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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)? on Monday September 30, 2024 @12:59AM (#41693698)
I read about things I don't understand all the time, and the best way I know to train myself to retain information is to actively take notes directly on the thing I am reading on.

Using a highlighter or annotation type tool, if you will.

So I decided to build an annotation tool for all public webpages! Playground demos of how it will work: - https://www.contextdive.com/snapshot?snapshottedId=47692b19-... - https://www.contextdive.com/snapshot?snapshottedId=3557f52f-...

^These are previously snapshotted page, you can highlight anywhere and leave a comment by right clicking for the context menu

\PS: I still don't have persistence of comments working yet since its a playground, but would love to hear feedback if anyone would like to use it.

For anyone reading this, I thought S3 was referring to the AWS S3 and was really confused initially. Instead S3 here refers to a sleep state - https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to....
Re:Show HN: I'm making an AI scraper called FetchFox on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @03:07AM (#41442701)
Ah thats really interesting! How do you evaluate large scale cloud scraping services, since its operations are entirely hidden from you?

Personally I am looking into options in this area, are you planning to offer a cloud based version of this at some point/could you tell which existing ones are good if not?

Re:Show HN: I'm making an AI scraper called FetchFox on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @01:35AM (#41442223)
My impression is that facebook and twitter have really strong anti scraping measures. Is that wrong? And is there any reliable scraping services that can actually do scraping of those large companies' sites at a reasonable cost?
Re:Show HN: I'm making an AI scraper called FetchFox on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @01:34AM (#41442219)
I am really curious how do people actually evaluate scrapers? There are so many options and I am dizzy just trying to read them...

Also wondering how does the OP think about comparing themselves and standing out in the marketplace of seemingly bazillion options