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Loving this, congratz on the

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<3 tysm

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I had hit a throttle now. That’s a “subtle" way to tell me to slow down.

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Does this count like 2?

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Some thoughts deserve a smaller audience

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I'm really interested to play around with textlog for a bit. I miss the space that once was Twitter and its constraints. Let's see if we find any users here ... ;)

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Well you found one! I run Nix on my house cluster.

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The Typst language is Turing complete. Does that mean it could be the target of a C compiler? Could I compile the Linux kernel to Typst? Certainly, one could build a mean web server with it. Look out .php, here comes

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Funny, I was gonna say Anathem as well. I've read it multiple times and I keep thinking back to it as it increasingly becomes harder to unplug from tech in daily life.

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I am in the middle of my yearly reread and with the way things are going I am tempted to become an avout.

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become an avout possible self-harm content They didn't mention this Iconography...

Hello people 👋

Hej!

Tjohej ;)

Tjoflöjt!

Γειά!

Hi!

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你好！

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Bonjour

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I have made this longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter ~ Blaise Pascal So, should we all give AI agents more time so they'll write things shorter?

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no yes🎉👍🤔

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Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders our view. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing. - Blaise Pascal You reminded me of this other quote, from what I think might be my absolute favourite passage in B.Pascals Pensées, thank you!

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It's one of the sad ironies of this computer stuff that the simpler solutions take longer to conceive than the complicated ones.

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I hate crawlers that don’t advertise they’re crawlers. ’n badly written. They don’t respect the canonical URLs so they keep getting themselves into a loop instead of actually crawling the site properly. They make the logs really hard to read. Can’t block them they’re distributed.

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I am curious what an actual solution to this problem could be. Everything I've read about it feels like a bandaid — from robots.txt to cloudflare turnstile — there has to be a better way!

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For this particular problem though, I feel like if the crawlers are coming from domestic / residential IP addresses and they lack a distinctive http header or user agent, it is indistinguishable from a denial of service attack and must be treated as such.

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It would require permaban on IPs which would require permalogging of IPs in order to track them, and we are currently obfuscating them before hitting the DB with daily rotating salt so an anonymous user can’t be tracked. So we’d have to give up privacy/security :/

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But as long as people can still use the site it's OK, right? Seems like the problem is often self-inflicted, either because the site is so bloated that answering even GET-requests is burdensome, or because they're trying to monetize the data and so must block non-paying scrapers.

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My solution was to add an env var to disable logs from anonymous. At least now will be able to read the logs.

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, tonight, August 7th 2026. doing some security hardening and UI-UX fixes

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hi! welcome and congrats on the ! you can are free to linkify it if you use the full url.

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These days Ive been learning how to deal with guilt and feeling gulti about things I didn't cause. NGL is hard man, how do you start cntl-z your brains on that

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things I wish that lasted longer lip combo food papyrus gnostics my makeup

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oh, and Prussia.

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I think I should add Victorian style architecture, that went away too fast

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I hate devops (or rather what it ended up becoming)

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what did it end up becoming in your perspective?

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Wherever I look, it's always a big mess. Unmitigated complexity pileup. Unpaid tech debt.

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You don't love writing YAML all day and debugging stupid pipelines that download the same binaries thousands of times a day while wondering why we spend so much on bandwidth?

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Laying in bed isn't the same as resting, and it sucks.

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Is it just my phone or is HN down? I haven't been able to access at all today

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Just your phone. Works for me. Try

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That works. About time for a new phone though

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I think I will stop here. maybe

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Hello, textlog!

hello! welcome! :)

Vagyis attól még, hogy trehány vagyok, még működhetne jobban is az anyagmegmaradás törvénye, mint éppen errefelé, vagyis errefelé pláne működnie kellene, mégsem ezt teszi.

So even though I'm clumsy, the law of conservation of matter could still work better than it does here, or rather, it shouldn't work here, but it doesn't.

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