Botspam apocalypse — Cut the cutesy errors — and Sending spammers to password purgatory

Issue #849 — August 05, 2022

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Botspam apocalypse memex.marginalia.nu \| points: 379 \| comments: 321

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Cut the cutesy errors alexwlchan.net \| points: 375 \| comments: 312

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Sending spammers to password purgatory troyhunt.com \| points: 320 \| comments: 147

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Part of my code makes Copilot crash github.com \| points: 270 \| comments: 333

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Ask HN: What HN post made you money? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 239 \| comments: 155

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Old jokes dynomight.net \| points: 231 \| comments: 161

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C99 doesn’t need function bodies, or ’VLAs are Turing complete’ lemon.rip \| points: 223 \| comments: 158

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OmnesViae: Roman Routeplanner omnesviae.org \| points: 215 \| comments: 53

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The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites blog.jim-nielsen.com \| points: 206 \| comments: 94

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Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software codecrafters.io \| points: 204 \| comments: 115

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Things I Have Drawn is a site in which the things kids draw are real thingsihavedrawn.com \| points: 199 \| comments: 40

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Alpine Linux is reducing dependencies on Busybox gitlab.alpinelinux.org \| points: 194 \| comments: 69

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Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps arstechnica.com \| points: 177 \| comments: 149

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New open source project: Common Lisp 3D graphics system old.reddit.com \| points: 177 \| comments: 74

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Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells news.mit.edu \| points: 173 \| comments: 160

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Is DALL-E 2 ‘gluing things together’ without understanding their relationships? unite.ai \| points: 171 \| comments: 287

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Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs superblocks.com \| points: 169 \| comments: 87

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Black holes finally proven mathematically stable quantamagazine.org \| points: 166 \| comments: 104

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Tell HN: Amazon shopping is racing to the bottom of quality news.ycombinator.com \| points: 164 \| comments: 144

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My lab went from 4000 kg to 130 kg of waste a year nature.com \| points: 162 \| comments: 66

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