{"generated_at":"2026-11-12T18:49:21.520Z","source":{"name":"Hacker News public API","url":"https://github.com/HackerNews/API","attribution":"Stories and comments are public Hacker News submissions by their respective authors. HackerHub is an independent reader, not affiliated with Y Combinator.","content_is_untrusted":true},"story_id":50463899,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50463899","total_comments":204,"returned":19,"scope":"Up to the requested number of top-level comments in Hacker News ranked order. Deleted comments are omitted. Nested replies are not fetched; this is not the complete thread.","comments":[{"id":50464874,"author":"oliwarner","created_at":"2026-11-12T09:19:13.000Z","text":"Weird that they lay all this at the feet of vibecoding. I've asked for authentication systems several times and they've tended to come with pretty good feature-sets. Perhaps it's because I know what I'm asking for.\nEdit: I've just tried to log in and it's failed through both Google and email. Whatever they've done, they haven't tested it well.","parent_id":50463899,"replies_count":7,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50464874"},{"id":50464542,"author":"trvz","created_at":"2026-11-12T08:34:01.000Z","text":"This is not AI's fault. In fact, they had to probably fight the LLM to get it this simple.\nI'm a subscriber to Humble Bundle Choice (their monthly offering), and it has been a pain to receive a code via email at every login.","parent_id":50463899,"replies_count":3,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50464542"},{"id":50464574,"author":"1313ed01","created_at":"2026-11-12T08:39:23.000Z","text":"Can someone there please just click the rollback button now and we can all forget this ever happened. I don't think that new site can be saved. The old site was fine. Just leave it like it was. I bought a bundle as recently as last month. Three bundles I think.\nIf they just focus on finding more fun bundles to sell and don't touch the site code again, ever, it will be fine. I have been happily buying things I usually do not need from them since Humble Indie Bundle 1.","parent_id":50463899,"replies_count":3,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50464574"},{"id":50464277,"author":"Ekaros","created_at":"2026-11-12T07:55:42.000Z","text":"Perfect example of when rewrite is functionally worse for users and done for sake of doing it...\nI wondered why I did not get email code from them for login. Then it arrive one hour later... Seems like pretty big oversight...","parent_id":50463899,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50464277"},{"id":50464853,"author":"dtech","created_at":"2026-11-12T09:16:13.000Z","text":"> You can also change your password without confirmation - you don't need to either enter the previous password or double-enter the new password.\nThis seems to be mostly people who don't know what they are doing? I'd any model would default to requiring this since it's pretty much the default everywhere.","parent_id":50463899,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50464853"},{"id":50464420,"author":"aeQu5igh","created_at":"2026-11-12T08:16:02.000Z","text":"They deleted the download link for the original humble bundle. I can no longer download Gish.","parent_id":50463899,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50464420"},{"id":50464379,"author":"agilob","created_at":"2026-11-12T08:10:46.000Z","text":"> so bad that they have one-click payments enabled (which is illegal) for purchases.\nIs this actually illegal in a jurisdiction or against ToS of payment providers and they can get permanently banned from using card payments?","parent_id":50463899,"replies_count":3,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50464379"},{"id":50464656,"author":"nyktas","created_at":"2026-11-12T08:50:45.000Z","text":"After they repeatedly reinstated, without consent, recurring payment for their subscription plan Humble Choice, which I repeatedly chose to pause (yes, they offered it as a first-party option), I had to cancel the plan entirely, as an early subscriber back when it's called Monthly.\nIt showed me that they just don't care anymore.\nBut it still baffles me as to how an LLM could make it this worse, when they already had decent security measures. No top-of-the-line model should've done this. I guess it can only be concluded that they didn't even care to spend some money on SOTA models, even DeepSeek 4.1 Flash, instead turning to the cheaper but also much less capable models to save a few pennies.","parent_id":50463899,"replies_count":3,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50464656"},{"id":50464589,"author":"scaglio","created_at":"2026-11-12T08:41:52.000Z","text":"For anyone interested in deleting their account, I think this is the right link (at the bottom of the homepage): https://dsar.humblebundle.com/","parent_id":50463899,"replies_count":2,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50464589"},{"id":50464843,"author":"swiftcoder","created_at":"2026-11-12T09:15:05.000Z","text":"Didn't the new management layoff basically the whole staff a couple of years back?","parent_id":50463899,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50464843"},{"id":50465127,"author":"glimshe","created_at":"2026-11-12T09:54:09.000Z","text":"Oh wow, when I read that the information came from Reddit, I thought it was one more of those fake ragebaits...\nBut it's true. I couldn't login no matter how I tried to do it. The thing is broken.","parent_id":50463899,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50465127"},{"id":50464381,"author":"dava96","created_at":"2026-11-12T08:11:08.000Z","text":"I wonder if the issues I was having trying to download my ebooks from them is related to \"vibe coding\".\nIt was pretty frustrating not being able to download the things I'd paid for.","parent_id":50463899,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50464381"},{"id":50464944,"author":"dofm","created_at":"2026-11-12T09:26:55.000Z","text":"The flow/interaction of changing passwords and email addresses is somehow a bit of a pickle for people to get their head around.\nIn general I think it is obvious that logged-in users must need their password to change their email address, and forgot-password users must need access to their email address to change their password.\nI would be a little surprised if any coding-focussed AI, frontier or otherwise, didn't offer that by default if not prompted, but I will have to test this now with the local models I use — has anyone else?\nBut for some reason not everyone agrees re: the first of these.","parent_id":50463899,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50464944"},{"id":50464782,"author":"InsideOutSanta","created_at":"2026-11-12T09:07:36.000Z","text":"I'd love to verify this for myself, but I can't even open the website anymore, I get:\nThe server at www.humblebundle.com sent back an error: 431 Request Header Fields Too Large","parent_id":50463899,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50464782"},{"id":50464711,"author":"dromologist","created_at":"2026-11-12T08:56:27.000Z","text":"Are my humble bundle games gone? Sucks, cest la vie","parent_id":50463899,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50464711"},{"id":50464437,"author":"jjbinx007","created_at":"2026-11-12T08:18:23.000Z","text":"Thanks for this. Been a Humble subscriber for years but this has just persuaded me to cancel","parent_id":50463899,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50464437"},{"id":50464733,"author":"londons_explore","created_at":"2026-11-12T08:59:46.000Z","text":"> managed to fuck up so bad that they have one-click payments enabled (which is illegal\nSince when are one click payments illegal? Amazon's one-click payment patent expired in 2017","parent_id":50463899,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50464733"},{"id":50464862,"author":"geraneum","created_at":"2026-11-12T09:17:30.000Z","text":"https://www.eurogamer.net/humble-games-confirms-restructurin...\nAll staff laid off?!\nUpdate: this is not relevant or related to Humble Bundle.","parent_id":50463899,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50464862"},{"id":50464678,"author":"hollowturtle","created_at":"2026-11-12T08:53:29.000Z","text":"My order history is gone. The \"new\" look is bad, it seems another hallucinated neon brain fuck. Wasn't perfect before but why the need to change just for the sake of it? Why? What was improved? This is what pisses me off the most, using LLMs for doing things just for the sake of it","parent_id":50463899,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50464678"}]}