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Blocking LLMs from your website cuts you off from next-generation search

news.ycombinator.com John Wang 2025-12-08 05:38:09

Why blocking LLMs from your website is dumb John Wang 2 min read · 1 hour ago 1 hour ago -- Listen Share Perplexity was recently accused of scraping sites that had explicitly disallowed LLM crawlers in their robots.txt files. In the wake of that revelation, a wave of how-to guides for blocking large-language-model scraping has surfaced [0]. They’re generally highly vitriolic, with people opposing this on both moral grounds (“AI is stealing your content”) as well as displaying a general distaste

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Coding error blamed after parts of Constitution disappear from US website

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-08 08:50:38

The Library of Congress today said a coding error resulted in deletion of parts of the US Constitution from Congress' website and promised a fix after many Internet users pointed out the missing sections this morning. "It has been brought to our attention that some sections of Article 1 are missing from the Constitution Annotated (constitution.congress.gov) website," the Library of Congress said today. "We've learned that this is due to a coding error. We have been working to correct this and e

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Sections on habeas corpus and nobility titles were temporarily removed from Congress' US Constitution website

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-08 12:29:56

Key sections of the US Constitution were temporarily removed from Congress' website. Provisions including habeas corpus (due process) and the prohibition of nobility titles (like, say, King) vanished from the digital version of the document. They've since been restored. 404 Media first reported on the edits after users on Lemmy forums spotted them. There are many ways to read a copy of the US Constitution. But the Library of Congress' online version is one of the easiest to find. Alongside its

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Google says AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

news.ycombinator.com Liz Reid 2025-12-08 11:32:42

AI is driving the most significant upgrade of the Google Search experience ever. With AI Overviews and more recently AI Mode, people are able to ask questions they could never ask before. And the response has been tremendous: Our data shows people are happier with the experience and are searching more than ever as they discover what Search can do now. At the same time, we’ve recently heard some questions about what this means for traffic to websites from Google. So we wanted to share some insig

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Tavily raises $25M to connect AI agents to the web

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-12-09 03:15:58

Companies across many industries are implementing AI agents for internal use, automating a wide range of tasks. In the financial sector, AI agents are critical for fraud detection. They can analyze vast amounts of transaction data in real time. Meanwhile, sales organizations are using AI agents to gather data on potential customers. These AI sales agents can scour the web and social media for information. To be effective, these agents need to access the internet and find information from relev

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Microsoft’s plan to fix the web with AI has already hit an embarrassing security flaw

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-10 03:30:33

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Researchers have already found a critical vulnerability in the new NLWeb protocol Microsoft made a big deal about just just a few months ago at Build. It’s a protocol that’s supposed to be “HTML for the Agentic Web,” offering ChatGPT-like search to any website or app. Discovery of the embar

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Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-11 17:33:03

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler gone wild. Many people came to Perplexity’s defense. They argued that Perplexity accessing sites in defiance of the website owner’s wishes, while controversial, is acceptable. And this is a controversy that will certainly grow as AI agents flood the internet: Should an agent accessing a website on b

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Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-13 08:14:47

Perplexity has long been accused of deliberately bypassing anti-scraping measures to retrieve web content. While the company has historically dismissed these accusations as disingenuous or misunderstandings, a new report shows that not only is the practice still happening, but it may actually be getting worse. Perplexity’s main counter-argument: semantics The issue with Perplexity’s web crawling practices first came to light in June 2024, when Wired and other media outlets accused the company

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Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-13 12:11:10

Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appear to be "stealth crawling" sites by disguising their identity to get around robots.txt files and firewalls. Robots.txt is a simple file websites host that lets web crawlers know if they can scrape a websites' content or not. Perplexity's official web crawling bots are "PerplexityBot" and "Perplexity-Us

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One of the biggest newsletter platforms now syndicates to Bluesky and Mastodon

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-14 08:17:52

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Newsletter platform Ghost now lets publishers syndicate their posts across social web platforms like Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon. With Ghost’s free social web syndication feature, which is built on top of the ActivityPub protocol, “just as people can visit your Ghost website in any bro

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This Month in Ladybird

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 03:34:25

Hello friends! July is done. We merged 319 pull requests from 47 contributors. Ladybird is entirely funded by the generous support of companies and individuals who believe in the open web. This month, we’re excited to welcome the following new sponsors: Scraping Fish with $5,000 Blacksmith with high-performance CI infrastructure We’re incredibly grateful for their support. If you’re interested in sponsoring the project, please contact us. Web Platform Tests (WPT) As usual, we’ve made some

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Dark patterns

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 14:17:35

What to look out for when shopping online Hidden costs Hidden costs are extra costs you only find out about towards the end of your purchase, or which are made less obvious. They include pre-selected extras you may not want and add-ons presented so you feel you have to buy them. Some hidden costs are even sneakier, such as a pre-selected free trial period for a service that renews automatically if you don’t cancel before it ends - charging your card for an ongoing membership. Trick questions

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NSW Fair Trading – Dark Patterns

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 20:17:35

What to look out for when shopping online Hidden costs Hidden costs are extra costs you only find out about towards the end of your purchase, or which are made less obvious. They include pre-selected extras you may not want and add-ons presented so you feel you have to buy them. Some hidden costs are even sneakier, such as a pre-selected free trial period for a service that renews automatically if you don’t cancel before it ends - charging your card for an ongoing membership. Trick questions

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Nova: A New Web Framework for Erlang

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 08:06:16

Hi Hacker News community, I'm excited to share Nova, a new web framework built for Erlang, designed to make web development in Erlang simpler, faster, and more approachable. Nova leverages Erlang's concurrency, reliability, and scalability to create a robust yet lightweight framework for building modern web applications. Key features: * Lightweight and modular: Easy to integrate with existing Erlang projects. * Built for concurrency: Harnesses Erlang's actor model for high-performance web ap

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The HTML Hobbyist (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 08:03:54

This is an extremely streamlined path to show you how easy it can be to build a website for the World Wide Web. I suggest reading the rest of the site before attempting to follow the One Page Starter instructions. I give more details about coding HTML and building websites — and more details and options about domain names, hosting, and uploading than we just went through in the One Page Starter. There are some other hosting options that you could take advantage of that are free but with some res

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Elgato's Facecam 4K is the first to support interchangeable lens filters

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-22 03:23:00

What just happened? Elgato, the German brand best known for its video streaming and game capture devices, is launching a new webcam in its Facecam line. While it's not exactly budget-friendly, the device introduces a novel feature with potentially exciting applications for video creators and YouTubers. The Facecam 4K is a premium webcam with Ultra HD recording capabilities and exclusive features you won't easily find elsewhere. According to Elgato, the new camera can capture 4K video at up to 6

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Making Libcurl Work in WebAssembly

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 03:09:27

29 Jul, 2025 TLDR: we explain how to make libcurl based applications work in webassembly without changes by tunneling all traffic over a websocket proxy. For a quick demo, check out https://github.com/r-wasm/ws-proxy Porting R to WebAssembly Webr is a port of the R language and its package ecosystem to WebAssembly. Many R packages rely on well-known C/C++ libraries to do the heavy lifting, and fortunately most of these libraries can be built with emscripten without too much trouble. However

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The HTML Hobbyist

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 02:03:54

This is an extremely streamlined path to show you how easy it can be to build a website for the World Wide Web. I suggest reading the rest of the site before attempting to follow the One Page Starter instructions. I give more details about coding HTML and building websites — and more details and options about domain names, hosting, and uploading than we just went through in the One Page Starter. There are some other hosting options that you could take advantage of that are free but with some res

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From XML to JSON to CBOR

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 17:31:12

In modern computing, data exchange is foundational to everything from web browsing to microservices and IoT devices. The ability for different systems to represent, share, and interpret structured information drives our digital world. Yet no single perfect format has emerged to meet all needs. Instead, we've seen an evolution of data interchange formats, each addressing the specific challenges and technical requirements of its time. This narrative traces three pivotal data formats: Extensible M

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK

news.ycombinator.com Mark Alexander 2025-12-21 11:44:17

WEBASSEMBLY (WASM) In order to provide both security and portability, it was decided to move away from add-ons distributed as DLL s in favour of add-ons distributed as WebAssembly modules. In order to do so without requiring a full rewrite of existing add-ons, a new platform toolset was designed for Visual Studio with the following capabilities: Direct compilation of C/C++ projects into WebAssembly (as WASM). Debugging of WebAssembly modules by attaching to the game executable. Full support

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How to get rid of AI Overviews in Google Search: 4 easy ways

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-12-26 14:42:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Do me a favor and Google something. Anything. Drawing a blank? Try, "how to clear iPhone cache." I bet, instead of getting a lineup of trusty blue links for you to click and read through (including ZDNET's own definitive guide on the subject), you're greeted by an AI-generated paragraph at the top that answers your question before you even scroll. That's Google's AI Overviews, and while it does often give you handy summaries meant to save you time, it also steers y

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Chrome Now Shows You AI-Generated Store Reviews

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-26 21:06:00

Google's Chrome web browser will now show you AI-generated reviews of stores online, using a mix of data from partners and verified users, the company said in a blog post Monday. When you click on the icon on the left of the address bar, Google will use AI to tell you what the product quality is like, customer service quality, shipping times, pricing and return metrics, all at a glance. The feature pulls data from sites such as PowerReviews, Reputation.com, TrustPilot and others. It'll also inc

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How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy

news.ycombinator.com Jim Nielsen 2025-12-27 04:41:41

Some lessons I’ve learned from experience. 1. Install Stuff Indiscriminately From npm Become totally dependent on others, that’s why they call them “dependencies” after all! Lean in to it. Once your dependencies break — and they will, time breaks all things — then you can spend lots of time and energy (which was your goal from the beginning) ripping out those dependencies and replacing them with new dependencies that will break later. Why rip them out? Because you can’t fix them. You don’t e

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Internet age verification begins rollout, and Apple is set to be dragged into it

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-29 09:52:04

The UK has become the first major country to introduce a legal requirement for internet age verification, but it affects all websites and apps worldwide. Additionally, the US has recently revived a bill very similar to the British legislation. While the law was presented as a way to prevent children accessing adult websites, the reality is very different, and we’re already seeing the privacy risks of good intentions being turned into bad legislation – with iMessage and FaceTime in the firing li

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GPT might be an information virus (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 03:23:21

Obligatory: the views and opinions expressed in this post are my own and do not represent the views and opinions of my employer. In light of all the hype going around about ChatGPT, I wanted to offer my “hot take” on what the next 2-5 years of the web look like. One aspect of the rise of generative models that isn’t getting the right amount of attention is the long-term effects on the information economy. I think that being able to automatically produce arbitrary content that is indistinguisha

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IBM Keyboard Patents

news.ycombinator.com Admiral Shark'S Keyboards 2025-12-29 03:30:27

JavaScript disabled or not supported It appears you have prevented JavaScript from running in your web browser or are using a web browser that does not support JavaScript. Admiral Shark's Keyboards presently requires JavaScript for quality-of-life features like switching between light/dark mode, navigating via title or image and copying search query links, and is necessary for the keyboard matrix simulators, keyboard property modals, interactable slideshows and image size optimisation. Please c

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Scientist Suggests Tests to See if Large Object Headed Toward Earth Could Be an Alien Spacecraft

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-28 20:45:01

Earlier this month, astronomers made a fascinating discovery: a mysterious object with interstellar origins, now dubbed 3I/ATLAS, that's hurtling toward the inner solar system at extreme speeds. As scientists race to get a better understanding of the rare visitor — it's only the third confirmed interstellar object to have ventured into our solar system — some intriguing theories have emerged. One particularly eyebrow-raising possibility beyond the mainstream suggestions of it being either a co

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Google's new Search mode puts classic results back on top - how to access it

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-30 17:16:21

Google Google's new AI-powered feature aims to help organize your search results. Web Guide organizes links into helpful categories that break down a complex topic, the company said in a blog post, Thursday. It's intended for both open-ended searches like "how to solo travel in Japan" or detailed queries in multiple sentences like, "My family is spread across multiple time zones. What are the best tools for staying connected and maintaining close relationships despite the distance?" How Web G

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My website is one binary (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 23:47:07

my website is one binary 2022-04-06 ---------------------------- a.k.a. this one weird trick that inspires me to program creatively i have struggled for years to figure out a website framework that feels good to me. i tried all of the classics, including but limited to: - ghost - hugo - jekyll - sr.ht + tarball - manual html editing i have very high and unusual standards, and none of the above felt correct to me. more importantly, none of the above excited me. i have uncovered the secret. i have

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Who has the fastest F1 website (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 03:30:54

I once spent an hour creating an F1 lights-out reaction test which went viral and was even played by F1 drivers. That sounds like a brag, and it kinda is, but now whenever I pour days or even weeks of work into something, it just seems so inefficient compared to that time I spent an hour on something that went big. Wait! You're not my therapist! Let's look at another F1 website… This is part 3 in a multi-part series looking at the loading performance of F1 websites. Not interested in F1? It sho

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Latest Tech News

Blocking LLMs from your website cuts you off from next-generation search

Coding error blamed after parts of Constitution disappear from US website

Sections on habeas corpus and nobility titles were temporarily removed from Congress' US Constitution website

Google says AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

Tavily raises $25M to connect AI agents to the web

Microsoft’s plan to fix the web with AI has already hit an embarrassing security flaw

Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it

Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company

Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again

One of the biggest newsletter platforms now syndicates to Bluesky and Mastodon

This Month in Ladybird

Dark patterns

NSW Fair Trading – Dark Patterns

Nova: A New Web Framework for Erlang

The HTML Hobbyist (2022)

Elgato's Facecam 4K is the first to support interchangeable lens filters

Making Libcurl Work in WebAssembly

The HTML Hobbyist

From XML to JSON to CBOR

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK

How to get rid of AI Overviews in Google Search: 4 easy ways

Chrome Now Shows You AI-Generated Store Reviews

How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy

Internet age verification begins rollout, and Apple is set to be dragged into it

GPT might be an information virus (2023)

IBM Keyboard Patents

Scientist Suggests Tests to See if Large Object Headed Toward Earth Could Be an Alien Spacecraft

Google's new Search mode puts classic results back on top - how to access it

My website is one binary (2022)

Who has the fastest F1 website (2021)

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