This is staged and you can tell the box is opened by the way they poorly move the camera away from where it is in view each time. Pay attention to the moment before the scissors are grabbed and the box flaps open.
The camera moves away. It is deliberate misdirection, multiple times.
The shock is disingenuous and incredulous.
I am disappointed that grifting and manufactured rage bait like this is in the fp on hn. Rarely do I log in but can you not turn this place into a dump with low quality sensationalist content?
This is fraud being sold as malfeasance. No thanks
I'm working on a hidden puzzle for the 40th anniversary phrack edition which is scheduled for release this summer. If you're a reader of it be on the lookout for curiosities and scrutinize everything. There is a prize at the end and it's going to be fun. :)
moby dick was written in my city (new bedford, ma - former whaling capitol of the world and #1 fishing port in the usa today). the author stayed here downtown after moving from nantucket in order to write and was not famous until after he died, sadly. he was a fisherman in real life and the book is excellent if you're familiar with the history of whaling.
I tried to get gcp to go with my golang stuff. I used PayPal with a debit card and an Amex attached to it. I was instantly banned as well.
So I said fuck it and got the aws equivalent. It's really unfortunate and doesnt inspire confidence in their products/support. No remediation and immediate algorithmic bans is a system that's broken. Its not up to me to try again. Thats on Google.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28647191 and don't post like this again. If you have evidence (by which I mean any shred of anything objective), please email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look into it.
Both broke the site guidelines. We can't respond to every case of that—there are just too many. Insinuation about the astroturf/shill/bot/spy thing is the bigger problem.
Asking the question about HN manipulation, when several other people have been asking, "How is this on HN", is unreasonable?
Is HN somehow immune from the manipulation that much larger, much better funded sites have experienced (where ample evidence exists)?
This was not some criticism of HN, this was a valid question which people should ponder on. Presumably most of us HN readers do not expect the content to be targeted manipulation or disinformation. But we cannot be blind to the possibility... else what is the point of even being here?
When I am hitting HN (tonight at least) about every 15 minutes out of boredom, and I see a story pop up on the front page with rapidly increasing votes - especially a story that is rather controversial and not typically what HN people get uniformly excited about - I wonder if something unusual is going on.
Perhaps it really is a lot of pro-Trump HN readers using their Friday afternoons to upvote this story, but that also seems unlikely.
Ok, I take your point that you were asking in good faith. The line between question and insinuation can be blurry. The fact is, though, that astroturfer/shill/bot/foreign-agent/paid-troll/infiltrating-spies is the explanation internet users reflexively invoke at the slightest provocation, nearly always with zero evidence. The overwhelming majority of the time, it's nothing but a sinister, sensational fantasy. This poisons discussion and community. Therefore we have a rule asking people not to post such things, but rather to email us at hn@ycombinator.com if they're worried about manipulation. That way we can base the response on something objective (by looking at the data) and the threads won't go haywire down the poisonous path.
I don't think you need to invoke "pro-Trump readers" to explain why a story like this might get upvoted. Not everyone is a passionate partisan.
they had 2fa before most orgs and even launched a beta for the public called "AOL PASSCODE". aim had 2fa i remember host guide something with the password "pepper" had it in 2002.
paste did not hack anything he is just an archivist of aol lore. my pr0gz are on there i found them while searching for {s gotmail to add to my phone alert notifications. we follow each other on twitter and he's just a wholesome dude with no sketchy background other than writing vb pr0gz with the rest of us in aol://2719-2-2-vb
I was referencing the content of the post and its discussion of Jay Satiro’s felony convictions. The domain looks to be a great archive of old AOL things.
you're talking about cameron "cam0" lacroix who got that and a default ssh key. he was raided on frederick street for that at age 14, but being a minor and a legend at opssec he was not charged or arrested - just raided for good measure by bill zaleski (sp) at 703.265.4040 :)
The camera moves away. It is deliberate misdirection, multiple times.
The shock is disingenuous and incredulous.
I am disappointed that grifting and manufactured rage bait like this is in the fp on hn. Rarely do I log in but can you not turn this place into a dump with low quality sensationalist content?
This is fraud being sold as malfeasance. No thanks
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