24206
Top stories from https://news.ycombinator.com (with 100+ score) Contribute to the development here: https://github.com/phil-r/hackernewsbot Also check https://t.me/designer_news Contacts: @philr
Machine Code Isn't Scary (Score: 151+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vzcY
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vzcY
VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech (🔥 Score: 154+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vAQG
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vAQG
Consider Knitting (❄️ Score: 152+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vnhr
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vnhr
FFmpeg merges WebRTC support (🔥 Score: 167+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vAHC
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vAHC
The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State (🔥 Score: 163+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vAtX
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vAtX
Ask HN: Startup getting spammed with PayPal disputes, what should we do? (Score: 155+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6vyUg
Longtime user posting from a new account out of an abundance of caution.
I founded an e-commerce marketplace startup. We use PayPal's Multiparty APIs (PayPal Commerce Platform) for checkout. For the 10 days, someone has been bombarding us with purchases that they later dispute. There's consistent pattern to it:
* They use an email address that has no footprint online, always from the same two domains
* They use an unverified PayPal account to pay
* They pay a low amount, not always the same, in a narrow range for a digital item
* All of the charges were disputed within a few hours
They're not doing this through our API. The purchase process requires a browser because of the way our payment form is configured. There's an amount of variation to each purchase that tells us they're automating a browser. Logs indicate that they're changing IP each time. The events come in bursts and seem to be spaced to avoid automated detection.
We added the typical mitigations to our network stack and code. A few are still slipping through. Logs indicate a high amount of bot traffic.
PayPal does not seem equipped to deal with this. Their support is always extremely slow, relies on canned responses, and to date has a very limited understanding of how their own Multiparty APIs work. Their phone support people will not talk with me, they see no indication that my PayPal account is affiliated with these purchases in any way. They want each of our sellers to contact them independently, which we know will result in disparate cases that don't tell the complete story or offer any assistance.
Has anyone encountered anything like this before? We're struggling to find the motive or intended outcome by the attacker(s). We're a small company with a niche audience, we've never had a conflict with anyone that got serious enough that we'd expect them to come after us like this.
Any thoughts and recommendations would be greatly appreciated. We feel like we are on our own here and are unsure of how to handle it.
Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vzEY
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vzEY
Binary Wordle (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vyZT
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vyZT
Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6vyUk
Wouldn't this basically give us Google Books and searchable Scihub at the same time?
What would it cost?
Vision Language Models Are Biased (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vwDx
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vwDx
Merlin Bird ID (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vyZX
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vyZX
Precious Plastic is in trouble (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vyF7
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vyF7
Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window" (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vyHt
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vyHt
Sid Meier's Pirates – In-depth (2017) (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vn29
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vn29
Show HN: I wrote a Java decompiler in pure C language (Score: 151+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vwyw
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vwyw
Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America (🔥 Score: 151+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vBpt
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vBpt
IRS Direct File on GitHub (🔥 Score: 161+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vALE
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vALE
https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file
Meta found 'covertly tracking' Android users through Instagram and Facebook (🔥 Score: 160+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vAHW
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vAHW
"AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vApw
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vApw
The Small World of English (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vx9i
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vx9i
Why I Wrote the BEAM Book (Score: 158+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vzMj
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vzMj
Cloud Run GPUs, now GA, makes running AI workloads easier for everyone (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vzxe
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vzxe
A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine (Score: 152+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vynJ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vynJ
A manager is not your best friend (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vySK
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vySK
MonsterUI: Python library for building front end UIs quickly in FastHTML apps (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vuxG
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vuxG
DiffX – Next-Generation Extensible Diff Format (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vyYj
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vyYj
EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vgAq
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vgAq
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994) (Score: 151+ in 22 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vvBm
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vvBm
Show HN: AirAP AirPlay server - AirPlay to an iOS Device (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vyaQ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vyaQ
I made AirAP because I wanted a simple way to play sound from my Mac Mini when my speaker broke. But it’s got a ton of other uses too, like testing how audio sounds like on different devices, or repurposing old wired speakers.
This was incredibly fun to make - can’t wait for you all to see it!
Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored (🔥 Score: 161+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vyqF
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vyqF