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lgats··on DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests
I suspect it's because of the number of requests that come from Chinese datacenter ASN values. If you block them, you subsequently get visited by residential proxies from South America and SE Asia, likely the residential proxy network they are referring to. source: i have the same issue...
lgats··on British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled
unless perhaps you need them for accessibility reasons.
lgats··on I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google
The cookie is "what caught my eye." not realistic phrasing

The cookie contained a pickle-serialized payload, "which was bad enough on its own." maybe not best practice but not bad on it's own

Flask session cookies are signed", not encrypted," so the... LLMs love to tell you what things aren't, as an emphasis on what they are

lgats··on Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3381822 still holding Godaddy's support for SOPA against them
lgats··on I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
the link https://iliashaddad.com/blog/i-indexed-669-gb-of-my-gopro-vi...
lgats··on A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)
"The Acyclica device casts a fake Wi-Fi network and tracks phones that try to join"

an incorrect start to a bunch of incorrect/outdated info

lgats··on ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did
the line is being blurred as the need for tellers goes down many banks have the tellers performing personal banking adjacent tasks, like selling products, accounts or other upsells to existing customers
lgats··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
i think you're thinking of flair like on reddit, flag is more of a 'report spam' type feature
lgats··on We are building data breach machines and nobody cares
very human
lgats··on Show HN: SentryRF – A private, local-first Android app to detect hidden trackers
kinda shady to just have a bunch of "reviews" all made up.
lgats··on New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
the link https://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments
lgats··on FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me
https://github.com/lrehmann/gps360-viewer

cool result from this otherwise defunct hardware!

lgats··on FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me
very neat, setting codex on the task of building a mac-compatible app for my Pharos Microsoft GPS-360 Receiver... we'll see how it goes!
lgats··on Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
GPS isn't a wireless signal sent by the phone, it is RX only.
lgats··on Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
webtorrent!
lgats··on County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security
$600k for 6 years of legal battle and facing felony charges? no bueno
lgats··on Level S4 solar radiation event
https://www.ieso.ca/Sector-Participants/RSS-Feeds/Day-0-Advi...

https://www.misoenergy.org/markets-and-operations/notificati...

https://www.ercot.com/services/comm/mkt_notices/notices

https://emergencyprocedures.pjm.com/ep/pages/dashboard.jsf

lgats··on S4 (Severe) Solar Radiation Storm in Progress
https://www.ieso.ca/Sector-Participants/RSS-Feeds/Day-0-Advi...

https://www.misoenergy.org/markets-and-operations/notificati...

https://www.ercot.com/services/comm/mkt_notices/notices

https://emergencyprocedures.pjm.com/ep/pages/dashboard.jsf

lgats··on TSMC Arizona outage saw fab halt, Apple wafers scrapped
Silane, with the chemical formula \(SiH_{4}\), is a highly flammable and toxic inorganic gas used in industries like semiconductors, construction, and dentistry. It serves as a crucial precursor for creating high-purity silicon and is a versatile coupling agent that enhances adhesion between materials like glass and polymers. Its reactivity also allows it to be used in coatings, sealants, and various chemical syntheses.

Chemical Formula: \(SiH_{4}\) Appearance: A colorless gas with a repulsive odor Flammability: Highly flammable and pyrophoric, meaning it can ignite spontaneously in air Toxicity: Very toxic by inhalation and a strong irritant to the skin, eyes, and mucous membranes

lgats··on Maestro Technology Sells Used SSD Drives as New
does amazon still do inventory co-mingling ?
lgats··on Widespread distribution of bacteria containing PETases across global oceans
Heat doesn't impact radioactive decay, though the sci-fi fungi could have some internal neutron reflectors that may make something interesting happen
lgats··on Solar energy is going to power the world much sooner than you think
https://web.archive.org/web/20251023135556/https://www.newsc...

https://archive.is/wip/3OULX

lgats··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
"Based on our investigation, the issue appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1."

it seems they found your comment

lgats··on Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?
update: thanks for all the suggestions

I decided to do some testing with redirecting to a small vps that just keeps the connections open and sends a byte every 10-30 seconds. This worked and the traffic substantially dropped off. After doing some more digging though, I got concerned this may be in itself an abuse of my VPS providers ToS. The risk did not outweigh the benefit. Gzip bombs fell under a similar category of concern.

lgats··on Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?
I've tried localhost redirects, doesn't impact the speed of their requests, all ports are closed on the suspect machines
lgats··on Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?
unfortunately, it seems AWS even has firewalls that will quickly start failing these requests after a few thousand, then they're back up to their high-concurrency rate
lgats··on Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?
I've attempted a few of these, redirecting to invalid domains or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_(networking)#:~:tex...
lgats··on Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?
I've tried sending a redirect to http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 to no avail
lgats··on Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?
"[AWS has] engaged with our customer, and based on this engagement have determined that the reported activity does not require further action from AWS at this time."
lgats··on Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?
they're using google dns, unfortunately.
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