Man, Saturday's Hacker News was pretty wild. I saw a few things that really caught my eye. Wanna hear about it?

Archive.today Under Pressure

First up, there was this crazy story about Archive.today. You know, that site that saves webpages? Well, AdGuard did this investigation, and it looks like someone's trying to shut them down. The really messed up part? They think copyright holders might be intentionally planting illegal content on their own sites, and then when Archive.today scrapes it, they report Archive.today for having that content. It's like a trap! People in the comments were super confused, like, "Wait, so the copyright holders are serving CSAM just to frame Archive.today?" Wild stuff. Someone called it "shadow regulation," which sounds about right.

TCP, the Internet's Workhorse

Then there was this really cool deep dive into TCP, which is basically the engine that makes the internet go. It's super technical, but the gist is it explains how your computer talks to a server reliably. One interesting thing from the comments was how TCP connections start really slow and then "ramp up" to full speed, and how that ramp-up time is mostly about how long it takes for signals to go back and forth. Made me think about why downloads sometimes feel sluggish at the beginning.

Boring Co Safety Cover-up

Speaking of wild, remember Elon Musk's Boring Company? Apparently, the Nevada Governor's office might have covered up safety violations for them. Yikes. It sounds like they were dumping drilling fluids where they shouldn't have, and then the paperwork got, shall we say, "altered." People in the comments were, predictably, talking about how rich companies just see fines as a "cost of business" unless they're super high.

AMD GPUs Go Brrr

On a more techy note, AMD GPUs are apparently "going brrr" – meaning they're performing really well, probably for AI or something. It was a Stanford blog post. The comment section got into a big debate about open-source drivers for GPUs. Some folks were saying it's nearly impossible for hobbyists to write good drivers for such complex hardware without getting paid, while others were like, "Nah, FOSS has proved it can be done!"

Can't Recommend Grafana Anymore

Someone wrote a whole post about why they can't recommend Grafana anymore. They were basically fed up with how complicated and expensive it's gotten. People in the comments were nodding along, suggesting alternatives like VictoriaMetrics or GreptimeDB. One person even said they just stick to old Unix scripts because they actually keep working for years without all the hassle of these new, fancy, constantly-changing systems. Felt that one!

"Things That Aren't Doing The Thing"

This one was pretty relatable, an essay called "Things that aren't doing the thing." It's all about how we spend so much time *preparing* to do something, or *thinking* about doing something, that we never actually get around to *doing* the thing. The comments were full of people agreeing, saying it's often fear of failure or not getting it perfect. But then others pointed out that sometimes a lot of prep work is actually super important, like for painting, where 90% is prep.

Messing with Scraper Bots

Finally, this guy wrote about having fun messing with scraper bots. You know, those automated programs that crawl websites. He talked about sending them to "honeypot" pages or feeding them bad data to essentially poison their data. The comments were cool, explaining how this isn't just for kicks; it's a way to create "noise" and "destroy signal" for these services, making their scraped data useless. Someone even brought up *The Imitation Game* and how Alan Turing understood that you can't always react 100% of the time, or your adversary will catch on.

UPS Tariff Nightmare

Oh, and one more quick one: This poor guy got charged a $684 tariff by UPS on $355 worth of vintage computer parts. Almost double the value! Total nightmare trying to get it sorted. People in the comments were sharing tips on how to avoid these kinds of insane charges, like setting your UPS account to "deny inbound charges." Good to know for future online shopping!

Anyway, that's the highlights reel! What do you think?