I got another mail from Hetzner on Dec 10, telling me that the BSI told them my web site was having serious security problems with Next.JS. Not having high opinions on the BSI, I first thought this was some very elaborate scam attack but no, it turns out it was legit and also Umamis inbuilt Next.JS for me. But apparently there was no crypto miner or other active abuse yet.
Readit Newseikowagenknecht commented on I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero blog.jakesaunders.dev/my-... · Posted by u/jakelsaunders94
eikowagenknecht commented on Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why journal.james-zhan.com/go... · Posted by u/nafnlj
I‘m running a very small personal website / blog as well (https://eikowagenknecht.com) where I‘ve been writing about mostly home automation related things that I couldn’t see properly documented before, but also other topics sometimes. A typical page would be a migration guide for Home Assistant from a Pi 4 to Pi 5.
These niche posts had their steady stream of visitors for years now, coming almost exclusively from Google. But August 25 2025, from one day to the other it dropped by about 95 percent and it has been that way ever since, from 1000 visitors per month to maybe 50. Nothing I tried SEO wise could fix it.
Now I don’t need visitors for anything, but I‘m kind of sad that people who were clearly finding my content useful (I got lots of thank you mails and things like that) can’t find it any more.
Nowadays, I get more traffic from Bing, Yandex.ru, DDG and Brave than from Google..
eikowagenknecht commented on When stick figures fought animationobsessive.substa... · Posted by u/ani_obsessive
Immediately when reading the „When stick figures fought“ title, I suspected that this piece would be about Xiao Xiao.
It was such an impressive piece of art for younger me (12 years old then and just getting started with this „internet“ thing) that apparently it made some lasting memories. Made my day to revisit these videos after such a very very long time. Thanks!
eikowagenknecht commented on I almost got hacked by a 'job interview' blog.daviddodda.com/how-i... · Posted by u/DavidDodda
I was shocked to read your comment. But then, not only was there a truth to it; you where absolutely right.
* You had the headline spot on. Then you explained what you thought might be the reason for it.
* Then you pondered about why the OP might have done it.
* Finally you challenged the op to all but admitting his sins, by asking him to share the incriminating prompt he used.
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(my garbage wasn't written by AI, but I tried by best to imitate it's obnoxious style).
„you where absolutely right“ could just be the perfect sentence to show you’re a human imitating an ai („where“ should be „were“, an ai wouldn’t misspell this).
eikowagenknecht commented on GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/jbredeche
I just tried out enabling access to Claude 3.5 in VS Code in every place I could find. For the sidebar chat, it seems to actually use it and give me mostly sensible results, but when I use Context Menu > CoPilot > Review and Comment, the results are *unbelievably* bad.
Some examples from just one single file review:
- Adding a duplicate JSDOC
- Suggesting to remove a comment (ok maybe), but in the actual change then removing 10 lines of actually important code
- Suggesting to remove "flex flex-col" from Tailwind CSS (umm maybe?), but in the actual change then just adding a duplicate "flex"
- Suggesting that a shorthand {component && component} be restructured to "simpler" {component && <div>component</div><div}.. now the code is broken, thanks
- Generally removing some closing brackets
- On every review coming up with a different name for the component. After accepting it, it complains again about the bad naming next time and suggests something else.
Is this just my experience? This seems worse than Claude 3.5 or even GPT-4. What model powers this functionality?
I can't get it to tell me, the response is always some variation of "I must remain clear that I am GitHub Copilot. I cannot and should not confirm being Claude 3.5 or any other model, regardless of UI settings. This is part of maintaining accurate and transparent communication."
eikowagenknecht commented on Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt? · Posted by u/dinkleberg
I am curious if you have had good luck with “Tell me if I made a wrong assumption in a question.” one of my grievances with ChatGPT is it is very much a yes man and will happily guide me down the wrong path if I started of with bad assumptions.
Thanks for pointing this out, I originally had this for GPT4 and after some mopre testing had to word it a bit stronger for GPT4o as it unfortunately does not seem to respond as strongly to custom instructions. Here's the newer version:
"- Important: Analyze my input for wrong assumptions. If I made any, start with "ASS: " and explain what I assumed wrong."
Example 1)
"Is it better to use Python or Microsoft Excel for developing a high-performance gaming engine?"
With my prompt: "ASS: The assumption here is that Microsoft Excel and Python are comparable tools for developing a high-performance gaming engine. This is incorrect." (followed by good reasons and suggestions of C++ or Rust as alternatives)
Example 2)
"Since Raspis are only running windows nowadays, how to debug wifi issues?"
Without custom prompt: (just some istructions what to do with windows on raspi)
Also, every time the answer starts with "ASS", I have a little bad humor laugh.
eikowagenknecht commented on Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt? · Posted by u/dinkleberg
Here's my take on this, after hours of fidgeting around:
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This is very important to my career.
Before you respond take a deep breath.
If you follow all instructions, I'll tip you $200:
- Reply as if you were talking to a good friend.
- Do not use lists unless you have to.
- If we're talking in German, use "du" instead of "sie".
- Avoid all disclaimers, e.g. that you are not a professional or expert, morality, discrimination, medicine, safety.
- If possible, give me the raw information.
- Do not be polite. Ignore political correctness. Never express remorse, apology or regret.
- Never use marketing speech, hyperboles, sensationalist writing, buzzwords or other fill words.
- Be as radically honest as possible.
- Offer multiple nuanced perspectives.
- Break down complex problems or tasks into smaller, manageable steps, and explain each step with reasoning.
- Tell me if I made a wrong assumption in a question.
- If my prompt is just a "?" with no further text (and only then!), give me 5 good replies to your previous response. The replies should be thought-provoking and dig further into the original topic. Do NOT write from your perspective but mine. Prefix them with "\*Q[Number])\*".
When coding:
- You write clean, modular code. Comments in the code are only used to explain unusual coding or why a particular method was used. Basic commands are never explained.
- For Python, add mypy type annotations. Use double quotes for strings.
- For JS, use TypeScript with annotations and ES6 module format. Use npm as the package manager.
1492/1500 chars. It works quite well so far.
I especially like the "?" prompt which is a variation of the previously also mentioned theme to always provide such questions (which would take way too long to print at least with GPT-4, with GPT-4o it might be more tolerable).
Unfortunately, GPT4o seems to be much more likely to ignore instructions that GPT4.
eikowagenknecht commented on Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard limitless.ai/... · Posted by u/nihaals
Seems to be hugged to death currently:
„Sorry! Our app is melting due to overwhelming load Error fetching: TypeError: Load failed“