Re:An Update on Wayback Machine Access
by sam345 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @08:55PM
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Just out of curiosity, how do we know that what is in the Wikipedia comments is accurate? I have no skin in the game. I was just wondering. Anybody can post anything on Wikipedia comments. I find it odd that Ars Technica would use that as a source. Maybe it's fine for gossip and speculation but it shouldn't be in Ars Technica then.
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Re:An Update on Wayback Machine Access
by fc417fc802 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @09:52PM
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Because a lot of us watched the drama unfold in real time.
Re:An Update on Wayback Machine Access
by avadodin on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @05:10AM
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We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Re:An Update on Wayback Machine Access
by Mogzol on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @01:14AM
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There is a megalodon.jp archive of an archive.today page that shows the edits: https://megalodon.jp/2026-0219-1654-07/https://archive.ph:44...
There's also a bunch of previous hackernews discussions about it:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474255
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805
And you obviously have no reason to believe me, but I was following this when it was happening at the start of this year and can confirm that the DDoS script and archive text replacements really did happen.