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New comment by rtdq in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

rtdq — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:34:59 +0000

Dude, you're claiming that there's no likelihood of people getting swindled out of their money by handing it over to strangers. So your reaction is to play the bot card? We're done. You're clearly not arguing in good faith here.

New comment by rtdq in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

rtdq — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:31:35 +0000

What is bot logic exactly?

You keep describing this as not a likely or realistic scenario. But why is the likelihood even of relevance here? The way to avoid the worst case i.e scammed of your money, is to not even put it on the table in the first place.

New comment by rtdq in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

rtdq — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:50:31 +0000

I don't follow, and I'd be concerned that this opens up a cottage industry of bots generating plausible looking repositories that unwitting contributors would attempt to contribute to. We already know that bots are astroturfing repos to generate overinflated star counts. I'd say the least crap option here is to honeypot PR contributions from bots

New comment by rtdq in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

rtdq — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:30:07 +0000

The worst case is that someone loses out on $10, no? How does this work if the maintainer is the swindler?

New comment by rtdq in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

rtdq — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:42:05 +0000

> We're rewiring internal processes with AI agents, automating the reviews, approvals, and handoffs to speed us up

Uh, if this is what I think it means, I wouldn't trust using a product where their company thinks that approvals for reviews can be automated.

New comment by rtdq in "The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it"

rtdq — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:36:58 +0000

Ask anyone who is a gamer what they think of AI. I guarantee you'll get a universally negative reaction because of RAMageddon.

New comment by rtdq in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

rtdq — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:02:43 +0000

And still, in the year of our lord 2026, GitHub does not support IPv6.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10539

New comment by rtdq in "We May Be Living Through the Most Consequential Hundred Days in Cyber History"

rtdq — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:26:59 +0000

There are two polar opposite vibes in this comment section: one guy above is calling FOMO, we should all get into the security trade, and yours is FUD.

I hope this all lands somewhere in the middle but honestly who knows at this point.

New comment by rtdq in "Ask HN: How do small companies do recruitment?"

rtdq — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 16:26:58 +0000

Pass, wasn't privy to the financials on this one.

What I do know is that for various reasons we struggled with direct hires and needed to grow quickly. So I guess the numbers somehow worked in its favour.

New comment by rtdq in "Ask HN: How do small companies do recruitment?"

rtdq — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 16:06:41 +0000

We ended up making use of hiring partners (basically consultancy companies) for this. They gave us access to a somewhat vetted candidate pool to interview from i.e. they could skip a tech test stage of an interview process.

Overall it has been a positive experience. It allowed us to scale up our engineering numbers relatively quickly. Potential cons to consider are the culture changes that come with it, the risk of outsourcing too much domain knowledge (direct vs. indirect hires) and potential time zone differences. It has also bought us time to focus on growing our direct hire count, which takes longer.