Hacker News: topak3000

New comment by topak3000 in "Show HN: How the IP Leasing Market Fakes Legitimacy"

topak3000 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:21:01 +0000

Is this an ad post by Proxyon?

New comment by topak3000 in "I reverse-engineered "Direct" traffic and found 40% was AI bots"

topak3000 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:07:41 +0000

How do you determine AI bots traffics if there is no user-agent?

New comment by topak3000 in "What if I lie to maxmind?"

topak3000 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:00:18 +0000

is your id redditbannedme?

New comment by topak3000 in "PayPal/Braintree's new chargeback policy forces merchants to accept fraud <$1000"

topak3000 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:18:14 +0000

Any other payment gateway?

New comment by topak3000 in "ChatGPT knows my IP geolocation"

topak3000 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 06:52:41 +0000

Based on my assumption, ChatGPT likely knows your IP address and deduces your location using IP geolocation technology, similar to ip2location.io. However, it probably does not use this information when querying its fine-tuned model. After it receives results from the model, it may reformat the response using your local context, which could include names of places.

New comment by topak3000 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

topak3000 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 06:41:32 +0000

IP2Location LITE has free data on ZIP code and timezone for enrichment. You can consider it too.

New comment by topak3000 in "The madness of SaaS chargebacks"

topak3000 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 03:21:37 +0000

Merchants can use FraudLabs Pro to screen orders and assess their fraud risk. To combat friendly fraud, merchants can blacklist customers to block them from making future purchases.

New comment by topak3000 in "Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me"

topak3000 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 02:41:48 +0000

You can block traffic by AS effectively. In my case, I have seen a large number of crawlers from Tencent and Alibaba.

I signed up for the free AS database from IP2Location LITE and then blocked the ranges from those ASNs.

New comment by topak3000 in "One person was able to claim 20M IPs"

topak3000 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 06:33:01 +0000

Subscribed to several residential proxies and claimed all IPs.

New comment by topak3000 in "IP-Check.Online – Professional IP Quality Detection Platform"

topak3000 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 06:22:35 +0000

What sets this site apart from other IP geolocation APIs like ip2location.io?

New comment by topak3000 in "Show HN: IP-nose, C++ Géo-locator"

topak3000 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 03:22:56 +0000

Are you using any free geolocation API such as IP2Location.io?

New comment by topak3000 in "Ask HN: Startup getting spammed with PayPal disputes, what should we do?"

topak3000 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:28:12 +0000

This is a very sad incident of carding attempts. You can sign up for FraudLabs Pro service and they have velocity check to prevent carding if it is from similiar browsers, IP or email addresses.

New comment by topak3000 in "Geocoding APIs compared: Pricing, free tiers and terms of use"

topak3000 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 06:19:16 +0000

IP2Location.io offers a free tier of 50,000 queries monthly to get started with. This allows users to explore its capabilities and compares with othe providers.