Hacker News: werds

New comment by werds in "Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed"

werds — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:44:28 +0000

Are the crypto addresses known/recorded anywhere? would be interesting to see on the blockchain how much was stolen this way.

New comment by werds in "Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall"

werds — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:59:32 +0000

love this, never seen it before. thank you for making me aware of it

New comment by werds in "Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth"

werds — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:22:35 +0000

You can see Scotland from Wales! https://map.alltheviews.world/longest/-3.9754324057705617_53...

New comment by werds in "An Homage to 90s –/Public_HTML Hosting"

werds — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:54:09 +0000

nice project! reminded me about https://tilde.club/ in the same vein

New comment by werds in "Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf]"

werds — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:01:35 +0000

The metrics for that were pretty much: 2 World Wars and 1 World Cup.

New comment by werds in "Show HN: Whittle – A shrinking word game"

werds — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:09:17 +0000

Congrats on your imminent acquisition by the New York times (a'la Wordle)

New comment by werds in "Telo MT1"

werds — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 23:27:33 +0000

cool bro

New comment by werds in ""Et Tu, Ilya?""

werds — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:07:50 +0000

when 550 of 700 employees back Sam its hard to argue with

New comment by werds in "Sam Altman Sacked"

werds — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 20:48:06 +0000

Fractional CEO Elon incoming

New comment by werds in "The office is a theatre for work (2019)"

werds — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 15:56:30 +0000

read back what you have written here in a couple of days with a clear head, you are talking total nonsense man

New comment by werds in "Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved"

werds — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 18:20:47 +0000

skiffle band

New comment by werds in "Conway's Game of Life digital clock"

werds — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:04:13 +0000

has anyone run Doom on it yet?

New comment by werds in "The age of average"

werds — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 16:59:51 +0000

ironically the author uses one of the most popular squarespace templates in the muted pink which is called out in the article

New comment by werds in "Show HN: IngestAI – NoCode ChatGPT-bot creator from your knowledge base in Slack"

werds — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 14:31:53 +0000

Start for Free.... then what? give you all my data and then you hold it hostage for a fee which is undisclosed up front.

New comment by werds in "Show HN: IngestAI – NoCode ChatGPT-bot creator from your knowledge base in Slack"

werds — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 14:30:33 +0000

prompt: "what do my employees really think about me?"

New comment by werds in "AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to"

werds — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 20:57:38 +0000

no marketer optimizes for clicks, they optimize for conversions.

so unless this bot is going to go onto the advertisers site and purchase something, which can then be attributed back to the viewed impression, then this will just be ignored by ad tech like any other bot click

New comment by werds in "Spotify reducing employee base by about 6%"

werds — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 15:50:58 +0000

I would happily see Spotify die, they have exploited the artists more effectively than any other organization since the advent of streaming.

New comment by werds in "An odd discovery on Spotify"

werds — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 14:44:03 +0000

https://vintageobscura.net/ https://imr.party/ https://www.nts.live/ https://sohoradiolondon.com https://worldwidefm.net/ https://www.dublab.com/ https://netilradio.com/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_6music https://poolsuite.net/ https://somafm.com/

i only listen to live radio, this is my station rotation (in addition to KEXP)

New comment by werds in "An odd discovery on Spotify"

werds — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 14:33:21 +0000

i cannot fathom how your example here supports the idea that Bieber playing 24/7 in a gym is stealing money from the niche artist who are listen to by only a handful of fans?

New comment by werds in "The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool"

werds — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:21:52 +0000

this is a bit silly