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How HN took it
10 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 21 critical, out of 54 comments about the project. Thread score -0.14.
Execution: 0 for, 13 againstIdea: 4 for, 7 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun and original idea
From 4 comments
Sometimes I wish I could leave the yaks alone. Most of the time I love it lol
nefitty on HNFinally a way to get my leetcode practice in
moneywoes on HNI love this!
poopsmithe on HNNever gonna give this up! Great project
splatcollision on HN
Better than traffic-light captchas
From 2 comments
Years ago at green tech college hackathon my team built a captcha that requires users to correctly sort trash into recycling, compost and non-recyclable bins. Anything little bit…
romanzubenko on HNIs a captcha too hard for any automation but easy enough for a human in a reasonable amount of time even possible? I feel like all captcha does is waste the time of non technical…
endisneigh on HN
Objections
Challenges are easy for AI tools like Copilot to solve
From 3 comments
Unfortunately the example problems are simple enough to be solved with AI. As a test I ran two of them by CoPilot, and it solved them instantly. I like the idea, but would want…
melissalobos on HNThis is a fun idea. I tried the demo a few times. msft copilot solved them all immediately. This won't be effective keeping bots out, but it may be good for turning away…
onionisafruit on HNWith just that prompt, Copilot keeps writing a comment about the function but never actually writes the function. Prompting to actually write the function by starting it with…
smitop on HN
Client-side checks can be bypassed
From 2 comments
Nice project! It's worth mentioning that this is a client-side captcha, making it trivial to bypass by bots / anyone.
AntonyGarand on HNCute idea! The checks seem to be running entirely on the client side, so for instance the following will pass all test cases ``` function isEvenNumber(num) { return…
JoshuaDavid on HN
Requests
Harder, generated challenges rather than a fixed bank
From 2 comments
Unfortunately the example problems are simple enough to be solved with AI. As a test I ran two of them by CoPilot, and it solved them instantly. I like the idea, but would want…
melissalobos on HNIs copilot looking for the function name and using that to solve it? Might just change that into a random string. function deliberatelyMisleadingString { }
MattGaiser on HN
Support for languages besides JavaScript
From 2 comments
I wonder if you could use advent of code or Project Euler style challenges that have a multitude of problem/solution pairs to bootstrap support for languages besides JS? The…
ZeroCool2u on HNMight be good to mention that javascript is expected.
tyingq on HN
Questions
Whether a refresh gives a different challenge intentionally
From 1 comment
If you refresh the browser you get a different challenge. Was that intentional?
foreigner on HN
Alternatives named
Traditional image-based captchas like Cloudflare's
From 1 comment
Well captchas waste human time but they do work. Example: As a webmaster, Cloudflare’s captchas have save my sites from abuse numerous times.
asadlionpk on HN