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The Open Web Spent Ten Days Building Walls and Could Not Agree Who Was Outside

Four Hacker News threads between 6 and 16 September, 1,709 points and 1,115 comments, all about keeping automated traffic out. The same communities named four different villains, and one commenter argued the same thing in two of them.

Sep 17, 20267 min

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Repo7 days ago

Cloudflare's Security Audit Skill Has 9,300 Stars and 14 Commits, So We Tried to Feed It a Fake Finding

9,300 stars in three months for 2,345 lines, most of them Markdown. We cloned it, ran its 65 tests, and handed its validator the exact shape of finding an LLM invents when it has nothing.

Sep 17, 20266 min

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Watercooler16 days ago

Hacker News Argued About Cloudflare While Lobsters Quietly Reported What Leaving Costs

A claim that 89.6 percent of CDN-using European companies sit behind Cloudflare drew 242 points and 205 comments in a day. We fingerprinted 24 large European company sites ourselves and found Cloudflare on exactly one of them.

Sep 8, 20267 min