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Re:LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet by dannyobrien on Friday January 16, 2026 @05:24PM (#46653029)
(and if anyone from Anthropic or OpenAI is reading this: teach your models to be polite when they write crawlers! It's actually an interesting alignment issue that they don't consider the externalities of their actions right now!)
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Re:LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet by pstuart on Friday January 16, 2026 @05:56PM (#46653333)
Hell, they should at least be caching those requests rather than hitting the endpoint on every single AI request that needs the info.
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