test-ipv6.com will stay online (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
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Recent: Retiring Test-Ipv6.com - https://news.ycombinator.com/item/id45481609 - Oct 2025 (185 comments)
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Recent: Retiring Test-Ipv6.com - https://news.ycombinator.com/item/id45481609 - Oct 2025 (185 comments)
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Post office in France rolls out croissant-scented stamp (❄️ Score: 150+ in 1 week)
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CTVNews
French post office rolls out croissant-scented stamp
Scented stamps designed to celebrate artisan croissants hit letterboxes across France on Wednesday, honouring the world-famous delicacy.
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Ruby Core Takes Ownership of Rubygems and Bundler (🔥 Score: 163+ in 1 hour)
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www.ruby-lang.org
The Transition of RubyGems Repository Ownership
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Hacker News – The Good Parts (Score: 151+ in 18 hours)
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Martin's blog
Hacker News - The Good Parts
The other day, my twelve-year-old daughter asked me what platform I spend most of my time on when I'm on my phone or computer.
She intuitively noticed that ...
She intuitively noticed that ...
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Live Stream from the Namib Desert (🔥 Score: 152+ in 3 hours)
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Blogspot
Live Stream From the Namib Desert
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You did no fact checking, and I must scream (🔥 Score: 150+ in 1 hour)
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Terence Eden’s Blog
You did no fact checking, and I must scream
I'm neither a journalist nor a professional fact checker but, the thing is, it's has never been easier to check basic facts. Yeah, sure, there's a world of misinformation out there, but it doesn't take much effort to determine if something is likely to be…
The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation (🔥 Score: 174+ in 59 minutes)
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50Centadjustedforinflation
50 Cent Adjusted for Inflation
109 Cent
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4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence (Score: 152+ in 10 hours)
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Dropsafe
The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself…
Ofcom — driven by the letter of British law that they are bound to follow, but still Ofcom — are quietly making Britain look (a) very silly and (b) as if we haven’t yet shucked-off the Americ…
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Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month? (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6DK9Z
I have been struggling with a bot– 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; crawler)' coming from AWS Singapore – and sending an absurd number of requests to a domain of mine, averaging over 700 requests/second for several months now.
Thankfully, CloudFlare is able to handle the traffic with a simple WAF rule and 444 response to reduce the outbound traffic.
I've submitted several complaints to AWS to get this traffic to stop, their typical followup is:
We have engaged with our customer, and based on this engagement have determined that the reported activity does not require further action from AWS at this time.
I've tried various 4XX responses to see if the bot will back off, I've tried 30X redirects (which it follows) to no avail.
The traffic is hitting numbers that require me to re-negotiate my contract with CloudFlare and is otherwise a nuisance when reviewing analytics/logs.
I've considered redirecting the entirety of the traffic to aws abuse report page, but at this scall, it's essentially a small DDoS network and sending it anywhere could be considered abuse in itself.
Are there others that have similar experience?
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6DK9Z
I have been struggling with a bot– 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; crawler)' coming from AWS Singapore – and sending an absurd number of requests to a domain of mine, averaging over 700 requests/second for several months now.
Thankfully, CloudFlare is able to handle the traffic with a simple WAF rule and 444 response to reduce the outbound traffic.
I've submitted several complaints to AWS to get this traffic to stop, their typical followup is:
We have engaged with our customer, and based on this engagement have determined that the reported activity does not require further action from AWS at this time.
I've tried various 4XX responses to see if the bot will back off, I've tried 30X redirects (which it follows) to no avail.
The traffic is hitting numbers that require me to re-negotiate my contract with CloudFlare and is otherwise a nuisance when reviewing analytics/logs.
I've considered redirecting the entirety of the traffic to aws abuse report page, but at this scall, it's essentially a small DDoS network and sending it anywhere could be considered abuse in itself.
Are there others that have similar experience?
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EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars (Score: 153+ in 7 hours)
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Rest of World
EVs are depreciating much faster than gas-powered cars
Plummeting resale values are threatening to derail the world's transition to electric transportation.
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Andrej Karpathy – AGI is still a decade away (🔥 Score: 157+ in 1 hour)
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Dwarkesh
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
"The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”
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Scientists discover intercellular nanotubular communication system in brain (Score: 158+ in 4 hours)
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Science
Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network
Intercellular nanotubular networks mediate material exchange, but their existence in neurons remains to be explored in detail. We identified long, thin dendritic filopodia forming direct dendrite–dendrite nanotubes (DNTs) in mammalian cortex. Super-...
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OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months (🔥 Score: 161+ in 1 hour)
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Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
OpenAI Needs $400 Billion In The Next 12 Months
Hello readers! This premium edition features a generous free intro because I like to try and get some of the info out there, but the real indepth stuff is below the cut. Nevertheless, I deeply appreciate anyone subscribing.
On Monday I will have my biggest…
On Monday I will have my biggest…
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Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP (🔥 Score: 157+ in 2 hours)
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Simon Willison’s Weblog
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …
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AI has a cargo cult problem (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
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Ft
AI has a cargo cult problem
Spending vast sums and inflating an investment bubble is no guarantee of unleashing technological magic
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GOG Has Had to Hire Private Investigators to Track Down IP Rights Holders (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
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TheGamer
GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders
Good 'ol detective work.
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Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support (❄️ Score: 153+ in 2 days)
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Aiven
Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support
Exploring what's interesting about UUIDv7 support using a demo crab store.
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The pivot (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
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How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet (❄️ Score: 150+ in 1 week)
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Gingerbeardman
How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet ⌘I Get Info
Many years ago, while working at Apple and running a lab at WWDC, I met a guy who was using a piece of Apple software designed for creating interactive ads t...
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A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
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NPR
A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal
An amateur satellite tracker stumbled across the signal, which is coming from Starshield satellites in a "hidden" part of the radio spectrum.
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