Stop that script, I'm watching you ruin the board!
Re:One Million Checkboxes
by sillysaurusx on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @05:18PM
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I haven’t opened my laptop yet. But it’s inevitable someone will write one.
Either there's some kind of update batching or it's already happening.
Hi! Sorry it took me a bit to get to this, I've been hacking to keep the server up for the last several hours.
Lots of people are botting, I don't think there's anything wrong if you bot too. There's a tiny bit of client-side rate limiting and originally i had server side rate limiting too, but I got rid of that a while ago (I was cutting anything I could to speed things up).
Haha. Cutting rate limiting to speed things up
alright yes this sounds funny now but at the time my rate-limiting implementation was very slow!
(it's back in and faster now)
Re:One Million Checkboxes
by throwaway14356 on Saturday June 29, 2024 @05:15AM
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the worse thing is already happening
(I wince mentioning this publicly; still have flashback trauma from when some HNer wrote a script to download as much data as possible from our Firebase and got a $1k bill overnight.)