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Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010)
- junon 5y agoThis is magnificent.
- ChrisArchitect 5y ago(2010)
- dang 5y agoAdded. Thanks!
- luke2m 5y agohttp://www.5z8.info/best-russian-sites-for-bootleg-everything_f7h1ie_how-to-build-a-bomb http://www.5z8.info/best-russian-sites-for-bootleg-everythin...
- petra 5y agoYou bastard!
- smallstepforman 5y agoMake that x2
- pm24601 5y agoI got an ad :-)
- ycombiboiler 5y agoMy ISP warned me "you could be getting scammed" I never knew my ISP was filtering and checking my links
- wpasc 5y agoWow, utterly shocking. You won't believe what this article describes. Bitcoin millionaire reveals his 1 strange trick in this link. This article helped me lose 30 lbs using this 1 weird food.
- ghostDancer 5y agoI knew but had to confirm. Bfilliant.
- omginternets 5y agoI got a BT warning that I was being scammed. So glad I clicked "proceed anyway" =')
- danaris 5y agoThis seems like a great way to make people less suspicious of genuinely sketchy URLs...
- deepserket 5y agoReminds me of Pavlov's experiments
- Aeolun 5y agoIsn’t that kind of the point? I can’t imagine anyone actually using this, but it’s good fun.
- mro_name 5y agothe one dangerous thing in an Url is the host (precisely: the IP). Either trust it or don't. What it actually says doesn't mean a thing.
- rsj_hn 5y agothe scheme can be pretty dangerous, especially if it starts with javascipt: - it will run in the current origin.
- baoqdau 5y agohttp://www.5z8.info/dailystormer-password-cache_e8q5tu_how-to-skin-a-gerbil http://www.5z8.info/dailystormer-password-cache_e8q5tu_how-t...
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- dang 5y agoPast related threads: ShadyURL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579931 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579931 - Sept 2020 (5 comments) Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16791029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16791029 - April 2018 (68 comments) ShadyURL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11572679 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11572679 - April 2016 (2 comments) Shady URL: Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134868 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134868 - Feb 2010 (21 comments)
- merb 5y agoFixed them for you: 1. http://www.5z8.info/freeporn_m9o0wv_nic_cage_naked 2. http://www.5z8.info/manhunter_n7f2qq_double-your-wang 3. http://www.5z8.info/bombbuilding_x7j5jc_boobs 4. http://www.5z8.info/winamp-cracked.exe_o5m1zq_-49exploit-begin--
- dang 5y agoYikes, that really does create a visceral response.
- bombcar 5y agoHonestly the .info is the most frightening.
- smichel17 5y agoI dunno, ds.gd or whatever Discord uses takes the cake for me so far.
- Hammershaft 5y ago.gg? Stands for "good game". Haven't seen it get much use.
- pronoiac 5y agoPossibly better link: http://www.5z8.info/instant-purchase_g3k1bk_kkk http://www.5z8.info/instant-purchase_g3k1bk_kkk
- throwkeep 5y agoThat's why I recommend using https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... for your urls.
- ultimape 5y agoIronically the supicious and fightening url generator thinks that isn't a valid url. Tho it does seem to work in reverse https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com/a?áaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂáaaÂåAæãæãæaâÁáÆáÆææææææáÅæâåAåàåãæÀæäæáåÃáÅåâåÆåÄáÆåâæáåäåàæãåäáÅæaåAæa https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoWorked for me. http://www.5z8.info/gruesome-gunshot-wounds_s0j2qy_-OPEN-WEBCAM---START-RECORD-- http://www.5z8.info/gruesome-gunshot-wounds_s0j2qy_-OPEN-WEB...
- soheil 5y agoI don't understand how this shortens a URL, most URLs are still pretty long.
- dmurray 5y agoIt shortens the upper bound on URL length, so for computer scientists, it shortens it.
- Igelau 5y agoI was confused too, but this actually explains it pretty well: http://www.5z8.info/freeanimalporn.com-start-download_s2e9hb_openme.exe http://www.5z8.info/freeanimalporn.com-start-download_s2e9hb...
- MichaelMoser123 5y agoi think it's supposed to be funny, which would be against HN regulations; on the other hand it's something "that good hackers would find interesting". https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (or rather http://www.5z8.info/-49exploit-begin--_j0k3gm_uniqueinvestmentopportunity http://www.5z8.info/-49exploit-begin--_j0k3gm_uniqueinvestme... - or www.5z8.info/-49exploit-begin--_j0k3gm_uniqueinvestmentopportunity in all it's glory)
- calltrak 5y agohttp://www.5z8.info/whitepower_c1h3fx_how-to-skin-a-gerbil http://www.5z8.info/whitepower_c1h3fx_how-to-skin-a-gerbil http://www.5z8.info/dont-just-drizzle_p1t3un_how2pipebomb http://www.5z8.info/dont-just-drizzle_p1t3un_how2pipebomb
- dylan604 5y agowould we really need URL shortening if people didn't play SEO games by making URLs a complete sentence?
- Talanes 5y agoI think you would still end up with "Just put the article title as the URL" out of laziness a bunch too. Or because someone with decision making power doesn't like URLS that seem random.
- astura 5y agoI'm told urls with IDs and query strings look "unprofessional" in today's web.
- mewpmewp2 5y agoYes, because urls are part of UX and should be as readable and meaningful as possible. It is not just about SEO.
- dcow 5y agoWhat if my resource is indexed by GUID and I want to build a REST API?
- MaxBarraclough 5y agoThat wouldn't force you to use query strings. I agree it's not always a mistake for a URL to contain an ID value of some sort. How else would online shops assign a URL to each product they offer?
- mewpmewp2 5y agoFor REST APIs standard would be /resources?query=something&offset=50&limit=50 etc for list of resources. And single resource. /resources/:resourceId, so a bit different for APIs as opposed to user facing urls. While for a single resource when user facing it would be /resource/human-readable-resource-slug.
- kantrael 5y agoFirst attempt and what a big result http://www.5z8.info/protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion.doc_z6n2te_autoinstall http://www.5z8.info/protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion.doc_z6n2...
- distalx 5y agohttp://www.5z8.info/pirate-anything_u8i0hn_usb-hijacker http://www.5z8.info/pirate-anything_u8i0hn_usb-hijacker
- fastball 5y agohttp://www.5z8.info/racist_d3y4qv_twitterhack http://www.5z8.info/racist_d3y4qv_twitterhack
- colejohnson66 5y agoWait, what?
- samschooler 5y agohttp://www.5z8.info/how-to-build-a-bomb_l8f8gb_uniqueinvestmentopportunity http://www.5z8.info/how-to-build-a-bomb_l8f8gb_uniqueinvestm...
- jffry 5y agoIt's trivial with delay>0 enabled in your HN profile. (Delay makes your comment not appear publicly for N minutes) Post comment, get link, "shorten" url, edit comment, boom: http://www.5z8.info/dogfights_i2z2so_specter-exec http://www.5z8.info/dogfights_i2z2so_specter-exec
- colejohnson66 5y agoI figured it had something to do with editing, but didn’t know about the “delay” option. So when @samschooler commented, HN Replies[0] contained a link to itself, and that threw me off. Reminds me of the videos on YouTube that contain their own ID in the content, except you can’t replace your video post upload (unless you’re a major record label…) [0]: http://www.hnreplies.com/ http://www.hnreplies.com/
- jffry 5y agoComments have incrementing IDs so without using the delay option you could look at https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments and try to guess what your comment ID will be before posting, but now you're in a race to be the next comment.
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- alhasaniq 5y agoValidation is rejecting my .solutions tld domain
- diogenesjunior 5y agohttp://www.5z8.info/myspace-of-sex_f3b2zg_peepshow http://www.5z8.info/myspace-of-sex_f3b2zg_peepshow
- forgotmypw17 5y agohttp://www.5z8.info/toosexyfortv.mov_m1n9qd_peepshow http://www.5z8.info/toosexyfortv.mov_m1n9qd_peepshow
- Dangeranger 5y agoThis is the sort of project that the "old" internet was best at. I miss these kind of things, so much.
- sunshineforever 5y agoMe too. So hard to find anymore.
- paledot 5y agohttps://isitstillmarch.com/ https://isitstillmarch.com/ comes to mind.
- TurningCanadian 5y agoX-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.11 yikes!
- 9dev 5y agoIt’s a nice touch for sure. Someone’s got an eye for detail :-)
- kmstout 5y agohttp://www.5z8.info/-----TAKE.TWITTER.LOGIN-----_m5e1kp_click-on-this-and-youll-be-taken-to-page-that-will-create-pop-up-windows-until-your-browser-crashes http://www.5z8.info/-----TAKE.TWITTER.LOGIN-----_m5e1kp_clic...
- DennisP 5y agoI started trying it out but when the captcha presented me a fourth picture to click on, I gave up.
- sloshnmosh 5y agoI do something similar with my WiFi dais’s Crappy_wifi_2g Spam_and_Malware
- mro_name 5y agolol, I have a subdomain 'darknet' – that alone scares a lot.
- DataCrayon 5y agoI purchased https://m8.fyi https://m8.fyi. The intention was to create very short urls to put on GIFs/videos, making it easy for people to visit the source (e.g. https://m8.fyi/mon https://m8.fyi/mon), especially on mobile. Most avoid it or don't realise it's a URL!
- henearkr 5y agoThis is click unbait.
- n1000 5y agoI love how they don't use SSL.
- narven 5y agohttps://google.com https://google.com is now http://www.5z8.info/how2printmoney_x5n2rg_lemon-party-redux http://www.5z8.info/how2printmoney_x5n2rg_lemon-party-redux ??? shorten in what way? the https becomes http ?
- zeepzeep 5y agoTake a longer url... but whatever you didn't get the joke
- stjohnswarts 5y agoI was going to try it but they use capcha just because I'm using a VPN. Best wishes on the site though.