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werds··on Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed
Are the crypto addresses known/recorded anywhere? would be interesting to see on the blockchain how much was stolen this way.
werds··on Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall
love this, never seen it before. thank you for making me aware of it
werds··on Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth
You can see Scotland from Wales! https://map.alltheviews.world/longest/-3.9754324057705617_53...
werds··on An Homage to 90s –/Public_HTML Hosting
nice project! reminded me about https://tilde.club/ in the same vein
werds··on Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf]
The metrics for that were pretty much: 2 World Wars and 1 World Cup.
werds··on Show HN: Whittle – A shrinking word game
Congrats on your imminent acquisition by the New York times (a'la Wordle)
werds··on Telo MT1
cool bro
werds··on "Et Tu, Ilya?"
when 550 of 700 employees back Sam its hard to argue with
werds··on Sam Altman Sacked
Fractional CEO Elon incoming
werds··on The office is a theatre for work (2019)
read back what you have written here in a couple of days with a clear head, you are talking total nonsense man
werds··on Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved
skiffle band
werds··on Conway's Game of Life digital clock
has anyone run Doom on it yet?
werds··on The age of average
ironically the author uses one of the most popular squarespace templates in the muted pink which is called out in the article
werds··on Show HN: IngestAI – NoCode ChatGPT-bot creator from your knowledge base in Slack
Start for Free.... then what? give you all my data and then you hold it hostage for a fee which is undisclosed up front.
werds··on Show HN: IngestAI – NoCode ChatGPT-bot creator from your knowledge base in Slack
prompt: "what do my employees really think about me?"
werds··on AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to
no marketer optimizes for clicks, they optimize for conversions.

so unless this bot is going to go onto the advertisers site and purchase something, which can then be attributed back to the viewed impression, then this will just be ignored by ad tech like any other bot click

werds··on Spotify reducing employee base by about 6%
I would happily see Spotify die, they have exploited the artists more effectively than any other organization since the advent of streaming.
werds··on An odd discovery on Spotify
https://vintageobscura.net/ https://imr.party/ https://www.nts.live/ https://sohoradiolondon.com https://worldwidefm.net/ https://www.dublab.com/ https://netilradio.com/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_6music https://poolsuite.net/ https://somafm.com/

i only listen to live radio, this is my station rotation (in addition to KEXP)

werds··on An odd discovery on Spotify
i cannot fathom how your example here supports the idea that Bieber playing 24/7 in a gym is stealing money from the niche artist who are listen to by only a handful of fans?
werds··on The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool
this is a bit silly
werds··on I regret my website redesign
hey since looking at your site, i have seen about 10 of your TinyPilot ads. I am certainly not in the market for one of these and probably not that many other people who viewed the article site are, so i suggest you dial back on the retargeting budget following this hacker news traffic, save yourself some money. The hacker news readers who are in the market have already seen your best piece of marketing for the product today, this article.
werds··on Paper Airplane Designs (2013)
#justiceforderek
werds··on Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
yea this is aimed at people who earn £30k a year, but still have to be seen wearing a £1.5k Canada Goose jacket
werds··on The Last Question
please share your full list with us.
werds··on Beautiful Soup
its not useful in those cases, but usually for those js rendered sites you can replicate the ajax requests which happen and get nicely formed json documents to parse through instead.
werds··on Ask HN: Tesla is making us move or quit. Would I get severance?
FYI: Its a good idea to pool your cash with some colleges in the same situation to pay for the legal advice, i have done this before, if you have all have the same questions and scenario there is no need for you all to pay multiple times for the same advice.
werds··on SomaFM
i have to shoutout to another online radio station that is run in the same vein as SomaFM https://vintageobscura.net/
werds··on McDonald’s to Exit from Russia
you guys must eat at McDonalds a real lot to be able to discern any difference, it's exactly the same food in slightly different shapes.
werds··on Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users
Hack Roulette
werds··on Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart beating soundly
Im sure it is morally justifiable to people of any religion, when performing the procedure is the only chance the patient has to continue living.
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