Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month
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 […]
Betty White’s shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II
On December 31, 2021, the beloved actress Betty Marion White Ludden (1922–2021) passed away at 99 years old, weeks shy of her hundredth birthday. Countless tributes and condolences from around the country poured in, honoring her and remembering her vast legacy. Even the U.S. Army tweeted about her passing, noting how Betty White had served […]
Free the Internet: The Tor Project’s annual fundraiser
Is the internet today the internet you want for future generations? What if instead of for-profit greed, rampant privacy violations, and pervasive government spying, we could have a different relationship with the internet? What if we could FREE THE INTERNET from the chains of surveillance and censorship? At the Tor Project, along with our incredible […]
Next steps for BPF support in the GNU toolchain
This article brought to you by LWN subscribers Subscribers to LWN.net made this article — and everything that surrounds it — possible. If you appreciate our content, please buy a subscription and make the next set of articles possible. Support for BPF in the kernel has been tied to the LLVM toolchain since the advent […]
Lead Limited Brain and Language Development in Neanderthals and Other Hominids?
The study’s co-authors included Janaina Sena de Souza, Sandra M. Sanchez-Sanchez, Jose Oviedo, University of California San Diego; Marian Bailey and Matthew Tonge at Southern Cross University; Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Southern Cross University and University of Johannesburg; Justin W. Adams, University of Johannesburg and Monash University; Christine Austin, Manish Arora, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount […]
America’s Semiconductor Boom is Real [video]
Hacker News – The Good Parts
16 Oct, 2025 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 it must be some kind of nerd stuff since it looks so odd and doesn’t resemble Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, etc., which she knows but […]
Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments
Most benchmarks tell us how AI coding models perform in carefully constructed scenarios. But they don’t tell us what developers actually think when they use these tools every day. That gap is why I built a Reddit sentiment analysis dashboard to see how real engineers compare Claude Code vs Codex in the wild. You can […]
I Bypassed Amazon’s Kindle Web DRM Because Their App Sucked
TL;DR I bought my first ebook from amazon Amazon’s Kindle Android app was really buggy and crashed a bunch Tried to download my book to use with a functioning reader app Realized Amazon no longer lets you do that Decided to reverse engineer their DRM system out of spite Discovered multiple layers of protection including […]
When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it
@ChenCravat In an old version of Windows (Windows 98 iirc) if you took screenshot of a video from media player and paste it into paint, and resume media player, video would play inside paint. Do you why it happened? It is still bugging me to this day. — Yasar Arabaci @ysar.bsky.social (@y_arabaci) July 18, 2025 […]