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then you have the bot picking Xbox-esque usernames like BluePanda72 instead

this is visually interesting, but crucially it's also actually fun to play.

i managed to kill three enemies before succumbing to my fate

from https://9to5google.com/2026/03/30/android-developer-verifier... -

> Starting in April, Android Developer Verifier will be installed on devices.

so they're rolling out a system app that will call home to check whether any sideloaded apps have been "verified" with the developer's government ID? and this process will happen regardless of whether the user has enabled the "advanced flow" in Developer settings?

i don't love the HTML response for "payment required" endpoints, not least because it just asks the agent to install an arbitrary NPM package for "full wallet connection and payment UI". seems so easy to exploit maliciously - what's to distinguish genuine payment instructions with crypto stealers

looking good! getting red/inverted video flashes on Firefox, M4 Pro. could be an issue with canvas anti-fingerprinting though, not sure its root cause

what’s the license? “do whatever the fuck you want with the data as long as you don’t get caught”? or does that only work for massive corporations

excellent story, it was both interesting and mildly terrifying. to think that one day software could be malleable seems so wrong to me - you would think having deterministic results is important for programming - and yet with "vibe coding" that really seems to be where it's going.

yeah, i agree with your points on age verification. ironically, the main backlash from the Roblox community was that they were even rolling out verification in the first place - not that it didn't go far enough! i'm sure you'll agree it's a tricky problem to solve - if communication is fully banned, then many children will simply move to lesser-moderated platforms.

i'm not a Ruben Sim fan. while his list of "ERPing" accounts is a good idea, and it's amazing to see real games implement blocks on these players, i find his opinions on the furry community strange and a bit obsessive

visit this page and click the bright blue, prominent button labeled "Convert to Robux":

https://www.roblox.com/my/account#!/billing

you will receive the exact amount you would get from the equivalent conversion rate of the closest "package"

other platforms don't give you unlimited game servers, near-infinite scalability with no initial cost, a potential player base in the hundreds of millions, etc

https://create.roblox.com/docs/get-started/why-build-on-robl... https://create.roblox.com/docs/get-started/tools

i had experience, mainly with web development; that being said, Roblox Studio is very intuitive for building and UI design, as is Lua (specifically Luau).

my advice is to just start building something. the Toolbox has thousands of 3D models which make the initial experience easier and more fun, and there are hundreds of YouTube tutorials teaching you the basics of Roblox scripting.

also use the excellent DevForum, which has thousands of explainer posts:

https://devforum.roblox.com/c/resources/community-tutorials/...

your own source quotes as following:

> To use Communication features like Experience chat, Voice chat, and Party chat, all users must successfully complete an age check.

your words were "They can just disable chat for non age verified accounts". which they have. all "non age verified accounts" cannot use chat.

i have never attempted to assert that Roblox is a completely safe platform, or indeed that their safety team is as effective as it could be - however, your flippant statements were provably untrue with any research.

as for Schlep - while i applaud his stated aims, he was effectively "baiting" predators, offering to move conversations off-Roblox through platforms like Discord to bypass the moderation enforced by Roblox. in general, i fundamentally hate the idea of predator hunters; it seems so strange to monetize justice in this way, especially when it seems they care more about the content than the outcome of their "cases"

1. they have

2. they do (to the extent they can)

3. obviously they have a safety team. they have a dedicated page about it:

https://about.roblox.com/safety

playing Roblox got me into game development, and helped to teach me the basics of general programming. i did have previous experience from Python etc, but Roblox gave me a breeding ground for actually doing something with those skills.

existing on a forum doesn’t mean they work for Roblox. i’m also on DevForum and last i checked i’m not working for them

enough money to cash out via DevEx, Roblox's developer program, every month or so ($110). it's absolutely not a salary - there are barely five people playing at any given time - but given i've done nothing in a year, it's appreciated.

edit: looked at the old stats online. a few years back that game was pulling $1,500+ with no effort each month

these days, Roblox BedWars averages 36K on weekends:

https://romonitorstats.com/experience/6872265039/

however, Hypixel seems to have overtaken it! last Saturday, it peaked at 39,000 concurrent players. i prefer the original gamemode anyway

even tiny roblox games make money. i developed for a small game (~10m plays) a few years back and i still earn a decent residual from player revenue, even as the game slowly loses traction

i don't get a paywall when accessing (maybe ublock?) but either way:

https://archive.ph/DbTn2

fascinating article. while i certainly sympathise somewhat with Alex - it is clear his actions are at least in part a consequence of mental conditions - i can't help but feel like being caught wasn't his plan as the article seems to suggest, and he wanted chaos upon the prison's opening, as some kind of strange payback or revenge

from my (limited) experience of ChatGPT versus Claude, i get the same. ChatGPT will always add another "prompt" sentence at the end like "Do you want me to X?" while Claude just answers what i ask.

looking at my history recently, Claude's most recent response is literally just "Exactly the right move honestly — that's the whole point."

no you couldn't. that wouldn't be considered end-to-end encrypted in any modern sense

they don't. it's an optional process, and many users don't change their git config to use the provided email

you're not just formulaic, you're an entirely ai-generated comment

while i’m definitely a newcomer in HN terms, i love seeing things like this on the front page. it’s certainly interesting

this sounds wrong. billing is usage-based - what were you even paying for? it's very possible that you had some random metric somewhere which had crazy usage.

a better summary from the site:

> We examine the extent to which security against a fully malicious server holds true for three leading vendors who make the Zero Knowledge Encryption claim: Bitwarden, LastPass and Dashlane [...] The attacks range in severity, from integrity violations of targeted user vaults to the complete compromise of all the vaults associated with an organisation.

caveat not properly addressed in the blog post: all "attacks" are assuming full takeover of web servers, which is certainly a scenario that should be protected against, but isn't really a vulnerability unless chained with something else.

almost all online services would be "vulnerable" in this way - take almost any login system. an RCE on a system hosting a login page would obviously be vulnerable to account takeover

better link here (the technical details): https://zkae.io/

doesn't look AI-generated. even if they have made a mistake, it's probably just from the rush of getting a postmortem out prior to root cause analysis

iirc polymarket doesn't explicitly rule against this, and neither does the law. prediction trading like this operates as "commodities" trading, so they have no obligation to prevent this, and indeed they have an financial incentive to let it continue (assuming others don't leave the platform!)