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 My post about banning a Chinese web bot? Apparently, that was really about me
           being shadow banned from Hacker News … which is news to me
                                        
Oh my! This is hilarious:

> Developer gets shadowbanned by Hacker News and asks for a real IP (Internet
> Protocol) ban instead
> 
> Sean Conner [1] discovered he's been shadowbanned from Hacker News and
> would rather just be banned at the IP level if they don't want him there.
> SEAN'S BLOG POST [2] | HACKER NEWS DISCUSSION [3]
> 

“Unsupervised Learning NO. 495 [4]”

I can see how the author might get that from if they only read the headline
on Hacker News [5], but (to his credit) he spelled both my first name and
last name correct, so he must have clicked through to my post (where my name
shows up at the bottom of the page) but not read the actual post.

Wow!

But given the author writes about AI (Artificial Intelligence), perhaps he
had his AI write the summary for him. Given the two errata he mentions about
his previous newsletter, if he does use an AI, perhaps he needs a word or two
with it … 

[1] https://boston.conman.org/
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2025/08/21.1
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45010183
[4] https://newsletter.danielmiessler.com/p/ul-495
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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