Hacker News: ribtoks

New comment by ribtoks in "Prompt-injecting my Upwork job listing"

ribtoks — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:40:18 +0000

I feel like we need a library of better prompt-injections because not all (obvious) bot applications added the prefix.. Do you have any references?

Prompt-injecting my Upwork job listing

ribtoks — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:40:18 +0000

Article URL: https://intmaker.com/upwork-prompt-injection/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109902

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by ribtoks in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

ribtoks — Sat, 09 May 2026 05:18:55 +0000

There are other captcha alternatives like Turnstile, for example Private Captcha, Altcha etc. - they are owned by mostly “small” independent companies, they are not visual captchas (proof-of-work based) and very accesssible.

New comment by ribtoks in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

ribtoks — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:16:33 +0000

I remembered $30 from some comment I read, but didn't look for it later. If it was yours, thank you! (def. thank you for the Wallmart link! - would you like a credit in the blogpost like a quote?

New comment by ribtoks in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

ribtoks — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:50:01 +0000

> actually human generated

Human written, not generated.

> HN isn't popular enough to be invoked as a source

Excuse me, what do you mean there? The author happens to read HN too.

Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged

ribtoks — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:56:10 +0000

Article URL: https://privatecaptcha.com/blog/google-cloud-fraud-defence-wei/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063199

Points: 705

# Comments: 365

New comment by ribtoks in "Ask HN: What's your experience with PoW captchas against form spam?"

ribtoks — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:40:05 +0000

Have you seen Private Captcha? It's main point is privacy and GDPR compliance (while being self-hosted). It's a more modern PoW captcha without the limits of Altcha (mCaptcha is mostly out of equation at this point).

New comment by ribtoks in "Show HN: HCaptcha Reverse Engineered"

ribtoks — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:18:00 +0000

Is there a write-up/walkthrough on this? Would be interesting to read.

Also: this is kind of another nail in the coffin of non-opensource non-pow captchas.

New comment by ribtoks in "We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner"

ribtoks — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:07:46 +0000

Keeping time series in Mongo…

ReCAPTCHA migration to Google Cloud by the end of 2025: what do you need to do

ribtoks — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 22:41:15 +0000

Article URL: https://privatecaptcha.com/blog/recaptcha-migration-to-google-cloud-2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45585908

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ribtoks in "Captcha tests your ability to do nothing"

ribtoks — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:09:09 +0000

Yeah, most people here probably have an overstimulated mind and just doing the opposite for a minute or so can be very tough at first!

New comment by ribtoks in "Captcha tests your ability to do nothing"

ribtoks — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:07:44 +0000

1. At it's core, it's a Proof-of-Work captcha, so compute load depends on the usage pattern. AI (LLMs) does get better at image/audio recognition, but compute task is the same anywhere, does not matter who "clicks" the checkbox.

2. Bots usually have such access patterns that cause compute task difficulty to become prohibitively high, requiring exponentially more CPU resources. This renders bots economically nonviable for submitting forms or scraping website.

New comment by ribtoks in "Captcha tests your ability to do nothing"

ribtoks — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:15:45 +0000

I've heard doing nothing can cause a significant physical discomfort to the impatient mind.

Captcha tests your ability to do nothing

ribtoks — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:15:45 +0000

Article URL: https://privatecaptcha.com/nothing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063065

Points: 5

# Comments: 6

When stock photography agencies started accepting AI images

ribtoks — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:31:42 +0000

Article URL: https://xpiksapp.com/blog/ai-images-on-microstocks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44727368

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ribtoks in "Migrating over 30 lambdas from Serverless Framework with LLMs"

ribtoks — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 09:29:24 +0000

My experience with abandoning Serverless framework, which I will remember with gratitude, despite it's utter enshittification.

Migrating over 30 lambdas from Serverless Framework with LLMs

ribtoks — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 09:29:24 +0000

Article URL: https://intmaker.com/migrate-from-serverless-framework/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44591399

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

How passive is income from microstock photography

ribtoks — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:29:48 +0000

Article URL: https://xpiksapp.com/blog/passive-income-microstock/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34987087

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ribtoks in "Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell"

ribtoks — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 19:58:25 +0000

I made a cross platform desktop app for people who upload their photos and videos to microstock agencies called Xpiks (https://xpiksapp.com). Initially I was selling one-off forever licenses but last year started moving them to subscription. So far progress is steady and I keep working on it. The app is made in C++/Qt and I’m looking for people who might be interested to join.

New comment by ribtoks in "Monitoring Tiny Lambdas"

ribtoks — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 05:36:13 +0000

For me using my lambda is definitely better than having a dependency on yet another external service (like the logz.io advertisement in your comment).