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Re:Scraping Instagram by dang on Friday April 01, 2022 @12:41PM (#30880209)
Please don't break the site guidelines like this! It's really important not to harass new users—we don't want HN to become a closed, stale community.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Yes, some new accounts are abusive, but we have ways of dealing with that (you can always email [email protected] to alert us). But it's very important to err on the side of welcoming people. There's a limit to how much damage new accounts can do anyhow.