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Peacock. A New Programming Language

1•hashhooshy•3m ago•1 comments

A postcard arrived: 'If you're reading this I'm dead, and I really liked you'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2026/02/07/postcard-death-teacher-glickman/
1•bookofjoe•4m ago•1 comments

What to know about the software selloff

https://www.morningstar.com/markets/what-know-about-software-stock-selloff
2•RickJWagner•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Syntux – generative UI for websites, not agents

https://www.getsyntux.com/
3•Goose78•9m ago•0 comments

Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/ab75cef97954
2•birdculture•9m ago•0 comments

AI overlay that reads anything on your screen (invisible to screen capture)

https://lowlighter.app/
1•andylytic•10m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Seafloor, be up and running with OpenClaw in 20 seconds

https://seafloor.bot/
1•k0mplex•11m ago•0 comments

Tesla turbine-inspired structure generates electricity using compressed air

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-tesla-turbine-generates-electricity-compressed.html
2•PaulHoule•12m ago•0 comments

State Department deleting 17 years of tweets (2009-2025); preservation needed

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
2•sleazylice•12m ago•1 comments

Learning to code, or building side projects with AI help, this one's for you

https://codeslick.dev/learn
1•vitorlourenco•13m ago•0 comments

Effulgence RPG Engine [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFQOUe9S7dU
1•msuniverse2026•14m ago•0 comments

Five disciplines discovered the same math independently – none of them knew

https://freethemath.org
3•energyscholar•15m ago•1 comments

We Scanned an AI Assistant for Security Issues: 12,465 Vulnerabilities

https://codeslick.dev/blog/openclaw-security-audit
1•vitorlourenco•16m ago•0 comments

Amazon no longer defend cloud customers against video patent infringement claims

https://ipfray.com/amazon-no-longer-defends-cloud-customers-against-video-patent-infringement-cla...
2•ffworld•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Medinilla – an OCPP compliant .NET back end (partially done)

https://github.com/eliodecolli/Medinilla
2•rhcm•19m ago•0 comments

How Does AI Distribute the Pie? Large Language Models and the Ultimatum Game

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6157066
1•dkga•20m ago•1 comments

Resistance Infrastructure

https://www.profgalloway.com/resistance-infrastructure/
2•samizdis•24m ago•1 comments

Fire-juggling unicyclist caught performing on crossing

https://news.sky.com/story/fire-juggling-unicyclist-caught-performing-on-crossing-13504459
1•austinallegro•25m ago•0 comments

Restoring a lost 1981 Unix roguelike (protoHack) and preserving Hack 1.0.3

https://github.com/Critlist/protoHack
2•Critlist•26m ago•0 comments

GPS and Time Dilation – Special and General Relativity

https://philosophersview.com/gps-and-time-dilation/
1•mistyvales•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Witnessd – Prove human authorship via hardware-bound jitter seals

https://github.com/writerslogic/witnessd
1•davidcondrey•30m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built a clawdbot that texts like your crush

https://14.israelfirew.co
2•IsruAlpha•32m ago•2 comments

Scientists reverse Alzheimer's in mice and restore memory (2025)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251224032354.htm
1•walterbell•35m ago•0 comments

Compiling Prolog to Forth [pdf]

https://vfxforth.com/flag/jfar/vol4/no4/article4.pdf
1•todsacerdoti•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cymatica – an experimental, meditative audiovisual app

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cymatica-sounds-visualizer/id6748863721
1•_august•37m ago•0 comments

GitBlack: Tracing America's Foundation

https://gitblack.vercel.app/
9•martialg•37m ago•1 comments

Horizon-LM: A RAM-Centric Architecture for LLM Training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04816
1•chrsw•38m ago•0 comments

We just ordered shawarma and fries from Cursor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WALQOiugbWc
1•jeffreyjin•39m ago•1 comments

Correctio

https://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/C/correctio.htm
1•grantpitt•39m ago•0 comments

Trying to make an Automated Ecologist: A first pass through the Biotime dataset

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/trying-to-make-an-automated-ecologist
1•crescit_eundo•43m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

What if Hacker News had a optical illusion captcha?

2•vitarnixofntrnt•9mo ago
By asking visitors to correctly say which direction of say, four (up, down, left or right) a part of a captcha appears to be "moving", it filters out the bots while allowing humans with optical illusion fooled eyeballs to pass the test. Given 16 of those captcha requests in a row and given that there are 2^2 choices per captcha, there is a 2^16*2 - 1 possible ways to enter 16 captchas wrong, but only 1 way to enter them right, leading to a filtration failure of around 1 in 4 billion.

Also, multiple captchas can be done in a row for each failure, but once say, 16 captchas have been solved in a row, access is granted for say, a month, until the captcha has to be done again.

It just feels like Hacker News is full of bots and I have a solution to this.

Comments

duxup•9mo ago
>It just feels like Hacker News is full of bots

The irony of a new user who only posts about one topic saying this ...

vitarnixofntrnt•9mo ago
I have two other accounts that don't just have me discussing one topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vitalmixofntrnt and https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pantantrant

Edit: I asked a mod to merge those two accounts into this one.

I just like the word vita more now than vital and I'm big on the Vita branding that I want my startup to have its products and / or services to have, like say, in the future, Vita Shampoo, Vita Detergent, etc.

Also it feels like the whole internet is like that, "Dead Internet Theory" and all that, but instead of just whining, I have a solution.

dang•9mo ago
(We've merged all these accounts now, by the owner's request. I just mention this in case people click on those links and are puzzled.)
p_ing•9mo ago
How will visually impaired users leveraging screen readers complete this? How will individuals who have a form of motion sickness complete this?
vitarnixofntrnt•9mo ago
Simple, they can ask someone for help.
duxup•9mo ago
"You have to go ask someone for help to participate." seems like a cruel policy.
vitarnixofntrnt•9mo ago
Well, they have the advantage of people wanting to take care of them.
p_ing•9mo ago
I can't tell if your response is ignorant or uninformed. Please enlighten me.
JohnFen•9mo ago
It seems like this would bring all of the problems of other CAPTCHAs, but with the additional problems of excluding the visually impaired as well as those who can't see optical illusions (which is as high as 20% of the population, depending on the specific illusion).

And would it really be effective against bots? It isn't obvious to me why it would be any more effective than other schemes.