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The Windows 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering (1996) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12330899 - Aug 2016 (72 comments)



Stuxnet is also another mindblowing case. Wired write-up on it is a recommended reading: https://web.archive.org/web/20141028182107/http://www.wired....

If they're under an organised defamation campaign, they're not helping themselves by DDoSing someone else's blog and editing archived pages.


Is that, itself, true or disinformation?


They did edit archived pages. They temporarily did a find/replace on their archive to replace "Nora Puchreiner" (an alias the site operator uses) with "Jani Patokallio" (the name of the blogger who wrote about archive.today's owner). https://megalodon.jp/2026-0219-1634-10/https://archive.ph:44...

They also tampered with their archive for a few of the social media sites (Twitter, Instagram, Blogger) by changing the name of the signed in account to Jani Patokallio. https://megalodon.jp/2026-0220-0320-05/https://archive.is:44...

I think Wikipedia made the right decision, you can't trust an archival service for citations if every time the sysop gets in a row they tamper with their database.


This is so ‘early internet beef’ quaint. What next? Are they going to G-line each other?


It it utterly stupid when you consider that the host needed to replace their username with something to conceal their user accounts.



The Reddit CEO's life isn't in danger from people knowing who he is, to be fair.

I've not seen any evidence of them editing archived pages BUT the DDOSing of gyrovague.com is true and still actively taking place. The author of that blog is Finnish leading archive.today to ban all Finnish IPs by giving them endless captcha loops. After solving the first captcha, the page reloads and a javascript snippet appears in the source that attempts to spam gyrovague.com with repeated fetches.


> I've not seen any evidence of them editing archived pages

There is evidence of this in the article you're commenting on.


How do you know that? Did you see it (do you have a Finnish IP?)?


Yes I have Finnish IP and just before I wrote that post I tested it to make sure it was still happening.

I assume it must be a blanket ban on Finnish IPs as there has been comments about it on Reddit and none of my friends can get it to work either. 5 different ISPs were tried. So at the very least it seems to affect majority of Finnish residential connections.


> just before I wrote that post I tested it to make sure it was still happening

That's awesome. I wish everyone made sure of their facts. Thanks.


This is quite an interesting question. For a single datapoint, I happen to have access to a VPN that's supposedly in Finland, and connecting through that didn't make any captcha loop appear on archive.today. The page worked fine.

Now it's obviously possible that my VPN was whitelisted somehow, or that the GeoIP of it is lying. This is just a singular datapoint.


As another datapoint with Finnish IP from Mullvad VPN: CAPTCHA loop and indeed after solving first CAPTCHA this can be found in page source:

setInterval(function(){fetch("https://gyrovague.com/tag/"+Math.random().toString(36).subst...",{ referrerPolicy:"no-referrer",mode:"no-cors" });},1400);


It’s also pretty common for VPNs to have exit nodes physically located in different counties to where they report those IPs (to GeoIP databases) as having originated from.


VPNs usually don't tell you much about residential experiences.


It was true and visible when reported, yeah.


I've also noticed archive.today injecting suspicious looking ads into archived pages that originally did not have ads.



it gives them a voice.


And that voice is practically shouting, "I AM UNTRUSTWORTHY".


that is not the worst scream (especially after FBI and Russian trail). better to shout anything than to die in silence


What kinda logic is that? If you don't want to die in silence, then shout something sensical. But if you're gonna shout garbage, just die in silence.


People say they want the old weird web back. Well there’s this.


The property of the medium: no one would repost or discuss "something sensical".


Or some shrewd sort of tactician.


I use Claude Code daily to work on a large Python codebase and I'm yet to see the it hallucinating a variable or method (I always ask it to write and run unit tests, so that may be helping). Anyway, I don't think that's a problem at all, most problems I face with AI-generated code are not solved by a borrow-checker or a compiler: bad architecture, lack of forward-thinking, hallucinations in the contract of external API calls, etc.


There's also https://shademap.app/ for that, also useful (with 3D buildings!). Used it before buying my condo and it was spot-on.


Any way to run that on a Mac (besides running it in the browser)?

  $ ./snake.com
  ./snake.com: line 20: /tmp/a: cannot execute binary file


Unless we figure out how to make 1 billion+ tokens multimodal context windows (in a commercially viable way) and connect them to Google Docs/Slack/Notion/Zoom meetings/etc, I don't think it will simplify that much. Most of the work is adjusting your mental model to the fact that the agent is a stateless machine that starts from scratch every single time and has little-to-no knowledge besides what's in the code, so you have to be very specific about the context of the task in some ways.

It's different from assigning a task to a co-worker who already knows the business rules and cross-implications of the code in the real world. The agent can't see the broader picture of the stuff it's making, it can go from ignoring obvious (to a human that was present in the last planning meeting) edge cases to coding defensively against hundreds of edge cases that will never occur, if you don't add that to your prompt/context material.


What profit? All labs are taking massive losses and there's no clear path to profit for most of them yet.


The wealthiest people in tech aren't spending 10s of billions on this without the expectation of future profits. There's risk, but they absolutely expect the bets to be +EV overall.


Expected profit.


You don't need a LLM for that, a simple Markov Chain can solve that with a much smaller footprint.


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