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Re:Tell HN: GitHub is blocking search unless you are logged in by al_borland on Saturday February 10, 2024 @05:57PM (#39331006)
There is a cost to serving up all that content, and if hundreds of AI start ups are all trying to pull in data, that can add up fast. It’s not typical user behavior.
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Re:Tell HN: GitHub is blocking search unless you are logged in by ffgjgf1 on Monday February 12, 2024 @04:17AM (#39342985)
If it’s just static content it wouldn’t really be that expensive. In reality egress traffic is extremely cheap compared to what Azure/AWS etc. are charging.
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