Hacker News: tir

New comment by tir in "Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers"

tir — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:26:24 +0000

>the law explicitly allows scraping and crawling.

Nepenthes also allows scraping and crawling, for as long as you like.

New comment by tir in "The effects of Portal 2 and Lumosity on cognitive and noncognitive skills"

tir — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 19:21:46 +0000

Literally the first line of the abstract.

New comment by tir in "New logo"

tir — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:37:31 +0000

Agreed, the '#' had a long history of indicating a channel, like on IRC, and by extension text-based communication.

New comment by tir in "Why Can’t Riding Bikes in America Just Be Normal?"

tir — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:12:28 +0000

When I biked to work, I lived close to the downtown of a mid-sized city in the US - with traffic, I often wound up getting to work faster via bike than car.

New comment by tir in "How and why I run my own DNS servers"

tir — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:03:56 +0000

I'm sure for a mere $25 more a month they'll provide a static address.

New comment by tir in "Bitcoin is no long the only game in crypto-currency town"

tir — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:34:26 +0000

Exactly, if they couldn't even get the title right, what else in the article is going to be incorrect?

New comment by tir in "LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting call to Wichita police"

tir — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 22:18:32 +0000

I think OPs point is you shouldn't be able to kill people by proxy with a simple phone call.

New comment by tir in "Engineers create plants that glow"

tir — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 22:11:35 +0000

Lucifer means light-bringer.

New comment by tir in "How slot machines are designed to be addictive"

tir — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 04:45:25 +0000

No, it's definitely 1/20th of a ream of paper.

New comment by tir in "Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters"

tir — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 22:10:47 +0000

After I did my phone interview and study problems in Python, I was told when I got onsite for whiteboard problems that they really preferred C++ or Java. It was a little late for me to switch mindsets day-of, didn't get enough recommendations to hire.