Yes, whatever works well for me.

YC is not about anything but money.

No thanks.

""" Balanced and civil engagement with occasional mild suggestions — mostly neutral and constructive. """

PSA: It is NSFL, don't be curious and ruin your day.

The article is about AI web crawlers. How can your tool help and how would one set it up for this specific context?

I don't see how an AI crawler is different from any others.

The simplest approach is to count the UA as risky or flag multiple 404 errors or HEAD requests, and block on that. Those are rules we already have out of the box.

It's open source, there's no pain in writing specific rules for rate limiting, thus my question.

Plus, we have developed a dashboard for manually choosing UA blocks based on name, but we're still not sure if this is something that would be really helpful for website operators.

>It's open source, there's no pain in writing specific rules for rate limiting, thus my question.

Depends on the goal.

Author wants his instance not to get killed. Request rate limiting may achieve that easily in a way transparent to normal users.

> count the UA as risky

It's trivial to spoof UAs unfortunately.

It depends. If you want to stop OAI-SearchBot/1.3, UA will be enough.

Why would you need tirreno if you just want to stop OAI's bot though?

OAI's is just an example that's easy to explain.

I believe that if something is publicly available, it shouldn't be overprotected in most cases.

However, there are many advanced cases, such as crawlers that collect data for platform impersonation (for scams) or custom phishing attacks, or account brute-force attacks. In those cases, I use tirreno to understand traffic through different dimensions.

That's a sign of addiction and I highly recommend changing your behaviour towards those pages!

I feel like I need to avoid channelling Bob Saget from Half Baked when I say that is not addiction. That's a habit.

There is a noprocrast feature in your settings to specify how long you can stay on for a single session and the frequency at which you can view HN. Super helpful!

oh interesting (honestly!), how is that it distinguished?

Don’t let me distract from this learning opportunity with my armchair expertise. There are a lot of articles out there for this exact topic, but here’s one that’s pretty good.

https://relevancerecovery.com/habit-vs-addiction/

And that is a good thing. Sleep tight!

> Milvus is an open-source vector database built for GenAI applications.

That map projection is the worst choice possible. It makes Russia appear much larger in relation to e. g. Africa than it really is.

> That map projection is the worst choice possible.

For navigation, the Mercator projection is useful, because a straight line on the chart is where you go with a constant bearing. Aerial navigation is waypoint/bearing/waypoint/bearing. So most aviation maps are Mercator.

I love how emphasize is given to accessibility for older adults, such as the orange man. But I guess he gets his printouts with few words and big fonts anyways.

The way he writes indicates that he has very little experience with reading in the first place. Weird wording, strange capitalization and punctiation, etc.

Trump doesn't read, according to Pete Davidson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUW3HfPEdKY

...and then he ignores them.

lol he's not reading printouts.

But it's not a joke. We've had a decade of reports with insiders indicating he doesn't read daily briefings. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-looks-at-charts-in-int...

Can he read? No doubt he can read some. I can't say he's illiterate. But functionally, he's nowhere near the reading and comprehension skills of what we should expect from a national leader.

Can't edit but... an adult who grew up in the US their entire life who can't read out "acetaminophen" or "yosemite" is certainly under-literate.