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Fallback are still very useful and won't poison much your cache hits too much if the provider is down anyway.

wut42on Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot

Years ago, I built a sort of camo-proxy like, in Elixir. It was doing full passthrough of the User-Agent because the project that I originally built it for needed it for the upstreams (i don't remember why). Anyway, I ended up pulling it into pleroma -- a couple of months later, we had been informed by some instance owners that google itself were sending them DMCA notices, because it was proxying googlebot's request, with its user-agent!

wut42on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

Exactly the same experience. I really loved GLM5.2 for a while, but after trying it again after riding DSv4 flash (new) for a while, they're mostly at the same capabilities, with GLM being slower and much, much more expensive. A task cost me 2$ where it did very wrong, whereas Flash nailed it almost instantly for like a rounding error on my billing page.

wut42on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

It is a pain from openRouter if you don't define your providers correctly, but for DeepSeek, surely not- the weights aren't released yet and there's only one provider, DeepSeek.

wut42on Your ePub Is fine

> Wipro now manages and distributes any new updates, enhancements, bug fixes, and support requests directly

> Create your new ByteBooks ID using the same email address that you used for Adobe ID

Seems sold mostly.

wut42on Show HN: Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI

Already replied the same in another comment, but I recently got the "YHD-8390" on Aliexpress for around 100$ - has wifi, usb, ethernet, and works pretty well.

wut42on Show HN: Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI

thermal printers are centuries backwards from anything like CUPS.

wut42on Show HN: Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI

An easy way to do this, which I use to print recipes with my TP, is to render the page as an image. I use dom-to-image for that.

wut42on Show HN: Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI

I recently got the YHD-8390 on Aliexpress for around 100$, works pretty well. Connects by Ethernet, USB and Wifi. Having plenty of fun with it.

wut42on Almost All of Vimeo Staff Laid Off After Acquisition by Bending Spoons

Previously: _Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday_ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707699 (three days ago)

wut42on Fakes, Nazis, and Fake Nazis

Which site ? seems to work fine for me.

wut42on UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage

And Australia 2023 outage of Optus, also BGP related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Optus_outage

wut42on UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage

Another Down Detector bullshit article.... it's getting incredibly tiring. Every time a provider (Phone, Internet or even cloud services) suffer issues ALL of them are reported as down.

wut42on NPM stylus package contained malicious code and was removed from the registry

Could be! Other comments (~~can't find them now as the issue got full of useless comments~~ e.g. https://github.com/stylus/stylus/issues/2938#issuecomment-31...) also noted that the GHSA bot have nuked a lot of other npm packages since days or weeks in the same fashion, so it could also be an AI scanner going full full nuclear.

wut42on NPM stylus package contained malicious code and was removed from the registry

That could track but people in the GitHub issue ( https://github.com/stylus/stylus/issues/2938#issuecomment-31... ) have found that no "other" version of Stylus has been released.

wut42on NPM stylus package contained malicious code and was removed from the registry

The package was pulled at: 2025-07-23T03:03:01.239Z

And the GHSA advisory: 2025-07-23T03:03:56Z

So the GHSA was released after the pull (by a minute).

wut42on Show HN: Clippy – a better pbcopy for macOS that handles files properly

already exists, xsel and xclip does that, iirc.

wut42on Chrome's hidden X-Browser-Validation header reverse engineered

I don't see how you can "protect" against a large language model that cannot do browsing.

wut42on 'Gwada negative': French scientists find new blood type in woman

TMZ is a very respectable publication if you compare it to Entrevue...

wut42on Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting

CGNAT does not means unroutable IP, it just means you would only have assigned a small range of ports on a routable IP with others.

wut42on OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%

Hetzner is famously notorious for this, but not enough for publications to pick up this. So by your definitions, YEARS of people talking about their experiences with this is nothing?

wut42on Mistral Code

Isn't Continue released under Apache 2?

wut42on Ask HN: Startup getting spammed with PayPal disputes, what should we do?

Or just a solver API like 2captcha.

wut42on Cloud Run GPUs, now GA, makes running AI workloads easier for everyone

L4 are pretty limited nowadays. It's usually rented at 40ct/hour on other providers.

wut42on Cloud Run GPUs, now GA, makes running AI workloads easier for everyone

Definitely -- and yet it's kinda a feat compared to other solutions: when i tried Runpod Serverless i could wait up to five minutes for a cold start to a even more smaller model than a 4B.

wut42on David Lynch has died

Apparently not! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729717

Funny :)

wut42on David Lynch has died

Thank you. I was hesitating to post the facebook source but back when I submitted there was no other coverage.

wut42on Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation

I get you! In this case it was mostly legitimate. Each brand had a segment; just like Vultr had the cloud segment. It only ate the other ones.

I don't see why Constant exist now tho that it's all Vultr.

wut42on Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation

it was Choopa before being Vultr. They had other brands. Current holding has renamed to "The Constant Company" or something.