Re:LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet
by redwall_hp on Friday January 16, 2026 @07:45PM
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Elmo Musk was pumping and dumping dogecoin for years before pivoting to starting an LLM Ponzi.
Re:LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet
by pkaeding on Friday January 16, 2026 @05:58PM
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Okay, but "fad-use-of-GPU bros" doesn't roll off the tongue as well.
Re:LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet
by themafia on Friday January 16, 2026 @04:34PM
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> and had a crypto project (worldcoin)
That was a biometric surveillance project disguised as a crypto project.
> Is there even any evidence that "crypto bros" and "AI bros" are even the same set of people
No, the "AI" people are far worse. I always had a choice to /not/ use crypto. The "AI" people want to hamfistedly shove their flawed investment into every product under the sun.
Re:LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet
by prussia on Friday January 16, 2026 @06:15PM
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I think the worst of the crypto people are probably the worst of the AI people too. Power/money-hungry grifters naturally move on to the most profitable grift when the old one peters out.
Re:LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet
by tjons on Friday January 16, 2026 @08:25PM
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It's never/rarely the leaders. It's always the followers. This site has a high bar for engagement given the depth of subject matter, but if you check another social medium I promise you'll see this pattern. All over.
Is there even any evidence that "crypto bros" and "AI bros" are even the same set of people other than being vaguely "tech" and hated by HN? At best you have someone like Altman who founded openai and had a crypto project (worldcoin), but the latter was approximately used by nobody. What about everyone else? Did Ilya Sutskever have a shitcoin a few years ago? Maybe Changpeng Zhao has an AI lab?