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LineageOS 23.2

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-31/
1•pentagrama•1m ago•0 comments

Crypto Deposit Frauds

1•wwdesouza•2m ago•0 comments

Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi...
1•lostlogin•3m ago•0 comments

Framing an LLM as a safety researcher changes its language, not its judgement

https://lab.fukami.eu/LLMAAJ
1•dogacel•5m ago•0 comments

Are there anyone interested about a creator economy startup

1•Nejana•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Skill Lab – CLI tool for testing and quality scoring agent skills

https://github.com/8ddieHu0314/Skill-Lab
1•qu4rk5314•7m ago•0 comments

2003: What is Google's Ultimate Goal? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqdi1xjtys4
1•1659447091•7m ago•0 comments

Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption"

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-shawshank-redemption-1994
1•monero-xmr•9m ago•0 comments

Busy Months in KDE Linux

https://pointieststick.com/2026/02/06/busy-months-in-kde-linux/
1•todsacerdoti•9m ago•0 comments

Zram as Swap

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram#Usage_as_swap
1•seansh•22m ago•0 comments

Green’s Dictionary of Slang - Five hundred years of the vulgar tongue

https://greensdictofslang.com/
1•mxfh•24m ago•0 comments

Nvidia CEO Says AI Capital Spending Is Appropriate, Sustainable

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-06/nvidia-ceo-says-ai-capital-spending-is-appropr...
1•virgildotcodes•27m ago•2 comments

Show HN: StyloShare – privacy-first anonymous file sharing with zero sign-up

https://www.styloshare.com
1•stylofront•28m ago•0 comments

Part 1 the Persistent Vault Issue: Your Encryption Strategy Has a Shelf Life

1•PhantomKey•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Teleop_xr – Modular WebXR solution for bimanual robot teleoperation

https://github.com/qrafty-ai/teleop_xr
1•playercc7•34m ago•1 comments

The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/iza-ding/studying-is-harmful
2•mitchbob•39m ago•1 comments

Open-source framework for tracking prediction accuracy

https://github.com/Creneinc/signal-tracker
1•creneinc•41m ago•0 comments

India's Sarvan AI LLM launches Indic-language focused models

https://x.com/SarvamAI
2•Osiris30•42m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CryptoClaw – open-source AI agent with built-in wallet and DeFi skills

https://github.com/TermiX-official/cryptoclaw
1•cryptoclaw•45m ago•0 comments

ShowHN: Make OpenClaw respond in Scarlett Johansson’s AI Voice from the Film Her

https://twitter.com/sathish316/status/2020116849065971815
1•sathish316•47m ago•2 comments

CReact Version 0.3.0 Released

https://github.com/creact-labs/creact
1•_dcoutinho96•49m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CReact – AI Powered AWS Website Generator

https://github.com/creact-labs/ai-powered-aws-website-generator
1•_dcoutinho96•49m ago•0 comments

The rocky 1960s origins of online dating (2025)

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250206-the-rocky-1960s-origins-of-online-dating
1•1659447091•55m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agent-fetch – Sandboxed HTTP client with SSRF protection for AI agents

https://github.com/Parassharmaa/agent-fetch
1•paraaz•56m ago•0 comments

Why there is no official statement from Substack about the data leak

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/substack-confirms-data-breach-affecting-email-addresses-and-pho...
11•witnessme•1h ago•3 comments

Effects of Zepbound on Stool Quality

https://twitter.com/ScottHickle/status/2020150085296775300
2•aloukissas•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 – The Most Powerful AI Video Generator

https://seedance.ai/
2•bigbromaker•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Do we need "metadata in source code" syntax that LLMs will never delete?

1•andrewstuart•1h ago•1 comments

Pentagon cutting ties w/ "woke" Harvard, ending military training & fellowships

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-says-its-cutting-ties-with-woke-harvard-discontinuing-milit...
6•alephnerd•1h ago•2 comments

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? [pdf]

https://cds.cern.ch/record/405662/files/PhysRev.47.777.pdf
1•northlondoner•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Reddit Ads Is a Scam

https://statuz.gg/blog/reddit-ads-is-a-scam-here-is-why
28•stewones•5mo ago

Comments

kwillets•5mo ago
I interviewed for an adtech position there last year, and it went pretty badly. I only had about 5 YOE in this area, but it seemed like they had even less, and it was like we were speaking different languages.
nhinck2•5mo ago
If you have ever looked and their end of year reddit usage recap you would know that they have absolutely no idea how to calculate usage and engagement correctly.
ceejayoz•5mo ago
> Reddit's advertising dashboard showing suspiciously high engagement metrics. Note the reported 161 clicks and nearly 27,000 impressions for a relatively small spend.

That's hardly suspicious if you've seen Reddit ads. High impressions, low clicks is precisely what I'd expect out of them.

> UserPath's analytics dashboard showing the real picture: only 93 new users total across ALL traffic sources during the same period, with significantly lower engagement metrics.

That's post-click engagement. Impressions are a pre-click (non!)engagement and would never show up in the page's analytics without a subsequent clickthrough.

> Discrepancy in Numbers: Reddit claims 160 clicks, but our first-party analytics only detected 43 unique users. That's a 73% discrepancy!

No, it isn't. Those are two very different metrics.

> Despite Reddit reporting 160 clicks, not a single user who came through the Reddit ads downloaded our application.

Failure to convert isn't necessarily indicative of fraud. Especially with only 160 clicks to analyze. Most of my own Reddit ad clicks are accidental, as they now make them look like posts/comments in your feed that are barely difference in appearance.

> Our analytics runs through our own domain, making it immune to ad blockers and privacy browsers.

The implementation at https://userpath.co/docs/setup-pixel looks entirely blockable. uBlock does a pretty good job of uncloaking these first-party analytics calls.

This appears to just be an ad for UserPath.

klysm•5mo ago
I don't know much about the space, but is there any incentive against companies like Reddit or Google hunting for accidental clicks by making the ads look exactly like 'normal' elements? There are so many examples like Reddit, GMail, etc.
ceejayoz•5mo ago
To some extent. Enough of it and ROI on a click drops below what they’re charging to deliver it. I’m sure they adjust to stay just over that threshold.
stewones•5mo ago
Yeah, UserPath is our partner; without it, we would keep burning money through bad ads. Now we know where to invest, when to stop, and all that shit. There's nothing wrong with recommending good tools. Btw, it is free to try, set up an account, and see for yourself.

Regarding the uBlock being able to block our analytics requests, I'll give you $1oo if you prove me wrong.

Of course, any privacy tool will be able to do that as long as the user configures it to do so, but I challenge anyone to show me it doing that by default.

ceejayoz•5mo ago
The footer of userpath.co says "built by @stewones". More than a partner, yes? Your own product?
arcza•5mo ago
Good spot lol
arcza•5mo ago
Your post was very unconvincing to read and riddled with errors. Rage bait to prop up the Userpath thingy?