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previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740

dang 8mo ago
Macroexpanded: Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 - Jan 2026 (69 comments) I cannot make head or tail of this but it's more fascinating than the usual internecine bloodbath.
neonate 8mo ago
See also https://archive-is.tumblr.com/post/806832066465497088/ladies-and-gentlemen-in-the-autumn-of-2025-i https://archive-is.tumblr.com/post/806832066465497088/ladies... also Archive.today: on the trail of mysterious guerrilla archivists of the Internet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009598 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009598 August 2023
- parable 8mo ago
  There are several other posts made recently on the archive.is blog as well, some of which appear to be quite nonsensical or are otherwise irrelevant to the discourse at hand. They all appear to be LLM-generated. It's all very confusing.
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snailmailman 8mo ago
Interestingly, theres an account in that thread claiming to be from Gyrovague, but its not the same one thats in this thread, which has been confirmed to be legit as it is mentioned by name in this latest Gyrovague article. I wonder, is the newer gyrovague-com account because they lost the login for the old one? or was the old one a different person? Hopefully they can clarify, because if there's an account pretending to be them that makes this story even more confusingly weird.
- raxi 8mo ago
  there is also `japatokal`: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=japatokal&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... It is very possible that `gyrovague` is not `japatokal` but an impersonator.
- gyrovague-com 8mo ago
  OP gyrovague-com here. Yes, I can confirm that I was also "gyrovague" on HN, but embarrassingly I've lost/typoed the password.
  - cebert 8mo ago
    Password managers are great for that.
  - blenderob 8mo ago
    You can just email hn@ycombinator.com to get help. They can reset your password if there's someway for them to verify that you were the owner of the account.
  - cowboylowrez 8mo ago
    hey pal u need to take action your adversary has deployed the big guns: >And I will not write "an OSINT investigation" on your Nazi grandfather, will not vibecode a gyrovague.gay dating app, etc this guy means business lol
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operator-name 8mo ago
also previously from the owner of archive.is/today: https://archive-is.tumblr.com/tagged/patokallio https://archive-is.tumblr.com/tagged/patokallio
- Bengalilol 8mo ago
  Is it somehow related to this comment? <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867686 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867686>

dang 8mo ago

Macroexpanded: Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 - Jan 2026 (69 comments) I cannot make head or tail of this but it's more fascinating than the usual internecine bloodbath.

neonate 8mo ago

See also https://archive-is.tumblr.com/post/806832066465497088/ladies-and-gentlemen-in-the-autumn-of-2025-i https://archive-is.tumblr.com/post/806832066465497088/ladies... also Archive.today: on the trail of mysterious guerrilla archivists of the Internet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009598 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009598 August 2023

parable 8mo ago
There are several other posts made recently on the archive.is blog as well, some of which appear to be quite nonsensical or are otherwise irrelevant to the discourse at hand. They all appear to be LLM-generated. It's all very confusing.
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snailmailman 8mo ago

Interestingly, theres an account in that thread claiming to be from Gyrovague, but its not the same one thats in this thread, which has been confirmed to be legit as it is mentioned by name in this latest Gyrovague article. I wonder, is the newer gyrovague-com account because they lost the login for the old one? or was the old one a different person? Hopefully they can clarify, because if there's an account pretending to be them that makes this story even more confusingly weird.

raxi 8mo ago
there is also `japatokal`: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=japatokal&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... It is very possible that `gyrovague` is not `japatokal` but an impersonator.
gyrovague-com 8mo ago
OP gyrovague-com here. Yes, I can confirm that I was also "gyrovague" on HN, but embarrassingly I've lost/typoed the password.
- cebert 8mo ago
  Password managers are great for that.
- blenderob 8mo ago
  You can just email hn@ycombinator.com to get help. They can reset your password if there's someway for them to verify that you were the owner of the account.
- cowboylowrez 8mo ago
  hey pal u need to take action your adversary has deployed the big guns: >And I will not write "an OSINT investigation" on your Nazi grandfather, will not vibecode a gyrovague.gay dating app, etc this guy means business lol
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operator-name 8mo ago

also previously from the owner of archive.is/today: https://archive-is.tumblr.com/tagged/patokallio https://archive-is.tumblr.com/tagged/patokallio

Bengalilol 8mo ago
Is it somehow related to this comment? <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867686 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867686>