Moderation Log


Date/Time Moderator Story/Comment/User/Tag/Category, Action, Reason
2023-06-01 12:07 -0500 (Users) Story: A locking war story
Action: changed title from "Read + Seek considered dangerous" to "A locking war story"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2023-06-01 04:54 -0500 (Users) Story: Hacking my “smart” toothbrush
Action: changed tags from "security" to "security hardware"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2023-05-31 17:35 -0500 pushcx Story: Web's Most Underutilized API: Text Fragments
Action: deleted story
Reason: Self-promo from new user with many links to their product.
2023-05-31 15:25 -0500 (Users) Story: Programming with one or fewer hands
Action: changed title from "Programming with one or less hands" to "Programming with one or fewer hands"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2023-05-30 16:16 -0500 pushcx Story: On the RustConf keynote
Action: merged into snaabl (I Am No Longer Speaking at RustConf 2023)
Reason: Merging response.
2023-05-30 14:54 -0500 pushcx Story: Batten Down Fix Later
Action: merged into snaabl (I Am No Longer Speaking at RustConf 2023)
Reason: Merging response.
2023-05-30 06:20 -0500 pushcx Story: Rust has been forked to the Crab Language
Action: merged into w0dspc (CrabLang: A community fork of a language named after a plant fungus)
Reason: Dupe.
2023-05-29 10:43 -0500 pushcx Story: The wrong people are resigning
Action: merged into snaabl (I Am No Longer Speaking at RustConf 2023)
Reason: Merging response.
2023-05-29 08:35 -0500 (Users) Story: On educating users (2007)
Action: changed title from "On educating users" to "On educating users (2007)"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2023-05-28 21:23 -0500 (Users) Story: How to Rewrite a Service
Action: changed title from "How to Rewrite a Service - Michal Bock - April Gophers 2023" to "How to Rewrite a Service"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2023-05-28 15:46 -0500 pushcx Story: The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person
Action: changed tags from "security" to "security networking"
Reason: Adding tag.
2023-05-28 13:08 -0500 (Users) Story: The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person
Action: changed tags from "security rant" to "security"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2023-05-28 07:59 -0500 pushcx Story: Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused
Action: deleted story
Reason: Article does not relate to computing.
2023-05-27 14:07 -0500 pushcx Story: I sent robot forgeries to a handwriting expert
Action: deleted story
Reason: Video does not relate to computing.
2023-05-27 07:56 -0500 (Users) Story: I Am No Longer Speaking at RustConf 2023
Action: changed tags from "rust" to "rust rant"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2023-05-25 07:40 -0500 pushcx Story: Introducing Cellulose - a tool to improve inference performance of ML models
Action: deleted story
Reason: Spam.
2023-05-25 07:06 -0500 (Users) Story: SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes
Action: changed title from "xorvoid" to "SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2023-05-24 06:38 -0500 pushcx Story: Modal & Nonmodal Dialogs: When (& When Not) to Use Them
Action: deleted story
Reason: /s/gm6shy - Please don't use stories to reply to stories like this.
2023-05-23 15:28 -0500 pushcx Story: How To Use RSS ·
Action: deleted story
Reason: Lobsters is not tech support for your blog.
2023-05-23 11:46 -0500 pushcx Story: Removing PGP from PyPI
Action: merged into av31pn (PGP signatures on PyPI: worse than useless)
Reason: Merging response into main story.
2023-05-22 13:20 -0500 pushcx Story: How to Get Insanely Rich in the Creator Economy
Action: deleted story
Reason: Entrepreneurship is off-topic.
2023-05-22 13:20 -0500 pushcx Story: Making time for planning
Action: deleted story
Reason: Management is off-topic.
2023-05-22 13:20 -0500 pushcx Story: How music affects cognitive task performance (2019)
Action: deleted story
Reason: Article does not relate to computing.
2023-05-21 07:36 -0500 pushcx Story: Trapped by Technology Fallacies
Action: deleted story
Reason: Business is off-topic.
2023-05-21 07:35 -0500 pushcx Story: Bye Google, hello ChatGPT
Action: deleted story
Reason: Article does not relate to computing.
2023-05-20 10:48 -0500 (Users) Story: Web ARChive
Action: changed title from "Web ARChive - Wikipedia" to "Web ARChive"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2023-05-19 19:21 -0500 pushcx Story: ChatUML - An AI copilot for working with diagrams
Action: deleted story
Reason: Spam.
2023-05-18 10:50 -0500 pushcx Story: Announcing Sniffnet v1.2.0
Action: deleted story
Reason: Please stop posting every point release. These are not prompting interesting conversations.
2023-05-18 07:49 -0500 pushcx Story: Pixar technical library
Action: changed description from "Pixar just posted a lot of SIGGRAPH talk abstracts about things from Elemental." to "", changed markeddown_description from "<p>Pixar just posted a lot of SIGGRAPH talk abstracts about things from Elemental.</p>\n" to ""
Reason: Please don't use the story text to summarize the link.
2023-05-17 21:31 -0500 pushcx Story: my “notification sense” keeps getting triggered by the “T” in “Threads”
Action: deleted story
Reason: Please post bugs to GitHub - a screenshto would be a big help here, too.
2023-05-17 11:05 -0500 pushcx Story: StarCoder: fine-tuning & inference
Action: changed title from "starcoder: Home of StarCoder: fine-tuning & inference" to "StarCoder: fine-tuning & inference"
Reason: Toning down repetition
2023-05-17 09:54 -0500 pushcx Story: OpenBSD template on QEMU/Proxmox
Action: changed title from "『 0x61 』- OpenBSD template on QEMU/Proxmox" to "OpenBSD template on QEMU/Proxmox"
Reason: Please don't include site names in titles.
2023-05-17 09:54 -0500 pushcx Story: Design Patterns Revisited in Modern Java
Action: changed title from "Design Patterns Revisited in Modern Java by Venkat Subramaniam" to "Design Patterns Revisited in Modern Java"
Reason: Please don't include speaker names in titles.
2023-05-17 09:53 -0500 pushcx Story: 8 new top-level domains for dads, grads and techies
Action: merged into 1uyazs (The Dangers of Google’s .zip TLD)
Reason: Merging response into main story.
2023-05-16 11:58 -0500 (Users) Story: How to develop apps that use chatgpt?
Action: changed title from "How to develop apps with chatgpt?" to "How to develop apps that use chatgpt?"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2023-05-16 09:41 -0500 pushcx Story: Fedora Program Manager Laid Off As Part Of Red Hat Cuts
Action: deleted story
Reason: Business news is off-topic.
2023-05-16 09:40 -0500 pushcx Story: The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems
Action: merged into zrueoa (8 new top-level domains for dads, grads and techies)
Reason: Merging response into main story.
2023-05-15 13:17 -0500 pushcx Story: Magazines and Vmem: Extending the Slab Allocator to Many CPUs and Arbitrary Resources
Action: deleted story
Reason: Dupe of /s/k6xnx9
2023-05-13 23:38 -0500 (Users) Story: Radical Simplicity in Technology
Action: changed tags from "practices programming" to "practices rant"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2023-05-13 20:11 -0500 pushcx Story: A Hopeful Case for Generative AI in Software Engineering
Action: changed title from "A Hopeful Case for Generative AI in Software Engineering · It Will Never Work in Theory" to "A Hopeful Case for Generative AI in Software Engineering"
Reason: Please don't include site names in titles.
2023-05-13 12:50 -0500 pushcx Story: New TLDs: Not Bad, Actually
Action: merged into zrueoa (8 new top-level domains for dads, grads and techies)
Reason: Merging response.
2023-05-12 23:45 -0500 pushcx Story: The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked
Action: merged into zrueoa (8 new top-level domains for dads, grads and techies)
Reason: Merging rant.
2023-05-12 16:48 -0500 pushcx Story: Way to radically improve security of sudo: make a daemon instead of setuid binary
Action: deleted story
Reason: Lobsters is not the torch and pitchfork store.
2023-05-12 15:45 -0500 (Users) Story: First Rust Code Shows Up in the Windows 11 Kernel
Action: changed tags from "rust" to "rust windows"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2023-05-12 10:53 -0500 (Users) Story: Racket version 8.9 is now available
Action: changed title from "Racket version 8.9 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/" to "Racket version 8.9 is now available", changed tags from "lisp" to "lisp release"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2023-05-12 09:28 -0500 pushcx Story: 8 new top-level domains for dads, grads and techies
Action: changed description from "The interesting part of this announcement is that, among the new top level domains, we have extensions like .zip or .mov" to "", changed markeddown_description from "<p>The interesting part of this announcement is that, among the new top level domains, we have extensions like .zip or .mov</p>\n" to ""
Reason: Please don't use the story text to write comments.
2023-05-11 22:13 -0500 pushcx Story: Free Software is a commune…but why?
Action: deleted story
Reason: Political systems are off-topic.
2023-05-11 08:20 -0500 pushcx Story: In memoriam: Ian Hacking (1936–2023)
Action: deleted story
Reason: Article does not relate to computing.
2023-05-11 08:18 -0500 pushcx Story: The Craft Behind Crafting Interpreters
Action: changed title from "The Craft Behind Crafting Interpreters Handmade Seattle 2022" to "The Craft Behind Crafting Interpreters", changed tags from "plt" to "plt video transcript"
Reason: Fixing title and tags.
2023-05-11 03:02 -0500 (Users) Story: See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS
Action: changed tags from "security web" to "web"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions