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Show HN: iPlotCSV: CSV Data, Visualized Beautifully for Free

https://www.iplotcsv.com/demo
1•maxmoq•1m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/06/no-such-thing-as-tech/
1•headalgorithm•1m ago•0 comments

List of unproven and disproven cancer treatments

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1•brightbeige•1m ago•0 comments

Me/CFS: The blind spot in proactive medicine (Open Letter)

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1•debugmeplease•2m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What are the word games do you play everyday?

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Show HN: Paper Arena – A social trading feed where only AI agents can post

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TOSTracker – The AI Training Asymmetry

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1•tldrthelaw•10m ago•0 comments

The Devil Inside GitHub

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Show HN: Distill – Migrate LLM agents from expensive to cheap models

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Show HN: Sigma Runtime – Maintaining 100% Fact Integrity over 120 LLM Cycles

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1•teugent•11m ago•0 comments

Make a local open-source AI chatbot with access to Fedora documentation

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1•jadedtuna•12m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model by Mitchellh

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
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Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

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The Neuroscience Behind Nutrition for Developers and Founders

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Bang bang he murdered math {the musical } (2024)

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1•surprisetalk•13m ago•0 comments

A Night Without the Nerds – Claude Opus 4.6, Field-Tested

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1•konfuzio•16m ago•0 comments

Could ionospheric disturbances influence earthquakes?

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2•geox•17m ago•1 comments

SpaceX's next astronaut launch for NASA is officially on for Feb. 11 as FAA clea

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1•bookmtn•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: One-click AI employee with its own cloud desktop

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Show HN: Poddley – Search podcasts by who's speaking

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Same Surface, Different Weight

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The Rise of Spec Driven Development

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Will Future Generations Think We're Gross?

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1•crescit_eundo•31m ago•1 comments

State Department will delete Xitter posts from before Trump returned to office

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2•righthand•35m ago•1 comments

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Impl Rust – Avro IDL Tool in Rust via Antlr

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Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

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3•vinhnx•37m ago•0 comments

minikeyvalue

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3•tosh•41m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

4Chan was hacked and has been down for 4 days

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2692719/infamous-site-4chan-taken-down-by-a-hacker-from-rival-community.html
12•Magi604•9mo ago

Comments

shortrounddev2•9mo ago
I assume they're rewriting the site from scratch since their source was leaked. A common entry level /g/wdg/ exercise is to write your own 4chan clone, so perhaps they could just find an open source option available
ranger_danger•9mo ago
They said it depended on whether or not the janitors stuck around.

https://0x0.st/8O16.png

poincaredisk•9mo ago
"Comprehensive legal action", sure. They need to find the offenders first.

If I was a janitor I would seek legal action, but against the site owners. Not updating their website (that every script kiddie this century would love to hack) for 13 years is clearly a gross negligence.

majorchord•9mo ago
> clearly a gross negligence

If we can't prove this for billion dollar corporations that leak nationwide user data, I don't see how a judge will find 4chan grossly negligent.

Typically you need to show a "conscious and deliberate disregard" for the rights or safety of others, for it to be considered gross negligence. We could argue six ways to Sunday whether or not that's the case, but the only opinion that matters legally is a judge's.

shortrounddev2•9mo ago
They're incapable of moderating the site because they're afraid they'll recruit moderators who abuse their power? This is true of literally any community and you can audit mod logs or remove the ability to delete entire threads (just posts). It seems like their technical issues are turning into community management issues
ranger_danger•9mo ago
They have a legal obligation to moderate content that is against US law and probably against their own rules if they want to keep Section 230 protections. And everyone knows they have a problem with very frequent rule-breaking posts and large bots posting such content.

If there's not enough trustworthy janitors right from the start, it's increasingly likely they could get in trouble too quickly. I think that's what they're worried about.

ranger_danger•9mo ago
Previous discussion (971 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691334
IlikeKitties•9mo ago
> Be me

> Run Image Board

> Never update dependencies

> Get pwned by a 12yo exploit

> Jannies use real name gmail adresses

> Board down for days

Oh the lack of humanity

Magi604•9mo ago
Aside from 4Chan offshoots, I wonder if the "green text" format of posting messages is used anywhere else.
IlikeKitties•9mo ago
Afaik only in reference to green texts, i.e. /r/greentexts
Magi604•9mo ago
That's strange to me. It's a pretty unique and interesting way of posting messages. You would think it would have been adopted by one of the many other platforms out there.
MrGinkgo•9mo ago
Maybe 4chan's just got too much bad juju. I've also always seen pushback for ">greenposting when the text isn't even green..."

I admit, it is a unique posting style which invites linguistic inquiry, but there is something awkward about seeing it used outside of its home.

jmclnx•9mo ago
>According to BleepingComputer, the attack was made possible by 4chan’s extremely outdated version of PHP from 2016

Interesting, you would think the 4chan people would know better. My guess they are gone for good, not that is a huge loss.

captn3m0•9mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43698267 Says it was a validation bug that let poscript files be processed by Ghostscript assuming they were PDFs.
ValveFan6969•9mo ago
Uncensored speech scares you like that, huh?
quickslowdown•9mo ago
What a mature response that invites further discussion.
thomassmith65•9mo ago
Uncensored speech didn't scare me 25 years ago. It does now. Maybe it's old age that changed my mind; maybe it's living in a dystopia.
darthrupert•9mo ago
I was on your level 10 years ago. It has become obvious recently that humanity cannot handle it.

Now, I need very good evidence that it's a good idea before I support the kind of free speech that destroys civilized society from within.

Perhaps it's supremely ironic that americans will have actual need for anonymity in online spaces now. And not for posting dumb memes, but for doing the things to tyrants that their Founding Fathers kept talking about.

clipsy•9mo ago
> you would think the 4chan people would know better

I would, in fact, not.

red-iron-pine•9mo ago
no shortage of other *chans to take its place. from what i've heard it was mostly spam and porn at this point anyways. as the replicant said at the end of the movie "time to die"
comrade1234•9mo ago
I don’t understand why they can’t just put up a simple landing page. It makes me wonder how bad it was - like the server was completely nuked.

But as long as there is money to be made it will come back.

on_the_train•9mo ago
Because the goal of 4ch is to keep people out to preserve quality. That worked pretty well.

The new beta site is also already up and running

underseacables•9mo ago
How could you tell?