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Re:Show HN: RecipeWriter – An editor to write recipes on Thursday October 09, 2014 @12:07AM (#8430769)
Dev here...

We have tied together parts of https://github.com/daviferreira/medium-editor, vanilla-js and jquery :)

Re:Google Apps Services Were Down on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @09:42AM (#5564401)
digitalpbk$ nslookup smtp.google.com Server: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53

server can't find smtp.google.com: NXDOMAIN

SMTP servers are down for me. Anyone else?

Re:Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it. on Friday February 22, 2013 @09:49PM (#5268329)
http://www.cucumbertown.com/magazine, I think we have it pretty clear about what goes to where.
Re:Stack Overflow was down on Monday January 21, 2013 @12:31AM (#5090034)
yup

Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com Address: 8.8.8.8

* google-public-dns-a.google.com can't find stackoverflow.com: Server failed

Because it seems to be from selenium (from referer), it is triggering the JS too, we are using Google Analytics.
Most of the IPs are from the EC2 subnet.
Mostly duplicate content & messing up my analytics (increased bounce rate, decreased time spend on page etc.)

Ask HN: How are you dealing with scraping hits from EC2 machines?

My website is being constantly hit by scrapers from EC2 machines http://d.pr/i/bLtE . I went aggressive and blocked all access from Ec2 IP’s http://bit.ly/SUOaof until I realized that quite a few reader proxies like Flipboard are based out of Ec2 and blanket blocking of these amazon machines wont help. How is the community dealing with this problem? Can you advice?Edit: I’ve seen somewhere that...

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Re:Post mortem of a failed HackerNews launch on Thursday November 29, 2012 @10:34PM (#4851698)
Developer here, since we had a click to open form at the time, we loaded the CSRF via AJAX. However that does not seem to be a good idea if we need it to work asap (and without javascript). I would look at something like SSI to put in the CSRF token to a cached page.