GoKawiil - Tech News

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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After weeks of listening to these Fender headphones, I'm still wondering who should buy them (zdnet.com)

2026-02-27 | by Jada Jones | get Fender Headphones → | tags: fender mix, fender headphones, skyscraper black

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Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake. (technologyreview.com)

2026-02-16 | by Kim Zetter | tags: enforcement, law enforcement, nixon

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End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-11 | by Gerd Hoffmann | get GitHub → | tags: ai scrapers, blog, cgit

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Spotify Disables Accounts After Open-Source Group Scrapes 86 Million Songs From Platform (slashdot.org)

2025-12-24 | get Music Library → | tags: anna archive, archive, music

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Aggressive bots ruined my weekend (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Amazon Echo Dot → | tags: bots, requests, scrape

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“Bouncing” winds damaged Houston skyscrapers in 2024 (arstechnica.com)

2025-10-31 | get Amazon Echo Show → | tags: damage, hurricane, meters