<story><title>Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices</title><text>So I wanted to book some places for my next holidays on Airbnb and I came on the most annoying CAPTCHA I ever saw&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.postimg.cc&amp;#x2F;sXppmyxm&amp;#x2F;airbnbdes.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.postimg.cc&amp;#x2F;sXppmyxm&amp;#x2F;airbnbdes.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now you have to make sum of dices only to acces the website. And 5 times in a row.&lt;p&gt;And be sure to make no mistake ! I unfortunatly did on the fifth&amp;#x2F;last one (was getting really p*ssed), and had to start over !&lt;p&gt;So this morning I had to make around 50 dices sum just to acces this website.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t kow who came with this idea, but I find this really bad.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>DominikPeters</author><text>I see this as high-IQ software developers building systems to shut out non-high-IQ people from society. Managers look at these CAPTCHAs and think &amp;quot;oh I could solve these no problem, let&amp;#x27;s use them&amp;quot;. In fact, they can only be solved by unusually smart people or by ML bots. Arkose Labs (the maker of this particular captcha) explicitly advertises that their methods can keep out &amp;quot;low-skilled workers&amp;quot; on &amp;quot;human fraud farms&amp;quot;. They keep out everyone else too if they&amp;#x27;re not that good at mental rotation and mental arithmetic or logic -- this dice puzzle and the mouse labyrinth puzzle are pretty much prototypical IQ test problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsnr</author><text>Not sure I agree with your “opressive” high-IQ developers spin, but it’s clear that whoever implements this kind of captcha (even the not-so-challenging ones) doesn’t give a shit about user experience and deserve to metaphorically-speaking, burn in hell. I think it’s just an example for how developers should not make decisions about UI or UX in general. It doesn’t really matter how hard to solve the captcha is, it shouldn’t exist in the first place, even those with: “pick all the fire hydrants”.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices</title><text>So I wanted to book some places for my next holidays on Airbnb and I came on the most annoying CAPTCHA I ever saw&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.postimg.cc&amp;#x2F;sXppmyxm&amp;#x2F;airbnbdes.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.postimg.cc&amp;#x2F;sXppmyxm&amp;#x2F;airbnbdes.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now you have to make sum of dices only to acces the website. And 5 times in a row.&lt;p&gt;And be sure to make no mistake ! I unfortunatly did on the fifth&amp;#x2F;last one (was getting really p*ssed), and had to start over !&lt;p&gt;So this morning I had to make around 50 dices sum just to acces this website.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t kow who came with this idea, but I find this really bad.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>DominikPeters</author><text>I see this as high-IQ software developers building systems to shut out non-high-IQ people from society. Managers look at these CAPTCHAs and think &amp;quot;oh I could solve these no problem, let&amp;#x27;s use them&amp;quot;. In fact, they can only be solved by unusually smart people or by ML bots. Arkose Labs (the maker of this particular captcha) explicitly advertises that their methods can keep out &amp;quot;low-skilled workers&amp;quot; on &amp;quot;human fraud farms&amp;quot;. They keep out everyone else too if they&amp;#x27;re not that good at mental rotation and mental arithmetic or logic -- this dice puzzle and the mouse labyrinth puzzle are pretty much prototypical IQ test problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qwerty456127</author><text>&amp;gt; In fact, they can only be solved by unusually smart people&lt;p&gt;Wut? Have you actually ever met a person who can&amp;#x27;t? I always suspected the electoral majority is not particularly bright (which sort of contradicts the idea of near-100 being an average IQ nevertheless) but if this is &amp;quot;unusually smart&amp;quot; then things feel really creepy.</text></comment>