On: NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoor

[Jedd]

Is the massive number of spam messages on this thread an attempt to suppress the article / discussion around it?

I've not seen this many from multiple but evidently related green accounts before. Given the implications about nation state actors in play, it's tempting to jump to conclusions here.

[defrost → Jedd]

It's multiple threads, not just this one, and it's been on and off the past few days.

You can add these kind of lines:

  news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing.comtr:has(a.hnuser:has-text('banana_dick'))
  news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing.comtr:has(a.hnuser:has-text('sirspamalot'))

to any uBlock or AdBlockPlus type extensions with manual compatible custom filters that you might have added to your browser.

> It's quite amazing that these new "green" accounts can post as many messages as they want while I'm being restricted

That's not what is happening .. look at the account names and the number of comments made by each.

[yellowapple → defrost]

Still leaves me curious about the "why". Someone mad at HN about something? Just having a laugh?

[kibwen → Jedd]

No, this has been happening for a few days now. Browse threads from the past week with showdead enabled and you'll see them.

[nebulous1 → kibwen]

> showdead enabled

Thanks, I didn't know this was something we could turn off. Although it does feel like they could just default to collapsed too.