I have been struggling with a bot– &#x27;Mozilla&#x2F;5.0 (compatible; crawler)&#x27; coming from AWS Singapore – and sending an absurd number of requests to a domain of mine, averaging over 700 requests&#x2F;second for several months now.
Thankfully, CloudFlare is able to handle the traffic with a simple WAF rule and 444 response to reduce the outbound traffic.I&#x27;ve submitted several complaints to AWS to get this traffic to stop, their typical followup is:
We have engaged with our customer, and based on this engagement have determined that the reported activity does not require further action from AWS at this time.I&#x27;ve tried various 4XX responses to see if the bot will back off, I&#x27;ve tried 30X redirects (which it follows) to no avail.The traffic is hitting numbers that require me to re-negotiate my contract with CloudFlare and is otherwise a nuisance when reviewing analytics&#x2F;logs.I&#x27;ve considered redirecting the entirety of the traffic to aws abuse report page, but at this scall, it&#x27;s essentially a small DDoS network and sending it anywhere could be considered abuse in itself.Are there others that have similar experience?

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I had a mind-blown-moment when I learnt that Obsidian was built without any frontend JS framework. ( https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.obsidian.md&#x2F;t&#x2F;what-framework-did-the-developer-use-to-create-obsidian-desktop-application&#x2F;30724&#x2F;11 )The benefits, I can see.<pre><code> JS frameworks move really quickly, and when we&#x27;re working on a large, long-term project, it sucks when big breaking changes are introduced after only a couple of years. Sticking to slow-moving web standards (which are quite mature by now) increases the longevity of a project.

 And the stability also means that more time is spent on delivering features, rather than on fixing compatibility issues.

 There is also the benefit of independence. The project&#x27;s success is not tied to the framework&#x27;s success. And it also makes the project more secure, from supply chain attacks and such.

 Because there is no &quot;abstraction layer&quot; of a framework, you also have greater control over your project, and can make performance optimizations at a lower level.

 I feel not using a framework can even make us a better developer. Because we know more of what&#x27;s going on.
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There are benefits to using frameworks too, I&#x27;m not here to challenge that.But this alternative of using none... it seems rarely talked about. I want to learn more about building large (preferably web-based) software projects with few dependencies.Do you have any suggestions on how to learn more about it? Are there any open source projects you know which are built this way? It needs to be large, complex, app-like, and browser based. I&#x27;m more interested in the frontend side.Thank you!

How does one build large front end apps without using a framework like React?

Have you had the experience of using&#x2F;developing knowledge bases? Here is my scenario:My team is dealing with a lot of information: Wikis, Code repos, Monitoring dashboards, internal chat messages, emails, Task tickets, related systems, etc.There are many cases when we need to do ad-hoc searches for anything related to a concept. For instance, imagine if someone makes a change to a metric, there is a need to find all dashboards that might be using this metric to make sure they are still valid after the change.I don&#x27;t want to just fix this problem, but create the ability to find related information in ad-hoc cases.The ramp-up time is not important, as long as some positive value can be created with a small initial effort.Any existing products (Paid&#x2F;Free&#x2F;Open Source, etc) and any references to existing knowledge (designs, discussions) about this would be really appreciated.

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What are you working on?  Any new ideas that you&#x27;re thinking about?

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Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.

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Hi all, Is there any macOS app that lets you search visual files (images, screenshots, videos) locally using different VLMs like Qwen2-VL — ideally with a good search GUI and preview support?

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Did lead limit extinct hominid and Neanderthals?

In 10+ year old code I saw this comment that said HN usernames are case sensitive.
It doesn&#x27;t look like this is true anymore, thankfully. Can anyone confirm?

Old code comment: "NB: HN usernames are cAsE SensiTivE"

Raising more money, but can&#x27;t reply to vital support&#x2F;security inquiries?Like the final request of mine below, asking them to save their own resources, because someone was spinning up fake trials or something using my company&#x27;s domain:&quot;Please cancel these signups, they&#x27;re fraud.&quot;
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This is a pretty bad smell for this to still be unanswered and ongoing.Your &quot;Opt-Out&quot; link remains broken - how is anyone supposed to get in touch with you?!2-3 months go by:
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Sent from Front&quot;Wow...I&#x27;m not a customer.Months later, this is still unresolved?&quot;

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Following the discussion around Librephone [1], it seems that every project regarding open source smartphones OS are centered around the software only.Lineage and GrapheneOS have proven that reverse engineering is hard. So I&#x27;m wondering why can&#x27;t we have a project that starts from scratch and build the electronics and the OS? In the same spirit of what Apple did with iPhone+iOS. I&#x27;m sorry if I sound naive, I just don&#x27;t realize how hard it is to design a smartphone.[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45586339

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So Sam Altman made a pretty long post[1] about how they are trying to bring &quot;character&quot; back into ChatGPT and ends by saying erotica is also up for grabs. Personally, I think that was a pretty roundabout way of saying we are not making enough money as we should be able to and hence we are opening up the p*n floodgates.Pretty quick turnaround from about 10 weeks back [2]Some questions:- So AI safety is not a problem anymore?- Real name user checks will start on ChatGPT?- What do we think will be the major changes in society about this.1. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;sama&#x2F;status&#x2F;19781293445988271282. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;TolgaBilge_&#x2F;status&#x2F;1978151003170996332

Sexbots Are Coming to ChatGPT

This question has been asked several times before (see below), but looks like the most recent was about a year ago.Thoughts on why are also appreciated.<pre><code> 1 - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18085765
 2 - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18537512
 3 - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18271167
 4 - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32799789
 5 - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41906454</code></pre>

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Hey HN,I _really_ like reading blogs on agentic coding&#x2F;claude code topics that are exploring new ideas and discussing advanced topics on agentic coding.Jesse&#x27;s recent few articles on his blog blog.fsck.com is a good example of what I&#x27;m looking for. Reading articles like these are really inspiring, educational, enjoyable and exciting.Geoffrey Huntley&#x27;s blog at ghuntley.com is another one that I really enjoy reading when he posts a new article.Whether it&#x27;s a blog, an aggregator site or youtube channel, if you know of authors&#x2F;content creators that are really into this space I&#x27;d really appreciate your suggestions.

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Hello, I&#x27;ve been trying to use cursor with locally served Chat GPT or Qwen, but once I get offline it fails. It seems that there once had been a possibility to override API url, but now this is not the case.Is there any development environment or plugin that you&#x27;re using for local LLM?

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Looking for windows software that replaces the need for keyboard and mouse and lets me control Windows

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Electron gets hate due to filesize and memory bloat. C++ gets hate for memory leaks. Rust with Tauri relies on a webview which could change versions underneath the app when the OS gets an update.Which language and cross platform desktop GUI framework checks the boxes for being lightweight in terms of filesize and memory usage, has native controls, supports accessibility and uses retained mode rendering, and works the same ten years from now as the day it was installed?If someone were to build an installable desktop app with buttons, checkboxes, inputs etc. (so not a video game) which language and GUI framework should they to use to please the memory and filesize conscious?

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I&#x27;ve been trying to articulate why coding feels less pleasant now.The problem: You can&#x27;t win anymore.The old way: You&#x27;d think about the problem. Draw some diagrams. Understand what you&#x27;re actually trying to do. Then write the code. Understanding was mandatory. You solved it.The new way: The entire premise of AI coding tools is to automate the thinking, not just the typing. You&#x27;re supposed to describe a problem and get a solution without understanding the details. That&#x27;s the labor-saving promise.So I feel pressure to always, always, start by info dumping the problem description to AI and gamble for a one-shot. Voice transcription for 10 minutes, hit send, hope I get something first try, if not hope I can iterate until something works. And when even something does work = zero satisfaction because I don&#x27;t have the same depth of understanding of the solution. Its no longer my code, my idea. It&#x27;s just some code I found online. `import solution from chatgpt`If I think about the problem, I feel inefficient. &quot;Why did you waste 2 hours on that? AI would&#x27;ve done it in 10 minutes.&quot;If I use AI to help, the work doesn&#x27;t feel like mine. When I show it to anyone, the implicit response is: &quot;Yeah, I could&#x27;ve prompted for that too.&quot;The steering and judgment I apply to AI outputs is invisible. Nobody sees which suggestions I rejected, how I refined the prompts, or what decisions I made. So all credit flows to the AI by default.The result: Nothing feels satisfying anymore. Every problem I solve by hand feels too slow. Every problem I solve with AI feels like it doesn&#x27;t count. There&#x27;s this constant background feeling that whatever I just did, someone else would&#x27;ve done it better and faster.I was thinking of all the classic exploratory learning blog posts. Things that sounded fun. Writing a toy database to understand how they work, implementing a small Redis clone. Now that feels stupid. Like I&#x27;d be wasting time on details the AI is supposed to handle. It bothers me that my reaction to these blog posts has changed so much. 3 years ago I would be bookmarking a blog post to try it out for myself that weekend. Now those 200 lines of simple code feels only one sentence prompt away and thus waste of time.Am I alone in this?Does anyone else feel this pressure to skip understanding? Where thinking feels like you&#x27;re not using the tool correctly? In the old days, I understood every problem I worked on. Now I feel pressure to skip understanding and just ship. I hate it.

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There&#x27;s been a recent flurry of AI covers on Youtube and Instagram. For example: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;@fakemusicbr?si=G-RzKcm2iuXX56kISome of these songs are _really_ good. And pretty far ahead of where I thought audio AI was. Does anyone know what models and tools are used? I imagine once you have stems you can maybe style &#x2F; genre transfer and use a reference audio file perhaps? Like image and video models.

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I read somewhere that HN is not a good place to find a job in tech any longer.Do you use HN for job search? Any luck?

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I use ChatGPT-5 Thinking a lot for day-to-day work. I prefer the response quality over speed, so I always pick the longer-thinking model. It takes ~1–5 minutes (often 1–2) to respond, but those short waits are getting increasingly distracting.I find myself doing something else, and it eventually takes more than the thinking time. Such as right now, it takes me 5 minutes to write this post, and ChatGPT responded like 3 minutes ago.Does anyone else have the same problem? What do you do during these gaps? :D

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I am thinking of building a LLM based auto correct feature which corrects grammar and auto corrects as I type, pretty much like grammarly but more llm powered and hosted locally.What&#x27;s the next thing you&#x27;re vibe coding or planning to build?

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This week, my Vercel account was suddenly disabled and all of my deployments and data were deleted.I received no warning, no suspension notice, and no post-action explanation. When I emailed their support to ask what happened, they refused to give a reason and simply said they wouldn’t restore the account or data.I’ve been a Vercel user for over two years and never had any issue until now. It’s honestly shocking to lose everything overnight without a single email or warning.I’m now migrating all my projects to Cloudflare, but the experience has been incredibly frustrating. I just want to understand why this happened — and whether anyone else has faced a similar sudden ban.Has anyone here managed to get a clear answer from Vercel in a situation like this?