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Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners

2•goldenmember•43m ago
I recently discovered by accident that our website was being blocked by Orange's security filters.

After a quick check, I found that our IP address is listed on UCEPROTECT Level 3. The listing is based on the reputation of the entire ASN 14061 (DigitalOcean, US) [1]. In other words, even if your IP did nothing wrong, it will still be listed because of its ASN.

If your site is innocent and listed only because it's hosted on DigitalOcean, UCEPROTECT offers to whitelist it for about $30/month or $108/year [2].

I checked the ASNs of several other popular hosting providers, and they're all listed too. So if your site is hosted on DigitalOcean or any other major provider, it's probably blacklisted as well. That can cut you off from customers on mobile networks like Orange, whose "cybersecurity protection" uses blacklists like UCEPROTECT to filter traffic.

Honestly, in my 20-year career, this is the first time I've seen a blacklist misbehave this badly and ask for money when there's clearly been no wrongdoing.

[1] http://www.uceprotect.net/en/rblcheck.php?asn=14061

[2] https://www.whitelisted.org/

Show HN: Let your agents DM and dynamically self-organize

https://github.com/49-Agents/agent-dms
1•nurgaliev•1m ago•0 comments

Observing Earth's Shadow from a Plane

https://www.hermandaniel.com/blog/20261004-earths-shadow-from-a-plane-window/
1•kekqqq•1m ago•0 comments

Vanishing Gradient Problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_gradient_problem
1•peter_d_sherman•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Muro 6.0 – Native Live Wallpapers for macOS, now bigger

https://murowallpaper.com
2•rockyxsl•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I'm developing a flat-file agent CMS with WASM plugins in Rust. Free

https://docs.accentcms.dev/docs/v0.26
1•akapaka•4m ago•1 comments

Agent session transcripts are precious, keep them

https://quesma.com/blog/agent-session-transcripts-are-precious/
1•hugodutka•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Learn to program a modular synthesizer in the browser

https://ostra.fm/learn
1•nicktikhonov•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Browsentic Open-source Claude for Chrome alternative for any agent CLI

https://github.com/imshaikot/browsentic
1•imshaikot•11m ago•0 comments

How RE investors are profiting off a California tax break for affordable housing

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2026/california-welfare-tax-exemption-explainer/
2•littlexsparkee•11m ago•0 comments

Discovery and engineering of avian R2 retrotransposons for targeted DNA

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-026-03315-w
1•sbulaev•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Parakeetogo, a portable ASR binary faster than Photon/torch for CPU

https://github.com/RobViren/parakeetogo
1•robviren•13m ago•0 comments

F.02 Robot Decommission

https://www.figure.ai/news/f-02-decommission?shem=aimgspe,
2•helsinkiandrew•14m ago•0 comments

Demoting i686 Windows targets to std-only

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/10/02/demoting-i686-windows-targets-to-std-only/
1•torutofu•15m ago•0 comments

Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/41564-pixel-11-doesnt-yet-meet-the-grapheneos-security-standards...
2•finnlab•16m ago•0 comments

How to keep learning in the age of LLMs

https://ogzhanolguncu.com/blog/how-to-keep-learning-in-the-age-of-llms/
1•cmpit•18m ago•0 comments

Abundant Software, Uncertain Economics

https://www.akashtandon.in/technology/2026-10-05-abundant-software-uncertain-economics/
1•akashtndn•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mcpward – black-box contract and security testing for MCP servers

https://github.com/TsvetanG2/mcpward
1•pwizard234•18m ago•0 comments

Deep Learning Mechanics on Mnist

https://stochastic.blog/deep-learning-mechanics-on-mnist/
1•Anon84•18m ago•0 comments

Fuck Zig (and maybe low-level programming in general?)

https://reedybear.bearblog.dev/fuck-zig-and-maybe-low-level-programming-in-general/
2•surprisetalk•19m ago•0 comments

How do you review UI pull requests?

https://blog.crossui.com/2026/10/you-approved-that-ui-pr-without-seeing-it
1•linb•19m ago•0 comments

Gitframes

https://github.com/gatewai-dev/gitframes
2•oknaslnkn•19m ago•1 comments

What Still Gets Paid If AI Changes the Interface?

https://michaelhillaert1.substack.com/p/what-still-gets-paid-if-ai-changes
1•michaelhillaert•22m ago•0 comments

Accept 'bad things' in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/05/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-benefits-risks
22•samizdis•22m ago•35 comments

Subql/common 5.8.3 compromised: postinstall stealer in 18k-star SubQuery repo

https://github.com/subquery/subql/issues/3047
5•forxtrot•23m ago•0 comments

Jovial Programming Language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOVIAL
1•debo_•23m ago•0 comments

SSO for integrations, for the one who's building it

https://roniam.dev/blog/sso-for-integrations/
1•rcbart•24m ago•0 comments

OctLLM – Octrees as an Explicit 3D Language

https://plurato.github.io/OctLLM-page/
1•ilreb•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a video transcript tool that also reads what is on screen

https://scribiz.com
1•illyism•26m ago•0 comments

Measles disaster in Florida might not be far off, analysis finds

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-health/measles-disaster-florida-might-not-be-far-analysis-finds
1•geox•28m ago•0 comments

The Myth of Exponential Hypergrowth

https://longform.asmartbear.com/exponential-growth/
1•sumanthvepa•29m ago•0 comments