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    Comment #47279386

    This is exactly why you can't replace DevOps engineers with AI

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    Comment #47233125

    Before installing new software, I usually visit its GitHub page or Wikipedia entry first and click through to the official site from there. I just don't trust the 'official' sites …

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    Comment #47072131

    Does this form based interaction offer any specific advantages over chatting directly with ChatGPT or Claude? Essentially the site is still powered by their APIs and it is just the…

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    Comment #47031837

    Yes, Facebook's early PHP code looks pretty bad by today's standards Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007: https://gist.github.com/nikcub/3833406#file-index-php

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    Comment #47012843

    I don't think npmx has better UI/UX than npmjs.com. It could even be said to be worse. The npmx page doesn't have any other colors, it's all gray, and the page has too many element…

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    Comment #46838632

    Some code may be AI generated, because the code uses "══════" to separate terminal output. In my experience, Claude really likes to use this character to separate terminal output.

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    Comment #46553813

    I recently built a similar project too, a self hosted IP reputation API service: https://github.com/NetworkCats/ProxyD

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    Show HN: Turning Wikipedia's blocklists into a proxy detection database

    OpenProxyDB automatically fetches IP addresses that have been blocked by Wikipedia for proxy-related reasons (VPN, Tor, webhost, etc.) and exports them to a CSV file. The crawler r…