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The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: shieldfont, ai scrapers, ligatures

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New font turns ordinary webpages into nonsense for AI scrapers (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: shieldfont, ai scrapers, ligatures

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Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: ai agents, claudebot, agentic web index

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Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes” for old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: blog, changes, old reddit

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Amazon is blocking some users from seeing reviews after mistaking them for AI bots (techspot.com)

2026-08-04 | by Rob Thubron | tags: amazon, reviews, ai bots

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Amazon blocked some shoppers from seeing reviews after mistaking them for AI bots (techspot.com)

2026-08-04 | by Rob Thubron | tags: amazon, reviews, ai bots

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Amazon’s fight against data-scraping bots is hiding reviews from real users (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: amazon, data scraping, ai crawlers

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This free font can trick AI scrapers into swallowing gibberish instead of your content (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Zo Ahmed | tags: shieldfont, opentype, seneda & abruccio

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Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: chatgpt, scrapemychats, export data

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The footprints of every building in NYC – updated weekly (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-20 | by Beautiful Public Data | tags: nyc, building footprints, skyscrapers

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Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-17 | by Sarah Perez | tags: patreon, cloudflare, ai scraping

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Reddit Will Require You To Log In To Use Old Reddit (slashdot.org)

2026-07-01 | get Reddit Old Reddit Login Guide → | tags: reddit, old.reddit.com, api

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Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-30 | get Reddit Premium Membership → | tags: reddit, old.reddit.com, api

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Airplane Crashes Into Skyscraper in China (futurism.com)

2026-06-26 | by Frank Landymore | tags: citic tower, shuangyue general aviation, china

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Cate Blanchett Launches ‘Human Consent Registry’ to Help Protect Your Likeness From AI Industry Scraping (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-23 | get AI Likeness Protection Software → | tags: cate blanchett, human consent registry, ai industry

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Bots are scraping open data — how should researchers respond? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-08 | by Stokel-Walker | get Data Privacy and Security Toolkit → | tags: access, open, open access

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Strava declares war on scrapers ahead of IPO (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-01 | by Ivan Mehta | get Strava Premium Membership → | tags: strava, robots.txt, api

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Strava blames zero-code AI apps and scrapers as it tightens API access (theverge.com)

2026-06-01 | by Emma Roth | get Strava API Access Tool → | tags: strava, api, zero-code ai

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End of ‘The Line’: A timeline of Saudi Arabia’s failed rendering city (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-29 | get Saudi Arabia Render Kit → | tags: the line, saudi arabia, megacity

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Hengefinder: Finding When the Sun Aligns with Your Street (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-22 | get Sun Alignment Solar Tool → | tags: manhattanhenge, hengefinder, azimuth

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What are AI tarpits? Understanding the tools people are using to poison LLMs (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-16 | get AI Safety and Security Book → | tags: llms, ai tarpits, data scraping

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Show HN: I built a Web-Scraper API that is 6-7x more efficient than current ones (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-14 | get Web Scraper API Tool → | tags: web-scraper api, json schema, runo extraction

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AI scraping has become its own media business (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-14 | get AI Content Scraper Tool → | tags: ai scraping, data middlemen, media companies

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New metal 3D printer shrinks industrial tech down to workbench size with laser powder bed fusion system — aims to bring laser metal printing to workshops and labs for $9,600 (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-26 | by Etiido Uko | get Creality Ender 3 V2 → | tags: metal 3d printing, scrap labs, laser powder bed fusion

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Intel reportedly says it boosted yields by selling what would normally be 'scrap' or 'low-expectation' CPUs — customers more willing to accept lesser chips due to overwhelming CPU demand (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-26 | by Etiido Uko | get Intel Core i5 Processor → | tags: intel, cpu yields, scrap chips

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Protect your shed (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-08 | by Dylan Butler | get Shed Security Lock → | tags: skyscraper, blueprints, enterprise scale

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Protect Your Shed (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-08 | by Dylan Butler | get Weatherproof Shed Kit → | tags: skyscraper, blueprints, permits

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LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-08 | get Web Scraper Bot Detection → | tags: llm scraper bots, acme.com, port 443

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Media scraper Gallery-dl is moving to Codeberg after receiving a DMCA notice (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-06 | get Gallery-dl Media Scraper → | tags: gallery-dl, codeberg, dmca

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Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-29 | tags: miasma, ai web scrapers, nginx