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OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
578•klaussilveira•11h ago•168 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
891•xnx•16h ago•540 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
19•helloplanets•4d ago•12 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
91•matheusalmeida•1d ago•21 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
23•videotopia•4d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
197•isitcontent•11h ago•24 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
199•dmpetrov•11h ago•91 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
307•vecti•13h ago•136 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
352•aktau•17h ago•176 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
353•ostacke•17h ago•91 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
454•todsacerdoti•19h ago•228 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
80•quibono•4d ago•18 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
20•romes•4d ago•2 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
254•eljojo•14h ago•154 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
52•kmm•4d ago•3 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
388•lstoll•17h ago•263 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
5•bikenaga•3d ago•1 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
231•i5heu•14h ago•176 comments

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
12•neogoose•3h ago•7 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
118•SerCe•7h ago•96 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
68•phreda4•10h ago•12 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
136•vmatsiiako•16h ago•59 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
24•gmays•6h ago•6 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
43•gfortaine•8h ago•13 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
269•surprisetalk•3d ago•37 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
169•limoce•3d ago•88 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1040•cdrnsf•20h ago•431 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
60•rescrv•19h ago•22 comments

Show HN: ARM64 Android Dev Kit

https://github.com/denuoweb/ARM64-ADK
14•denuoweb•1d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
88•antves•1d ago•63 comments
Open in hackernews

A short history of web bots and bot detection techniques

https://sinja.io/blog/bot-or-not
73•OlegWock•7mo ago

Comments

ape4•7mo ago
I liked the depiction of different TCP SYN packets ;)
osigurdson•7mo ago
I needed a new github account the other day. The "are you human tests" were so hard that I almost gave up. I think a new way to do this will be needed soon.
laurent_du•7mo ago
Does anyone know of a good reference on the topic of fingerprinting?
keysdev•7mo ago
https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/nothing-private

Recently used DDG browser it just cant get some sites to clear! Try the flame button. But still logged in after few browser data clearing.

Are company resorting to this kinda tactic to keep user remembered. Its a major booking for lodging site!!!

Qubes OS seems more and more attractive.

ghxst•7mo ago
https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/ https://github.com/abrahamjuliot/creepjs

Usually my go to. The readme, source code and GitHub issues are great source of information, and the website itself is useful to test against.

edit:

For anything network fingerprinting related, especially censorship related I usually browse https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues

yellow_lead•7mo ago
> Orchestraion frameworks

Small typo here

ahmedhawas123•7mo ago
I'm curious about how this world will evolve in the era of AI agents/MCP. It is not entirely unlikely that AI agents will have access to limited wallets etc to facilitate a broader set of use cases. In that case, a one shot solution to bot vs. human may not make sense, and a more nuanced human/bot-we-like/bot-we-don't-like may be needed by corporations. This would esp be the case for unofficial MCP servers that would use technologies like headless browsing etc to support an API.
m3047•7mo ago
I'm not sure I understand the mental model you're basing your inferences on, but my model leads to a far different outcome:

If you've got a good enough bot and it's pre-qualified to spend money, then it can use the special "register as a bot" API and provide personal information and whatever else I want to understand that there is a "real human" behind the curtain. A credit card alone is not enough, they can be (trivially) stolen. The way I see it using agentic bots will ultimately require you to provide more personal details than an actual human would.

nerdsniper•7mo ago
If I'm running bots that reliably evade bot detection, what would motivate me to provide all that information when I could just ... not?
alexpotato•7mo ago
"robots spending money" has already been going since the 1980s in algorithmic trading.
irico•7mo ago
How do systems like OpenAI Operator bypass bot protection for the entire web?
notjoemama•7mo ago
Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see a mention of the permanent token cell network providers inject into client requests. Knowing what these are and mocking them is another thing a bot might do to impersonate a real device.
rShergold•7mo ago
Back in the early 2000s lots of websites had an unauthenticated "guestbook" feature where visitors could leave a message. As soon as Google and page rank became a thing bots would drive by and leave links to the website they were promoting. The idea was to increase the number of backlinks and thus improve your Google rank.

The fix to this was shockingly simple. Add an input box with a standard name like "title" and then hide it with CSS. The bots would always provide a value for every input. If you saw a value for your hidden input you returned 200 but never added the post to your website.

alexpotato•7mo ago
This is bringing me back to running my own site back in the day.
semolino•7mo ago
I implemented this very technique last year after getting some crypto spam on the guestbook of my personal website. It works like a charm.
bobbiechen•7mo ago
Great high-level overview. One of the challenges about learning about bot detection is that it's adversarial, and revealing info about your techniques can help the attackers evade you.

I do work on a bot detection product, and I've seen some group chats where crackers are sharing notes about how they're evading detection tools. The more unnerving part is that the public groups are less serious, and there are certainly better private groups aiming at anything with a good financial reward.