I found Altcha just recently. I'm curious what people think of it. Are there caveats compared to Google Recaptcha or Cloudflare Turnstile? Please share your thoughts.

That's more of a flash-lite thing now, I believe

when I had this idea, I knew I had to make it. launched it back in November to family & friends.

10 new questions each day. predict the most popular answer. one miss and you're out. give it a try! do you actually understand the normies?

It's too easy to "cheat" by panning around until a word toggles in the list, effectively telling you which corner of the screen the word can be found in

That doesn't sound right. Have you seen documentation on this?

Important to note that it's not a dichotomy as long as you're not an "extremist" of either side. Build for yourself and a big market. Take pride in competing at a high level. If you view "hustling" as an 'all work, no play' experience, you're engaged in absolutist thinking.

Tangential: I was recently wishing that bitwise flags had better support in Postgres. For now, bools are just easier to work with

Delegate your thinking to HN comments at your own peril

The content isn't difficult. People are just lazy

If you use a proper framework, you don't have to manage the socket lifecycle and it doesn't complicate your server.