Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
by erekp on Monday March 31, 2025 @09:47AM
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how do you exactly fallback to common crawl? isn't the cost to even hold and query common crawl insane?
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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
by andrethegiant on Monday March 31, 2025 @11:57AM
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With AWS Athena, you can query the contents of someone else’s public S3 bucket. You pay per read, but if you craft your query the right way then it’s very inexpensive. Each query I run only scans about 1MB of data.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
by wfn on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @12:46PM
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Since I was just looking at this accidentally, here are some examples of how to query at a ~cent-per-query cost level (just examples but quite illustrative): https://commoncrawl.org/blog/index-to-warc-files-and-urls-in...