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caydenm

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    Comment #43167757

    I was referring to generated or disposable card numbers rather than stolen. maybe that is the confusion? An concrete examples of converting a user using these types of cards for fr…

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    Comment #43166951

    100%! This was easy and now it is frustrating to get to the thing they want, the service, and the easiest route is to pay.

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    Comment #43166944

    There are obviously people who are doing free trial abuse for commercial gain eg. Signing up 1k accounts to get test credit cards or to resell accounts. They are not going to conve…

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    Comment #43166144

    Free tier and free trial abuse is a huge problem, but also a huge opportunity. We have seen customers where free tier abusers created 80k+ accounts in a day and cost millions of do…

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    Ask HN: Benchmarks for models other than LLMs

    I have seen some amazing benchmarks used to rank LLMs abilities, it got me thinking are there similar benchmarks for propensity modelling, churn prediction or other types of models…

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    Comment #39051560

    OP here, I was trying to say that these pages were behind an authwall and loading with userids from a specific user but without any of their cookies to support that auth. This led …

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    Comment #39051550

    This looks exactly like it!! Nice find!

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    Comment #39051033

    Josh on our team is so happy people discovered and liked his easter egg!

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    Comment #39051017

    Browser extension is what we originally thought for exactly the same reasons you did. We started to see some requests show up from iOS devices which didn't support extensions so th…

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    Comment #39050981

    That was on my list of candidates as well! Those usually have a specific user agent making it clear what they are, they appear from a companies netblock (eg. Facebook, Microsoft) a…

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    Comment #39050953

    Exactly! Our library is embedding in these pages and similar to Segment or other analytics tools will get told information about user events from that state. Sometimes that state i…

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    Comment #39050942

    It appears this is to find threats that might have no otherwise triggered or work out is particular sites are dangerous without monitoring a users machine. It is scary that for peo…

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    Comment #39050930

    I thought I messed it up! I had no idea this was a thing.

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    Comment #38316008

    The strength of a referral, the proximity and seniority of the referrer and role fit all come into play. A strong referral by a knowledgeable person often skips that person to the …

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    Comment #36993022

    I have spent most of my career as a product person before becoming a founder and one of the things I saw was a disconnect between sales and product. The right feedback wasn't getti…

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    Comment #36981010

    We are excited to share some rare behind the scenes from some of the tooling we use to evaluate account sharing. Happy to answer any questions

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    Comment #36810425

    https://www.datocms-assets.com/65181/1662686325-iconiq-analy... Is the correct one. I will fix in the original, Thanks!