Replay proof: thewillmoss · $34,895

Target: thewillmoss

Original incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787042

Incident date: 2026-04-16

Reported amount: $34,895 · merchant/service: cloudflare-durable-objects

Cloudflare Durable Object onStart() called setAlarm() every wake; 60+ preview deployments each ran a self-health-check loop; $34,895 invoice Apr 3-11.

Replayed through the live sipi.bot endpoint

Request sent to https://sipi.bot/v1/transactions/evaluate on 2026-08-30T15:36:06.835653+00:00:

{
  "transaction_id": "replay-it-002-1788104166",
  "amount": 34895.0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "merchant": "cloudflare-durable-objects",
  "description": "Replay of publicly reported incident amount ($34,895, 2026-04-16) from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787042"
}

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_c4f710d8c05f",
  "amount": 34895.0,
  "merchant": "cloudflare-durable-objects",
  "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 2026-08-30T15:36:06.835653+00:00.