"Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?" "I noticed this, like, 3 days ago) started automatically making requests to someone's personal blog on their CAPTCHA page" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740
It's been restricted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300329 Too many people create an account to post a 'Show HN', then never come back, often don't even reply to comments/feedback. LLM/AI use has made it worse. The community struggles with 20 Show HN submissions per hour.
> isn't able to submit this site
I haven't seen this error message before. It looks like "this site" was submitted before?
Happy Horse is a model that has been announced, but not released to the general public except for testing through Arena, which makes it a feast for copycats looking to scam people. https://xcancel.com/HappyHorseATH
https://www.fiverr.com/.well-known/security.txt only has "Contact: security@fiverr.com" and in their help pages they say "Fiverr operates a Bug Bounty program in collaboration with BugCrowd. If you discover a vulnerability, please reach out to security@fiverr.com to receive information about how to participate in our program."
We're on the receiving end of contact form spam (I think that's the correct term) from similar tools. They already exist and we hate every one of them.
I think that's the problem with cold outreach in general. It's just a spam fest. It's so hard to get through even when you're trying to make something valuable. How do you ever find actully good products? Is it ever cold outreach?
Ig personal connections are becoming more and more of a moat
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