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A comment on Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work. Parent comment

Re:Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative ... by hombre_fatal on Friday May 30, 2025 @03:20PM (#44139154)
For which part?

Every time a new submission is created on HN, you have a curl script that posts a comment on it shilling your product. (According to the /newest tab there seems to be one submission every few minutes.)

What's harder for you to automate: the comment always posts successfully after 500ms, or you get a Cloudflare Turnstile captcha every time?

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Re:Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative ... by yodon on Friday May 30, 2025 @03:43PM (#44139347)
PoW is for a completely different threat model than CAPTCHA. If you're trying to decide which is better, you're doing it wrong.
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Re:Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative ... by Tadpole9181 on Saturday May 31, 2025 @09:08AM (#44144050)
The title of the submission, the project README, and the project homepage repeats:

> CAPTCHA alternative

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