What a Hacker Stole from Me • Hacker News Board

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 1:51 AM UTC

walls wrote: post #9

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have found that there are people who just want to watch the world burn. There are many reasons, but, at its most basic, hurt people hurt people. That's something I like to keep in mind, when I'm reacting to someone being ... less than friendly ... By reacting badly, I then make it all right for them to justify doing it again, to someone else. I've found that I can defend myself, without becoming a foaming-at-the-mo…

I feel like a lot of people desperately want to make some kind of impact on the world. Something that causes some number of people to acknowledge their existence (or the effects of it). It takes real effort to do that in a positive way with a society built around surfacing negativity.

Most folks find that it’s a lot easier to tear down, than build up.

I’ve always really enjoyed building up, but it’s definitely not the easiest path.

I have managed to make a couple of mid-sized splashes, but many folks have no idea that I was behind them, which is fine with me.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by Procrastes » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 2:09 AM UTC

I'm a lifetime member and have enjoyed mynoise.net for many years. It's the best thing I've found for focus and distraction blocking. I have brain.fm, and YouTube music, but I keep coming back to his site because it's just better, more intentional, and more effective for me.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by wintermutestwin » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 2:09 AM UTC

The MyNoise app has tangibly improved my life. I use a white noise machine at home, but when I travel, MyNoise is my sleep companion and I particularly appreciate that I can set the EQ to block the particular noises that are likely to wake me.

Sorry to hear about the annoying hack…

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by Aurornis » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 2:19 AM UTC

emmelaich wrote: post #10

orourke wrote: post #4

Why would someone try to hurt this guy? This site is great.

It's just possible that someone at some big AI company just pressed a button to add this to their collection of training material. And lazily or otherwise just hit the checkboxes for 'repeat' and 'forever'.

The article explains that it started as a hacking attempt with requests to inject code. It’s not a simple AI company scraper.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by neuralkoi » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 2:19 AM UTC

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #6

Lovely, but naive. But naive in a way that most people (?) would like the world to be. But ultimately, unfortunately, unrealistic. Building has always been the kind of difficult that, had you known at the beginning then maybe you wouldn't have started. And still quickly and easily destroyed. Keep creating and building, otherwise there's nothing else to do. Love the obstacles for challenge of defeating them, don't hat…

I really like this perspective, it's right along there with what the Stoics would do:

"The wise act with a reverse clause--meaning that they not only consider what might go wrong, but they are prepared for that to be exactly what they want to happen--it is an opportunity for excellence and virtue.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by drdiamo » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 2:43 AM UTC

this is incredibly upsetting.

mynoise is one of the best things on the net.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by heavyset_go » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 2:47 AM UTC

walls wrote: post #9

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have found that there are people who just want to watch the world burn. There are many reasons, but, at its most basic, hurt people hurt people. That's something I like to keep in mind, when I'm reacting to someone being ... less than friendly ... By reacting badly, I then make it all right for them to justify doing it again, to someone else. I've found that I can defend myself, without becoming a foaming-at-the-mo…

I feel like a lot of people desperately want to make some kind of impact on the world. Something that causes some number of people to acknowledge their existence (or the effects of it). It takes real effort to do that in a positive way with a society built around surfacing negativity.

I think we need to recognize that there are people who genuinely get off on hurting others, and it really isn't any more interesting than that.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by drdiamo » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 2:53 AM UTC

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #6

Lovely, but naive. But naive in a way that most people (?) would like the world to be. But ultimately, unfortunately, unrealistic. Building has always been the kind of difficult that, had you known at the beginning then maybe you wouldn't have started. And still quickly and easily destroyed. Keep creating and building, otherwise there's nothing else to do. Love the obstacles for challenge of defeating them, don't hat…

> Lovely, but naive.

it’s unbelievable to me that anyone would do this to him.

are you familiar with what he’s done? the amount of work he’s put into helping people?

you should dig a little bit more into the story before badmouthing someone.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by giantg2 » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 3:15 AM UTC

drdiamo wrote: post #18

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #6

Lovely, but naive. But naive in a way that most people (?) would like the world to be. But ultimately, unfortunately, unrealistic. Building has always been the kind of difficult that, had you known at the beginning then maybe you wouldn't have started. And still quickly and easily destroyed. Keep creating and building, otherwise there's nothing else to do. Love the obstacles for challenge of defeating them, don't hat…

> Lovely, but naive. it’s unbelievable to me that anyone would do this to him. are you familiar with what he’s done? the amount of work he’s put into helping people? you should dig a little bit more into the story before badmouthing someone.

Many malicious people don't care if their target does good deeds. In some cases it makes them a bigger target, like hospitals are to ransomware.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by vachina » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 3:31 AM UTC

orourke wrote: post #4

Why would someone try to hurt this guy? This site is great.

It’s not targeted. Having maintained a site, my experience is the internet is a wasteland of AI crawlers, script kiddies trying to turn every form into an amplification vector, or vulnerability probers.