Hacker News: wbmvahttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wbmvaHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:10:16 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by wbmva in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"]]>Do you know where the doxxed info ultimately originates from? It turns out that the archives leaked account names. Try Googling what happened to volth on Github.

]]>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:48:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103993wbmvahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103993https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103993<![CDATA[New comment by wbmva in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"]]>On the network layer, I don't know. But on the WWW layer, archive.today operates accounts that are used to log into websites when they are snapshotted. IIRC, the archive.today manipulates the snapshots to hide the fact that someone is logged in, but sometimes fails miserably:

https://megalodon.jp/2026-0221-0304-51/https://d914s229qk4kj...

https://archive.is/Y7z4E

The second shows volth's Github notifications. Volth was a major nix-pkgs contributor, but his Github account disappeared.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/58164

]]>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:13:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103707wbmvahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103707https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103707<![CDATA[New comment by wbmva in "Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site"]]>I found an intersting thing in the Wikipedia discussion. See the "Comment as:" text in the post form.

https://archive.ph/2021.04.17-204557/http://ama-critic32.blo...

Other interesting wp links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nora_Puchreiner https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/Renamed_...

]]>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:57:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47065534wbmvahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47065534https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47065534<![CDATA[New comment by wbmva in "Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site"]]>by the way, masharabinovich got renamed (vanished) on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid...

]]>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:33:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47065240wbmvahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47065240https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47065240<![CDATA[Linux, the PC program from hell (The Times, 1997)]]>Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/19990829231247/http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/97/04/20/stiinnsnd01001.html?1717300

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