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We built beautifully designed pages that show everything we know about any IP address — geolocation, organization, ASN, threat intelligence, trust score, and more. Try it: ipdata.c…

I just tried a comparison of ChatGPT, Claude and Bard to write a python function I needed for work and ChatGPT (using GPT-4) whined and moaned about what a gargantuan task it was a…

I actually considered starting a similar thread because I noticed this as well! Lately, it feels like GPT-4 is trying to get out of doing my work for me :D. I've also started to no…

What health issues do you have that were directly caused by the nature of tech work?

For productivity - https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes For physical exercises - https://exrx.net/

What is the read latency?

Thank you for this comment!

What books can I read to learn practical finance/risk management I can apply? eg. I've recently learnt about sweep networks and intrafi to insure deposits above $250k and also mult…

What should you be doing in your twenties to be healthy when you're older? What can someone in their fifties do to be healthy in their sixties/seventies? Finally, is there a good b…

Bots here refers to automated traffic, and I don't think anyone on HN would be surprised by the assertion that most online fraud is automated.

Fraudulent activity by bots is a problem that everyone who's managed a large enough website is familiar with. Most bots originate from cloud IPs or hide behind proxies and VPN serv…

To clarify, showing captchas is what a number of our customers do and I doubt they do it as aggressively as google. Geoblocks are unfortunately often necessary to comply with the l…

Yes! Send me an email at my first name at ipdata.co.

IMO VPN services that don't defeat geolocation like Apple's Private Relay, the Google One VPN service and Cloudflare Warp are a good compromise for privacy. This is because they al…

"Threats" is based on static blocklists. "Trust Score" is generated by a model. So what this means is, "even though this IP hasn't been reported anywhere we still think it's high r…

No, if your reputation is really bad you'll probably just be shown a captcha.

This is actually proof that it works as intended. Our scores are made to be consumed by web applications. In that context it makes sense that a cloud IP that's used to send mail wo…

Could you try now and let me know if this persists?

For context, a few months ago we launched our Blocklists [0] feature which allows users to query 100+ blocklists and find all the ones where an IP address has been listed. Blocklis…

I've always been impressed by Discord's engineering culture and think they made most of the right decisions regarding their tech stack. What other startups got their tech stack rig…

Time complexity doesn't seem like a great reason to use a bloom filter. Why not just check if the IP is in a set? Set membership is supposed to be O(1). The reason to use a bloom f…

I've heard a few anecdotes of sites getting significantly better google rankings after switching to a .com.

I'm referring to the advice in this essay http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html.