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I suspect it's because of the number of requests that come from Chinese datacenter ASN values. If you block them, you subsequently get visited by residential proxies from South America and SE Asia, likely the residential proxy network they are referring to. source: i have the same issue...
unless perhaps you need them for accessibility reasons.
The cookie is "what caught my eye." not realistic phrasing

The cookie contained a pickle-serialized payload, "which was bad enough on its own." maybe not best practice but not bad on it's own

Flask session cookies are signed", not encrypted," so the... LLMs love to tell you what things aren't, as an emphasis on what they are

Re:Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended on Monday July 13, 2026 @07:14PM (#48900216)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3381822 still holding Godaddy's support for SOPA against them
"The Acyclica device casts a fake Wi-Fi network and tracks phones that try to join"

an incorrect start to a bunch of incorrect/outdated info

Re:ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did on Thursday March 12, 2026 @11:13AM (#47351836)
the line is being blurred as the need for tellers goes down many banks have the tellers performing personal banking adjacent tasks, like selling products, accounts or other upsells to existing customers
i think you're thinking of flair like on reddit, flag is more of a 'report spam' type feature
Re:We are building data breach machines and nobody cares on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @11:47AM (#47337164)
very human
kinda shady to just have a bunch of "reviews" all made up.
https://github.com/lrehmann/gps360-viewer

cool result from this otherwise defunct hardware!

very neat, setting codex on the task of building a mac-compatible app for my Pharos Microsoft GPS-360 Receiver... we'll see how it goes!
Re:Mobile carriers can get your GPS location on Saturday January 31, 2026 @04:41PM (#46841156)
GPS isn't a wireless signal sent by the phone, it is RX only.
Re:Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent on Saturday January 31, 2026 @05:00AM (#46835136)
webtorrent!
$600k for 6 years of legal battle and facing felony charges? no bueno
Re:TSMC Arizona Outage Saw Fab Halt, Apple Wafers Scrapped on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @02:57AM (#46043411)
Silane, with the chemical formula \(SiH_{4}\), is a highly flammable and toxic inorganic gas used in industries like semiconductors, construction, and dentistry. It serves as a crucial precursor for creating high-purity silicon and is a versatile coupling agent that enhances adhesion between materials like glass and polymers. Its reactivity also allows it to be used in coatings, sealants, and various chemical syntheses.

Chemical Formula: \(SiH_{4}\) Appearance: A colorless gas with a repulsive odor Flammability: Highly flammable and pyrophoric, meaning it can ignite spontaneously in air Toxicity: Very toxic by inhalation and a strong irritant to the skin, eyes, and mucous membranes

Re:Maestro Technology Sells Used SSD Drives as New on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @02:14PM (#45904731)
does amazon still do inventory co-mingling ?
Heat doesn't impact radioactive decay, though the sci-fi fungi could have some internal neutron reflectors that may make something interesting happen
Re:Major AWS Outage Happening on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:06AM (#45641611)
"Based on our investigation, the issue appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1."

it seems they found your comment

Re:Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month on Sunday October 19, 2025 @06:57PM (#45638789)
update: thanks for all the suggestions

I decided to do some testing with redirecting to a small vps that just keeps the connections open and sends a byte every 10-30 seconds. This worked and the traffic substantially dropped off. After doing some more digging though, I got concerned this may be in itself an abuse of my VPS providers ToS. The risk did not outweigh the benefit. Gzip bombs fell under a similar category of concern.

Re:Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month on Friday October 17, 2025 @03:48PM (#45621220)
I've tried localhost redirects, doesn't impact the speed of their requests, all ports are closed on the suspect machines
Re:Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month on Friday October 17, 2025 @03:46PM (#45621192)
unfortunately, it seems AWS even has firewalls that will quickly start failing these requests after a few thousand, then they're back up to their high-concurrency rate

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