HughParry

but rises again, harder and stronger

The new Audi Q9 is absurd - https://www.topgear.com/car-news/suvs/gargantuan-new-audi-q9...

If you push me into a bush then you'll make me a pollinator as well

> The regulation should not include AI-generated ads "not intended to mislead users, for example, generating an image of a living room to showcase a sofa, or enhancing product visuals for presentation purposes", the letter said.

While ads have always been misleading (think gluing burgers together) this just seems lazy to me. Put a real sofa in a room. If that's so hard to do then how am I going to put your sofa in my house!

Building a map guessing game where you're given a map with the labels/axis redacted, and then you have to guess what it's a map of. e.g. the map would be average height by country, but you would just get a map where countries like The Netherlands were the darkest, and then you'd have to try and figure out that it's average height!

The hinting system for it is a bit work in progress (trying to tune the difficulty and feedback from hints)

https://figarooo.com/

I’d probably think it looked alright.

I think it’s the fact that my eyes have been blasted with a certain visual ‘vibe’, and I’ve come to associate it with apps that are, on average, a bit lazy

I wonder why the firefox CSS rendering engine prefers to smooth out. Looks like a dramatically different implementation, but maybe that's just because it's an edge case of rendering

I’ve never seen people on the likes of blackhatworld selling hacker news accounts or services. The glass half full take on this is that hn is surprisingly robust in its ability to deal with vote manipulation.

Ah I mean others disliked the results.

Make up your own mind I suppose, I doubt you will find them rewarding: https://youtu.be/rQabMPpdQnk?si=Fm9Yqj7EwAjYp5np

Somebody spent a small fortune trying this a while ago with disliked results https://nypost.com/2025/04/13/entertainment/ailing-doctor-wh...

Please don't capture my cursor on your homepage, and if you have to, please don't apply smoothing to is so that it doesn't go where I want it to! I appreciate that it's pretty, but making your site annoying to use can only increase churn

RIP Danya <3

The outage did make me realise I’d be happier watching episodes of House instead

Most services appear to work, aside from actual video streaming for me

Posted on the other thread as I thought it was pretty interesting:

>Roughly 0.5% odds on him on polymarket before he was announced

Roughly 0.5% odds on him on polymarket before he was announced

Good shout. Can always block based on origin header though (when under the assumption that it's a legit browser) since it's a forbidden header name.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Or...

Just had a look - looks like pretty regular/reasonable cloudflare default stuff as far as I can tell. The headers relating to error reporting are the only thing that stand out a little, though it doesn't look unreasonable.

---

Headers

---

HTTP/2 301

date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:59:51 GMT

content-type: text/html

content-length: 167

location: <the website in question>

cache-control: max-age=3600

expires: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 14:59:51 GMT

report-to: {"endpoints":[{"url":"https:\/\/a.nel.cloudflare.com\/report\/v4?s=JZu4FOa%2ByynaFOXWYlxaePF9KdRQ0qGUJkfm1F1aK2m3VEx6idlvWlb5go%2B08hgSog1zm1zuMobXcVK2BkR4mQD0SEGU%2Bzp2oC6mXPgQs%2FUzvOH7LbqAG96jtf9KNqemV8Q%3D"}],"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}

nel: {"success_fraction":0,"report_to":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}

server: cloudflare

cf-ray: 90708be24810e8fe-LHR

alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400

server-timing: cfL4;desc="?proto=TCP&rtt=59748&min_rtt=41108&rtt_var=43898&sent=7&recv=8&lost=0&retrans=1&sent_bytes=3535&recv_bytes=789&delivery_rate=33797&cwnd=225&unsent_bytes=0&cid=e5052200af7e27a5&ts=145&x=0"

Just feels like such an odd play lol. If they could organically generate leads/traffic that I'd be willing to get extorted over, then surely they would also have the means to start a marketing agency that I'd be willing to pay far more for?

Presumably just throwing a 403 if they have this referrer is ok and won't have a weird SEO impact or something?

Don't have an affiliate program, and I don't think we've got anything to suggest we will have one in the future (frankly our billing process is pretty bare bones and affiliate stuff isn't something we're looking at right now).

We're a small bot security/captcha company and pretty regularly get various attacks thrown at us - figuring out if somebody is up to something more along those lines was my main concern.

Sure, but it's not their site, it's mine!

And they're not obvious mouse slips like redirecting googl.com -> google.com - they're more of the form <verb>mydomain.com.

I was mostly interested in what the actual play from them here is tbh

Depending on what you're looking for, this is the kind of thing that P2P protocols were made for.

Check out https://syncthing.net/

Use https://prosopo.io/ and it'll be easier :)

people are a bit happier here to have an argument and then get on with their lives though

Looks awesome!

How does it handle taking instruction about things like what stack to use?

E.g. if I'm building a new prototype, I personally would want to build with Tailwind, but lots of people think Tailwind is evil and prefer prototyping with <other_css_thing_they_like>

Also curious to hear what you think of the quality of the output code. My experiences with LLMs doing frontend code has been a pretty mixed bag personally

The danger is that we rely almost entirely on Google to solve this.

The monopoly they have as a search engine means there is effectively sole responsibility on them to maintain a usable internet.

I genuinely feel sorry for the people that now have to figure out how search engines work in a world where anybody can generate reams of passable (albeit not unique) content in minutes.

I've got a 20 year old set of their books in the basement. It's got facts which were wrong at the time of writing.

At the end of the day it's just a single centralised source

Demo looks very slick.

How far off being able to integrate into a CICD pipe is this? I'd love if this could trigger off a pr, then block merging since it wasn't sure how to execute some regular user flow (even if that were due to it not understanding how it could perform an action, since this maybe means my flow doesn't make sense).

We don't currently have this functionality, though if there's demand for non JS CAPTCHA products we'll definitely spec it out and build it.

If you want to request features/chat about any special requirements you have for a CAPTCHA, feel free to pop an email to dev@prosopo.io