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45552014

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Wikimedia projects' mobile domain sunsetting

rabinovich — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:02:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Mobile_domain_sunsetting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45461454

Points: 1

# Comments: 0