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Post by IshKebab » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 6:28 AM UTC

fzeroracer wrote: post #256

IshKebab wrote: post #204

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More important note to people reading this: use your brain. Is it likely that a scammer will create an extremely professional website and product, and then their scam is that ride the coat tails of another brand and try to keep that scam up with Hacker News comments ? (I think lots of HN people have issues with reality so just in case the answer is: absolutely not.)

Yes, actually. Well, everything except the last point. If you're unfamiliar with UFO 50, it's a recent collection of games inspired by 80s-esque computer game design. The reason why I bring this up is because there's a website (ufo50.net) which is actually fake and completely unrelated to the actual ufo50 site (50games.fun) which is designed to be SEO-bait so that it can absorb traffic from search engines.

Post by adamyormark » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 6:30 AM UTC

darrelld wrote: post #4

This is cool, I've thought of building something like this for years now. The price is a bit high, but glad to see it in the real world.

Post by adamyormark » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 6:31 AM UTC

LeafItAlone wrote: post #3

I love this idea. If it was $100 instead of $189, I would order two (one for me, one for partner) as soon as they were available.

Post by kstrauser » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 6:34 AM UTC

susanthenerd wrote: post #370

RockRobotRock wrote: post #364

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one comment to promote your product is enough. we don't need 26 (yes i counted)

You know if you click on the timestamp on a comment there is a flag button? Also you are right comments like this are very annoying. I'm still surprised that HN doesn't have some kind of spam filter or rate limit

Post by Corrado » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 6:36 AM UTC

creatonez wrote: post #179

poincaredisk wrote: post #173

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Side note to people reading this: in general, when suspecting a scam, don't blindly trust anyone who says "I'm ... and I confirm this is OK". This may be the same very person who you're suspecting of original scam ;). Not a theory, I have cases looks this every other week in my dayjob. In this case I believe the post is legit.

It might ring better for the cypherpunks here that zhovner has verified their HN account ownership with their keybase GPG key, which can only be done by editing an account's profile description to include a specific signature (or by defacing HN / breaching the account). And the same key is also used to prove ownership of their Github account and website.