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41points
45comments
#607of 1,739 in 2013
Top 35%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
8 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 6 critical, out of 33 comments about the project. Thread score +0.05.
Execution: 2 for, 4 againstIdea: 3 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun and entertaining to watch
From 2 comments
I've just been watching it for about 5 minutes, pretty entertaining actually.
codereflection on HNThis is pretty fun, I just posted a random want, I dont know where this is going but it seems promising.
swat535 on HN
Interesting spam-prevention approach
From 2 comments
Is it odd that I find the exercise to prevent the spam far more interesting than the product itself (not a criticism)? No traditional captchas, no oauth tie-ins... just…
hashtree on HNYeah, looks like a good technique for programmers to gain some experience : build a hacking magnet and defend it
cadalac on HN
Objections
Spam and automated abuse flood the list
From 3 comments
Great idea really! Just the spam is a problem...
jcla1 on HNphew, someone just automated it and is spamming you hard. this is interesting to watch, thanks :P
nsomaru on HNcan you limit the posts?
abimaelmartell on HN
Security holes such as SQL injection and XSS returning 500 errors
From 3 comments
I tried ``` As a SQL injection, I want a '); DROP TABLE Statements;-- ``` And got a 500 error... you might want to look into sanitizing the data
shawabawa3 on HNreproduced and confirmed.
nickch on HNI tried testing some XSS stuff and got 500 errors, you might want to make sure you are catching encoded < > stuff
doki_pen on HN
Offensive or junk content in submissions
From 2 comments
Did you release this anywhere else? I'd be appalled to learn all that foul language is coming from HN. EDIT: Very sad. Nothing more to say.
ComputerGuru on HNInteresting to see the amount of different inputs that people are trying. Swastikas and attempts to DROP TABLE aplenty.
zachgersh on HN
Requests
Add CAPTCHA or rate limiting
From 4 comments
As much as it saddens me to say this, I think this needs a CAPTCHA to keep the "hackers" from spamming it to oblivion. Cool idea, though.
jurassic on HNdon't captcha just rate limit by ip
todd3834 on HNJust rate limit (one word, two words?) to 1 per 30 (10 seems not enough, dunno) seconds and not allow more than 3 of the same strings repeated sequentially.
igravious on HNMethinks it needs a captcha...
mogi57 on HN
Add user authentication such as Twitter login
From 1 comment
I like it. To limit spam, use twitter for auth and connect ideas to twitter profiles, then let people flag other people as spam - and hellban their account. If you don't want…
_lex on HN
Add spam flagging and filtering
From 2 comments
Everyone's talking about auth to limit spam, but I think a more interesting approach is to let people click to flag spam, then train up a little naive Bayes classifier.
jweese on HNI like it. To limit spam, use twitter for auth and connect ideas to twitter profiles, then let people flag other people as spam - and hellban their account. If you don't want…
_lex on HN
Add upvotes and comments
From 2 comments
Cool idea. Seems pretty similar to http://www.tweetspiration.com/. After putting a decent spam-filter on this, maybe there's a way to introduce crowd-supported mechanics (ala…
aviswanathan on HNI guess that it isn't something you intended, but you've build great entertainment site. As your user I want you to archive these pearls of humour and let me upvote'em. Time to…
ArekDymalski on HN
Questions
Did you release this anywhere else?
From 1 comment
Did you release this anywhere else? I'd be appalled to learn all that foul language is coming from HN. EDIT: Very sad. Nothing more to say.
ComputerGuru on HN
What did you use to build this?
From 1 comment
what did you use to build this?
aitoehigie on HN
Alternatives named
Tweetspiration
From 1 comment
Cool idea. Seems pretty similar to http://www.tweetspiration.com/. After putting a decent spam-filter on this, maybe there's a way to introduce crowd-supported mechanics (ala…
aviswanathan on HN
Firespotting
From 1 comment
If you need ideas for things to build, you can look at http://firespotting.com - Hacker News for Ideas.
npguy on HN