5 ms·
Tell HN: Admins: The HN Captchas are unsolvable by humans
I tried to create a throwaway account. 6 minutes of trying captchas later I gave up.
They are insanely difficult. I actually wondered if I was being trolled (and my attempt at creating an account had itself been hell-banned and was supposed to be unsolvable). The audio captcha was not accepted either.
- detaro 11y agoUsing Tor? Then it might be Cloudflare ... Generally, if you want to reach the mods/admins, send them an e-mail (hn@ycombinator.com). Way more reliable and quicker to get an answer.
- ratfacemcgee 11y agounsolvable captchas, hey? thats just what a robot would say...
- greenyoda 11y agoAs per HN guidelines[1], if you want to contact the moderators, don't submit a post; rather send an e-mail to hn@ycombinator.com. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- baobaba 11y agoHad the same experience. Solved the CAPTCHA after about dozen tries
- slug_tro_AWAY 11y agoThis is assuredly by design. IP addresses are mostly likely being hard-throttled according to time. Whether the CAPTCHA tests are actually solvable, the goal, and the effort invested therein, is clearly to slow down the rate of throwaways per IP, per unit of time. Not test for humans. It's not completely unreasonable to throttle an IP, and cap throwaways (read: ALL new accounts), to a maximum of 2 per 24 hours. It's also trivial to bypass with a different IP. But yeah, those fucking image CAPTCHAS. Holy shit, they are definitely unsolvable at the current setting. And the audio test, I'm six-sigma certain I got at least one in ten correct, and I was still refused. Pretty sure, given HN's predilection for subtle counter-troll tactics, like hellbanning, that they're configured as a total lock-out, and not a turing test.
- testingonetwo3 11y agoI'm confused. I just created this throwaway (I don't even know what I put as the password) without even seeing a captcha. How do you get to it?
- yoloswagwtf 11y agoget a new ip.
- DrScump 11y ago<I tried to create a throwaway account. ... I actually wondered if I was being trolled...> No irony there.
- _RPM 11y agoI noticed that if I ever tried to use Tor to create a throwaway account. HN didn't like that and had an unsolvable captcha.