Hacker News: ventegus

New comment by ventegus in "Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog"

ventegus — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:18:17 +0000

Just do not take him for your own roleplay model

New comment by ventegus in "Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog"

ventegus — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:34:41 +0000

taking this very post from flagged trash can and posting again - is definitively a such act

New comment by ventegus in "Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog"

ventegus — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:23:28 +0000

There is a perception that the use of the archive by the HN community has some positive value for the archive.

But in fact:

1. HN uses a free service that someone else pays for.

2. HN abuses its paywall bypass function, which is not its main function, is not advertised (unlike 12ft).

3. HN creates legal problems for the archive by highlighting and framing the archive as a paywall-circumvention tool first.

4. HN promotes doxing.

Who would be more motivated in reducing traffic here?

New comment by ventegus in "A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived"

ventegus — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:31:45 +0000

thetimes.com has a paywall if you visit it from the UK, and full content if you are in the US.

entonces, US-based archive.org "bypasses" this paywall as well:

https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.thetimes.com/culture...

New comment by ventegus in "Anna's Archive is sued for $13T"

ventegus — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:13:08 +0000

It was already in ~~"The Simpsons"~~ "Accelerando"

New comment by ventegus in "Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?"

ventegus — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:06:40 +0000

Actually, I'm not entirely sure on how archive.org achieves its resiliency.

It's a rather interesting question for archive.org, if one were to interview them, that is.

Unlike archive.today, they don't appear to have any issues with e.g. child pornography content, despite certainly hosting a hundred times more material.

They have some strong magic which makes the cheap tricks needless.

New comment by ventegus in "Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?"

ventegus — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:26:22 +0000

They always direct clients to a server abroad. The task is exactly opposite to what CDNs do

New comment by ventegus in "Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?"

ventegus — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:10:37 +0000

e.g. currently most media snapshots contain wartime propaganda forbidden at least somewhere.

RT content verboten in Germany, DW content verboten in Russia, not to mention another dozen of hot spots.

"Other websites" are completely inaccessible in certain regions. The Archive has stuff from all of them, so there’s basically no place on Earth where it could work without tricks like the EDNS one.

New comment by ventegus in "Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?"

ventegus — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:54:26 +0000

Hm, a pro-Kremlin website, banned on Russian state firewall while actively used by Myrotvorets and many gov.ua sites....

New comment by ventegus in "Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study"

ventegus — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:23:33 +0000

How's this supposed to work? It doesn’t even make it through the Cloudflare captcha.

New comment by ventegus in "Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?"

ventegus — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:02:15 +0000

They use EDNS for regional compliance, not for bandwidth optimization.

New comment by ventegus in "Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?"

ventegus — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:24:27 +0000

Did you save it?

New comment by ventegus in "Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?"

ventegus — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:16:21 +0000

They might need to tweak a single word. Streisand readers won’t have a clue which.

Save the page now and compare a week later.

New comment by ventegus in "Google Cache Is Fully Dead"

ventegus — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:59:02 +0000

They check for client IP. True Googlebot always comes from 66.249.*.*

New comment by ventegus in "Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files"

ventegus — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:15:41 +0000

Why not?

Many of us host terabytes of opaque data on platforms like GitHub without ever paying or facing deletion threats.

New comment by ventegus in "Unlock Articles with Paywallskip"

ventegus — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 20:06:43 +0000

wsj has easy-to-bypass paywall but hard-to-bypass antibot/antiscraping solution, so the browser extensions work better than hosted bypassers

New comment by ventegus in "Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage"

ventegus — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:02:09 +0000

It is haters' secret weapon to take archive.today down:

https://x.com/archiveis/status/1809081807452696711