hunter2_ (u/hunter2_)

hunter2_ commented on The value of hitting the HN front page mooreds.com/wordpress/arc... · Posted by u/mooreds

mooreds · 4 days ago

> I have a model that, given a headline, predicts if the story will get >10 votes.

Do you incorporate post time into this model?

This is pure anecdata but I've found that certain posting times lead to more upvotes for what feel like the same type of stories.

hunter2_ · 4 days ago

There is surely a combination of location and sleep schedule contributing to this, and each have cultural implications: maybe British users gravitate toward certain topics, maybe the best developers tend to be night owls, etc. -- and then you've got folks who use these sites while they work, while they commute, while they fall asleep...

It would be interesting to see some sort of personas-over-a-day graph.

hunter2_ commented on Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025 gfw.report/blog/gfw_uncon... · Posted by u/kotri

Hizonner · 4 days ago

> You can only point to IPs in China from DNS servers in China - if you try to use, say, Route53 in the US and add an A record there, you'll get a nasty email (fail to comply, and your ports get blocked again, possibly for good).

Wait what? So I can DoS any Web site in China by creating a rogue DNS record that points to its IP address, even under a completely unrelated domain? How would they even find those records?

hunter2_ · 4 days ago

I guess they would find it the moment someone in China using a Chinese resolver tries to resolve your rogue record, since that would recurse to one of the root mirrors in China, which presumably feeds this mechanism.

Seems like a very minor speed bump in your plan, though: presumably something like https://www.chinafirewalltest.com would achieve that, or send a few emails for folks to click.

hunter2_ commented on Perplexity Response to Cloudflare twitter.com/perplexity_ai... · Posted by u/Tokumei-no-hito

skeledrew · 19 days ago

> bypassing a bot block is a violation of the owners right to decide whom to admit?

There is only a violation if the bot finds a way around a login block. Same for human. But whatever is on the public web is... public. For all.

hunter2_ · 19 days ago

So it's ok to block someone "because you didn't include a session token I gave you in exchange for knowing the password" but it's not ok to block someone "because you didn't stick to manually-operated user agents as I told you via robots.txt"? What about not letting someone play level 42 "because you didn't complete level 41"?

A web server providing a response to your request is akin to a restaurant server doing the same. Except for specific situations related to civil rights, they are free to not deal with you for any reason.

hunter2_ commented on Fine dining restaurants researching guests to make their dinner unforgettable sfgate.com/food/article/d... · Posted by u/borski

satvikpendem · a month ago

Sounds like the site thinks you're an AI bot, I tried on Firefox and Chrome with an ad blocker and it loads just fine for me. Are you running any VPNs etc?

hunter2_ · a month ago

Aside: I keep hearing of "AI bot" detection, but how does such a detector know that the script (if I may use this term instead of bot) uses ML (or some similar technique that falls under the AI umbrella) and why is that worse than (or noteworthy relative to) one that doesn't in the context of blocking?

hunter2_ commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) · Posted by u/david927

creakingstairs · 3 months ago

An open-source, self-hostable app for sending out newsletter to your friends and families. I'm mostly making it for myself because I want to share what I've been up to and family photos, without uploading it to Facebook or whatnot.

At the moment, the flow goes like this:

1. During the week, write posts for things that have happened.

2. Posts can be assigned to groups. (family, friends etc).

3. At the end of the week (or month), the app automatically creates a newsletter for each group by pulling posts assigned to each group. Add some final touches yourself and send it off!

4. Every newsletter will come with a link to download all images.

I'm trying to design it to be as old people friendly as possible which meant making the experience as simple as it can get. This made me settle on email newsletters. Emails are ubiquitous, have been around and will be around for a while. It's easy to sign up and things are just pushed to you instead of having to go to another app.

Another thing I want is multilingual support as my family is Korean my in-laws are not.

I'm hoping to get an MVP working this week and get some testing done with my own parents and in-laws.

hunter2_ · 3 months ago

Can a recipient be a member of multiple groups, for example, if I happen to be among coworkers and family (or whatever)? If so, hopefully I would get one newsletter containing all the posts tagged as any of my groups. But this means the potential number of different newsletters grows exponentially relative to the number of groups (although in practice, it would be extremely unlikely that a huge number of combinations actually exist) which might or might not matter, depending on whether each recipient already gets a bespoke copy (greeting them by name, click tracking, etc.) or if you're relying on listserv style distribution.

hunter2_ commented on The scientific “unit” we call the decibel lcamtuf.substack.com/p/de... · Posted by u/Ariarule

dagw · 3 months ago

Imagine being told that your TV had an aspect ration of ":16"

We kind of have that with people talking about a screen or image being "2k" and then expect you to infer what the actual resolution and aspect ratio is from context.

hunter2_ · 3 months ago

The real absurdity of 2k/4k/etc is that those refer to approximate horizontal pixel counts, when "lines" (vertical pixel count) such as 480/525/1080/etc has been the typical dimension for such a long time. Why the switch? In the 16:9 world, ~2k horizontal is close enough to ~1k (1080) vertical, and ~4k horizontal is close enough to ~2k (2160) vertical, etc. so it can't be that the horizontal numbers round to the nearest k better than the vertical numbers.

hunter2_ commented on Possibly a Serious Possibility kucharski.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/samclemens

hunter2_ · 4 months ago

"Rare" versus "common" is an interesting one. They sound like antonyms, but I don't think the typical probabilities are really symmetrical. Maybe something like 0%-10% for rare (although some sources say 5%) and something like 40%-100% for common.

hunter2_ commented on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup pcworld.com/article/26517... · Posted by u/airstrike

codr7 · 4 months ago

Battery use is a pretty big concern these days; also, some users like running several things at the same time.

hunter2_ · 4 months ago

For the local OS and sustained workloads like video playback, yes, battery optimization is huge. For an individual app with bursty compute, less so, plus some of that inefficient code can run in the cloud instead, which is costly, but premium subscriptions can pay for it, and power plants are now colocated with data centers so power transmission cost is negligible. The incentive to be efficient is insufficient.

hunter2_ commented on Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain status.zoom.us/incidents/... · Posted by u/RVRX

popcalc · 4 months ago

If you password reset my personal Gmail account I will sic the FBI on your tail without a second thought. Not cool.

hunter2_ · 4 months ago

The story says that the password reset link was received, which proves the vulnerability without actually denying service, causing loss, etc. As an analogy, the attacker found a key to a door but did not proceed to open the door.

It doesn't say the password reset link was used to change the password, which would deprive the account owner access and grant unauthorized access which of course would be illegal.

hunter2_ commented on Browser extensions put 4M users at risk of cookie exposure secureannex.com/blog/sear... · Posted by u/speckx

gruez · 4 months ago

Manifest v3 has this by allowing you to grant access on clicking the extension's toolbar button, rather than all sites all the time.

hunter2_ · 4 months ago

The trouble with that is plenty of extensions legitimately need to run on all sites all the time for the user to get the value they want. Ad blockers, coupons for all stores, etc.