Re:Meta's Muse is fantastic for web scraping
by mvt67 on Friday October 02, 2026 @04:24AM
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Already have whatsapp and signal for this. Hardly need a website for these thing anymore.
Re:Meta's Muse is fantastic for web scraping
by bayindirh on Friday October 02, 2026 @04:30AM
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So shall we build more walls around our content and make it anti-FAIR?
We can stop putting information in the open in any form, as well.
FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable.
Re:Meta's Muse is fantastic for web scraping
by mvt67 on Friday October 02, 2026 @04:47AM
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Why do you build a wall around your house genius?
Re:Meta's Muse is fantastic for web scraping
by bayindirh on Friday October 02, 2026 @04:59AM
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A public website is not a house, it's something between a big board in the city square or a community center where people can meet an interact.
Considering that, shall we paint the boards black or lock the doors to community spaces?
Also, while I assume this is not your first account here, these are worthy of reminding:
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
> Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.
For more, please refer to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As an example, imagine a really small community maintaining a small site/wiki/cms/forum that has the ultimate goal of promoting human relationships around a common interest (let's say retro computing as an example, but it could be anything). There are many many many such communities on the internet.
It's very improbable you will specifically instruct your LLM to access their site, it's way more probable it will happen without you even knowing, as a result of you doing some /deep-research or something. And not only that, but your LLM will probably spawn a ton of agents to gather as much information as possible in as little time as possible. A torrent of requests will go at this community's site, effectively killing it. They are a small community, they use their spare time and money to maintain something to serve them, they don't have the resources to serve your LLM and until you showed up they probably never even had to think about Cloudflare. They are certainly not against you getting the content, but they don't want you causing them issues either and you just did.
End result? Your LLM (effectively you) DoSed a small community's site. You caused harm. Could you have caused similar harm if you were doing it on your own? Sure. But you would have done it on purpose, not accidentally while instructing your LLM to do something else.
This isn't a made up story, it has happened already more than 1 times.
So the question is, now that you know your LLM can cause harm without you even knowing it, how does this change your stance?