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Company blog · playvalorant.com/en-us/news/devgamesprogramming
VALORANT is the company blog at playvalorant.com, writing about games and programming. Since 2020, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Vanguard hits new 'bans-per-second' record”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Official VALORANT news, announcements and developer posts about anti-cheat, banwaves and moderation. Commenters cite them as examples or evidence, not as writing to evaluate.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Vanguard hits new 'bans-per-second' record2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-24
- Valorant Voice Evaluation Update2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-27
What Hacker News says?
There are a lot of projects out there that are attempting to do this because of the impracticability of a human team to deal with the entire torrent of information. For example https://playvalorant.com/en-us/news/announcements/valorant-v... > As part of a larger effort to combat disruptive behavior, Riot Games recently updated its Privacy Notice and Terms of Service to allow us to record and evaluate in-game voice c…
Comment linking /en-us/news/announcements/valorant-voice-evaluation-update/
on “Few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expends running HN (2020)”Submitted Vanguard hits new 'bans-per-second' record as a story · 50 points
HN discussionNot entirely. Valorant's anti-cheat tries hard to detect DMA cards, which eventually led to one of their largest banwaves. See: https://playvalorant.com/en-gb/news/dev/vanguard-hits-new-ba... Of course the cheat developers don't sit idle, so this is far from over.
Comment linking /en-gb/news/dev/vanguard-hits-new-bans-per-second-record/
on “The issue of anti-cheat on Linux (2024)”Submitted Hit Registration in Valorant as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFun fact: every videogame on Windows is potentially a userspace keylogger if you let it run in the background while, e.g. browsing the web etc. Basically, any application that uses the Raw Input API can request to receive raw device events even when the application is not running in the foreground, by using the RIDEV_INPUTSINK flag. The app will then receive every raw device input packet that the hardware sends to t…
Comment linking /en-gb/news/game-updates/valorant-patch-notes-3-07/
on “Microsoft's Userspace Keylogger Tutorial”Submitted How We Got to the Best-Performing Valorant Servers Since Launch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionKernel anti-cheat (KMAC) is an effective tool when used effectively and invested in (see Vanguard), but it only works when you are consistent and the team working on it are interested and capable. Creating terrible KMAC happens all the time, and gets treated as a one-and-done thing which will always be defeated. You have to continually watch the cheat market and work actively against it. It works, and Valorant with…
Comment linking /en-us/news/dev/vanguard-hits-new-bans-per-second-record/
on “CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents”Submitted Valorant Voice Evaluation Update as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Valorant Anti-cheat: Fall 2021 Update as a story · 1 points
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