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Just played 5 rounds. I wanted to see my score as ranked against others, but u didn't do that. That's like me saying here is 800 points for your post. There is no context for the score.


The context is how close you were to the correct answer, not to your peers.


Does it at least tell you how close you were for each one? (feedback so you can improve)


Yes there's a feedback page for each round explaining the pic and showing the location, also a breakdown page after every 5 round match.


Yes, score rankings are missing. There's a leaderboard for the daily, but only shows accounts you have friended.

For reference, I tend to hover around 44k for the daily. 48k is a lucky/easy day, 40k some disaster happened. Under 40 is very rare. I like to think that would be above average, but without rankings I don't know :)


indeed, this is screaming for a leaderboard and eventual Geoguesser. Sadly I do believe the reasoning models can one shot this? Maybe would take away all the fun


I got ~28,000.


I think you are right. A bunch of them appear to be some sort of redirect attack (I'll have to read that link you posted). In other cases I see the just upload files directly such as: https://www.rld.nm.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/z7ot3u38jf... or in that original link I posted it looks like they took over the entire subdomain somehow.

I have quite a few more examples but they are too explicit to post.

My thought on this matter is, if we can't get this contained now on .gov websites then how will we be able to handle malicious spammers when they fully realize the power of AI driven spam attacks? I think things will get out of control real fast very soon.


I guess at least the EU are lining up to put up an iron curtain once they get all the locals KYCd for EUnet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44168134


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