Best of 2009

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2009. 92 posts.

History & Retro Computing
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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.