HACKER Q&A
📣 tobr

Did dang get hacked?


The last three comments posted have been out of character. First some random incomprehensible typing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34285936

And then posting the same archive.org link on two several years old articles:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17327039#34286087

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10611015#34286089

Not sure what’s going on.


  👤 dang Accepted Answer ✓
Wow you guys don't miss much do you? Two different things were going on here:

I was working on some spam filters and posting some test comments to verify some of that. That was 34285936. I posted a few and deleted them but apparently neglected to delete that one. I've done so now.

The other two were related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33855594, which I sent a repost invite for. I was going through the previous stories about Paul Otlet and noticed that http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-future-of-the-web-... doesn't exist any more - so I posted an archive.org link in those two threads. This will be useful if and when we have a new thread about Otlet's Mundaneum.


👤 guiambros
Uh, this is indeed weird. Hope all is ok.

For those curious and without showdead, the first link was posted 1h ago, and shows:

"For ok whatfix swaptoAPP blahhhh"


👤 singularity2001
dang using live environment / account for dev / staging work, just as the rest of us;)

👤 anigbrowl
Mescaline, I can tell by some of the pixels and having seen many weird trips in my time

👤 icpmacdo
Maybe he uses LastPass

👤 quenix
Super bizarre, doesn't really seem like the behaviour of a hacked account either (those usually use their fifteen seconds of fame to promote cryptocurrency scams or to troll).

👤 smcl
It's probably just two accidents (making a mistake when pasting a link, then the HN comment equivalent of pocket-dialling) in a row.

edit: ah nm, he's posted a comment :D


👤 tgv
Might be a test in production? The first link is dead now.

👤 ssiddharth
If I were a betting man, I'd probably say either a pocket typing sort of situation (for the latter two) or a kid or animal gallivanting on/around the keyboard for the first.

👤 aaws11
maybe he's trying to code some kinda automation and running it on prod and the code is misbehaving.

Hope all is ok.


👤 acqbu
There's nothing to worry about guys, he's always been like that. You're simply paying too much attention - new year's goals, eh?

👤 NhanH
Seems like production repl access went wrong somehow

👤 adenozine
Why was this thread removed from the front page?

👤 anothernewdude
dang