Replay proof: huksley · $4,600

Target: huksley

Original incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31907374

Incident date: 2022-06-28

Reported amount: $4,600 · merchant/service: aws-cloudfront-lambda-edge

Serverless function called itself recursively via CloudFront + Lambda@Edge with 30s timeout; first alert $1,484; settled bill $4,600 (title rounds to $4.5k).

Replayed through the live sipi.bot endpoint

Request sent to https://sipi.bot/v1/transactions/evaluate on 2026-08-30T15:36:11.939938+00:00:

{
  "transaction_id": "replay-it-004-1788104171",
  "amount": 4600.0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "merchant": "aws-cloudfront-lambda-edge",
  "description": "Replay of publicly reported incident amount ($4,600, 2022-06-28) from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31907374"
}

Exact response:

{
  "decision": "BLOCKED",
  "reason": "Block any single transaction over $500",
  "rule_id": "rul_eff79f00f6",
  "triggered": [
    {
      "rule_id": "rul_eff79f00f6",
      "rule_type": "per_transaction",
      "action": "BLOCKED",
      "label": "Block any single transaction over $500"
    }
  ],
  "transaction_id": "txn_e9ea1cbd2b71",
  "amount": 4600.0,
  "merchant": "aws-cloudfront-lambda-edge",
  "category": ""
}

For this replayed transaction proposal, the live sipi.bot endpoint returned BLOCKED with the rule shown above.

Limitations

This is a replay of a publicly reported amount, not a claim about avoided losses. The decision shown is a timestamped observation of the public demo decision API for this single replayed proposal, not a statement about the historical incident or any party's account.

Source checked live at 2026-08-30T15:36:11.939938+00:00.