Why “scraper” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
You can pick a good hash. But even at million times efficiency it's still ok because with scrapers they can generate million time more traffic than casual users. You don't need…
by scotty79 · Oct 31, 2026
> ...is there a future where we end up with a version of the open web where everything isn’t paywalled or ID gated? Absolutely! When OpenAI and Anthropic fail to secure enough f…
by simoncion · Oct 31, 2026
Show HN: Huntsman – Self-hosted web scraper that turns pages into Markdown
by maddhruvhn · Oct 31, 2026 · 1 points
Proof of work is bad rate limiting. The power asymmetry is too immense. Worst-case example is SHA-256, where an attacker with dedicated hardware is millions of times as efficien…
by chrismorgan · Oct 31, 2026
A browser does not send 10k requests per minute to open a webpage. Even in the most and modern bloated webpages. And even if it did it wouldn't be to a single website. A user op…
by AlienRobot · Oct 31, 2026
> You can't accidentally build a web scraper operating off a residential proxy network Unless I'm missing something, most of the time you ask an agent to do any type of comparis…
by makeitdouble · Oct 30, 2026
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