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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 92 posts.

History & Retro Computing
2009
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be human

Scraping for AI training is killing small websites like ours. Traffic from users is drowned out by bots at a factor of 100 to 1. At times, the load on our server from bots makes our server so unresponsive we can't get in to administer it.