Hacker News: stuffoverflow

New comment by stuffoverflow in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

stuffoverflow — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:40:54 +0000

For me the problem is usually finding older videos. Youtube's search heavily favors newer videos to the point of completely hiding older ones even if using the exact video title. They've also removed the possibility of sorting results by date somewhere within last 6 months.

New comment by stuffoverflow in "VNDB founder Yorhel has died"

stuffoverflow — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:55:09 +0000

Yorhel was also the creator/developer of ncdu among many other open source projects. He was a big open source advocate. The sites he hosted (vndb.org and manned.org) have automated database dumps and source code fully available. Recommend to check out his website https://dev.yorhel.nl/

New comment by stuffoverflow in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

stuffoverflow — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:36:04 +0000

Archive.today's attack on https://gyrovague.com is still on-going btw. It started just over two months ago. Some IPs get through normally but for example finnish residential IPs get stuck on endless captchas. The JS snippet that starts spamming gyrovague appears after solving the first captcha.

New comment by stuffoverflow in "The beauty and terror of modding Windows"

stuffoverflow — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:28:16 +0000

I recently had the idea of somehow integrating Everything's folder size index to explorer and after failing to do it with claude code, I found out that Windhawk + Better file sizes does just that. I would have expected at least some performance degradation but in fact it was the opposite and made it feel much snappier. A huge QoL improvement to explorer that I've now installed to all my Windows PCs. Note that you need the alpha version (1.5) of Everything for best performance.

New comment by stuffoverflow in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"

stuffoverflow — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:17:17 +0000

Yes I have Finnish IP and just before I wrote that post I tested it to make sure it was still happening.

I assume it must be a blanket ban on Finnish IPs as there has been comments about it on Reddit and none of my friends can get it to work either. 5 different ISPs were tried. So at the very least it seems to affect majority of Finnish residential connections.

New comment by stuffoverflow in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"

stuffoverflow — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:25:41 +0000

The weird thing is that there was nothing new in that blog post. And on top of that it couldn't conclusively say who the owner of archive.today is, so no one still knows.

New comment by stuffoverflow in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"

stuffoverflow — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:12:35 +0000

I've not seen any evidence of them editing archived pages BUT the DDOSing of gyrovague.com is true and still actively taking place. The author of that blog is Finnish leading archive.today to ban all Finnish IPs by giving them endless captcha loops. After solving the first captcha, the page reloads and a javascript snippet appears in the source that attempts to spam gyrovague.com with repeated fetches.

New comment by stuffoverflow in "US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA"

stuffoverflow — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:31:29 +0000

Sanctions in this context mean visa restrictions (travel ban to US). So not financial sanctions. Just thought it would be a good thing to clarify.

New comment by stuffoverflow in "Omnilingual ASR: Advancing automatic speech recognition for 1600 languages"

stuffoverflow — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:08:36 +0000

This seems like a massive improvement for openly available local ASR. Even the 300M model outperforms whisper-large-v3 according to the paper's benchmarks.

New comment by stuffoverflow in "Claude Haiku 4.5"

stuffoverflow — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:36:43 +0000

I can't tell if anthropic is serious about "model welfare" or if it's just a marketing ploy. I mean isn't it responding negatively because it has been trained that way? If they were serious, wouldn't the ethical thing be to train the model to respond neutrally to "harmful" queries?

New comment by stuffoverflow in "VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model"

stuffoverflow — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:48:56 +0000

VibeVoice-Large is the first local TTS that can produce convincing Finnish speech with little to no accent. I tinkered with it yesterday and was pleasantly surprised at how good the voice cloning is and how it "clones" the emotion in the speech as well.

New comment by stuffoverflow in "ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links"

stuffoverflow — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 21:49:21 +0000

Academictorrents has monthly dumps of all reddit submissions and comments even after the API restrictions.

New comment by stuffoverflow in "Anandtech.com now redirects to its forums"

stuffoverflow — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 21:37:16 +0000

Archiveteam did a full site crawl[1] when Anandtech announced they were stopping. You can browse the warc.gz files like a regular web page using https://replayweb.page

Alternatively you could use solrwayback[2] to index and browse the warc files.

1: https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/job/202409012...

2: https://github.com/netarchivesuite/solrwayback

New comment by stuffoverflow in "Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down"

stuffoverflow — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 07:34:32 +0000

That 27C limit seems to have been due to the energy crisis in 2022 and restrictions were lifted in 2023.

The last source you cited is AI slop and is not even related to your message.

New comment by stuffoverflow in "OpenAI is retaining all ChatGPT logs "indefinitely." Here's who's affected"

stuffoverflow — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:41:09 +0000

This whole case is even more stupid when you take in to account how NYT's paywall is implemented. Anyone can bypass it just by refreshing the page and stopping it immediately after contents become visible.

I don't know what ChatGPT uses to browse web but it wouldn't surprise me if it repeated stuff from those paid articles because it uses wget or something similar that doesn't support js and therefore the paywalls weren't effective.

New comment by stuffoverflow in "VPN providers in France ordered to block pirate sports IPTV"

stuffoverflow — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:09:36 +0000

I assume it will be implemented on DNS level and yeah it is possible to use a different DNS.

New comment by stuffoverflow in "LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation"

stuffoverflow — Thu, 15 May 2025 06:36:49 +0000

Google AI studio, ChatGPT and Claude all support this. Google AI studio is the only one that let's you branch to a separate chat though. For ChatGPT and claude you just edit the message you want to branch from.

New comment by stuffoverflow in "I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC"

stuffoverflow — Mon, 12 May 2025 09:21:24 +0000

I have yet to see concrete evidence that disabling Windows update and windows defender would elevate risk of having the system compromised in any meaningful way.

I installed Windows 10 2016 ltsc on a VM at the end of last year out of curiosity to test that. Disabled wupdate and defender before letting it access the internet so that it was basically 8 years behind on any updates. I tried browsing all kinds of sketchy sites with Firefox and chrome, clicking ads etc. but wasn't able to get the system infected.

I would guess that keeping your browser updated is more important.

New comment by stuffoverflow in "Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper"

stuffoverflow — Sun, 11 May 2025 23:37:25 +0000

Playwright supports Firefox, chromium and webkit

New comment by stuffoverflow in "HTTrack Website Copier"

stuffoverflow — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 08:48:47 +0000

There definitely are tools for scraping basically any site by using the browser itself to make sure all dynamically loaded stuff gets intercepted correctly. Browsertrix[0] is probably the most well known and complete scraper for that. They offer it as a paid service for convenient setup but its open source and can be self-hosted as well.

0: https://webrecorder.net/browsertrix/