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I Built a Bulletproof Web Scraper That Hasn't Been Blocked in 6 Months — Here's Every Trick I Use

Every web scraper tutorial shows you requests.get() and BeautifulSoup. Then you run it against a real website and get a 403 Forbidden. Or a CAPTCHA. Or your IP gets banned after 50 requests. I've been running production scrapers for clients for over a year. The one I'm sharing here has scraped over...

Vasquez MyGuy 6 hours ago

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The Largest SQL Injection Breach Ever — How 77 Million PSN Accounts Were Exposed published

⚠️ Educational content only — this article is for cybersecurity awareness and defensive learning. 💥 The Largest SQL Injection Attack Ever Recorded# 💥 The Largest SQL Injection Attack Ever Recorded 🎮 The PlayStation Network Breach (2011) In April 2011, Sony’s PlayStation...

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Hacker News · Technology

Amiga Graphics

Article URL: https://amiga.lychesis.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813566 Points: 28 # Comments: 0

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The Guardian · World

Middle East crisis live: Iran warns it will close strait of Hormuz if US blockade continues

Iranian parliamentary speaker also says passage through waterway will depend on Iranian authorisation and accuses Donald Trump of multiple falsehoodsIran says strait of Hormuz ‘completely open’ to commercial vessels as oil prices fallPakistan’s army chief has concluded a three-day visit to Iran, a m...

Adam Fulton 6 hours ago

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I Stopped Taking AI Advice Seriously, and It Helped

I’ve been using AI for months now. Not casually — seriously. And I’ve started noticing something uncomfortable. The Observation The more I used AI for advice, the more confident it sounded. Clean answers. Well-structured thinking. Convincing logic. Whether it was: business decisions content st...

Jaideep Parashar 6 hours ago

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Why Solo Developers Should Embrace Docker Containers: The Ultimate Tool for Independence

There is a specific moment in every solo developer's career that feels like a victory, but also a source of deep frustration. It is the moment you finally get your local environment working. You have installed the right version of Node.js, configured the database connection strings, set up the envir...

Matthew Gladding 6 hours ago

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I Built a Simple CLI to Check Plagiarism and AI-Generated Text (Locally)

Most tools for checking plagiarism or AI-generated content share a few drawbacks: they require uploading your text to a website they are often paywalled or rate-limited they lack transparency in how results are generated I ran into this problem a few times and wanted a simpler alternative I coul...

Jerome Thayananthajothy 6 hours ago

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Amazon ECR Pull Through Cache (PTC)

What is ECR Pull Through Cache? Normally, to use an external image in the private environmet, we have to manually download the image and push it to ECR. With Pull Through Cache, we can simply pull the image using our ECR URL. AWS ECR automatically fetches the images from the upstream regi...

Harsh Viradia 6 hours ago

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I built nftguard: atomic nftables versioning with instant rollback

I manage multiple Linux servers. Each one has its own nftables firewall config — some with 50 rules, some with 200+. And for years, my "versioning system" was a mix of .bak files, commented-out lines, and the vague hope that I'd remember what changed last Tuesday. Then one night I fat-fingered a fl...

CARLOS ENRIQUE CASTRO LAZARO 6 hours ago

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BBC News · World

Oil prices plunge as Iran says Strait of Hormuz 'open' during ceasefire

Brent crude sinks by a tenth after Iran says the key waterway is open for commercial ships for the rest of the ceasefire.

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I spent 500 hours & $5,000 on OpenClaw - Here's the best setup guide you'll ever need.

This is a submission for the OpenClaw Writing Challenge 'i spent 90 hours & $800 setting up openclaw so you don't have to.' half of it is already wrong or banned. the install process changed. anthropic killed subscription access for third-party tools. new models dropped. the whole landscape...

AI Bug Slayer 🐞 7 hours ago

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The Guardian · World

Green MP: Labour caricatures working-class people over greyhound racing

Hannah Spencer says minister ‘continuously offends people by saying working-class people don’t care about dogs’Labour is “offensively caricaturing” working-class people by saying they do not want a greyhound racing ban in England, the Green party MP Hannah Spencer has said.The sport has traditionall...

Helena Horton 7 hours ago

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The Guardian · World

Winners and judges out of pocket as £20,000 writing awards appear to have closed

The Plaza Prizes offered 10 awards in 2025 but some judges say they were not paid, while a number of winners hit back over AI accusationsA competition for new writers that promised a £20,000 prize fund appears to have shut down, leaving winners and judges, including a Booker prize-winning novelist,...

Shane Hickey 7 hours ago

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Building the Full Website Around the Product

Building the Full Website Around the Product A web app is one thing. A full website is another. Once the core product worked, I needed the rest of the experience to feel like a real product, not a prototype that escaped the lab. That meant building the site around the app itself: a cl...

Harshal Rudra 7 hours ago

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It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths

Article URL: https://runxiyu.org/comp/doubleslash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813454 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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TechCrunch · Technology

Once close enough for an acquisition, Stripe and Airwallex are now going after each other

For most of its life, Airwallex and Stripe have mostly operated in different geographies, selling to different buyers. That's changing.

Connie Loizos 7 hours ago

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E-Waste Aware — Sanitise First, Then Recycle 🌏

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Earth Day Edition What I Built E-Waste Aware is a Flask web app that guides you through the responsible disposal of old tech — before it ends up in landfill leaching lead, mercury, and cadmium into the soil for decades. The tool has two parts...

ShadowStrike 7 hours ago

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Hidden Answers in Plain Sight: A CLI to Ask the Earth

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Earth Day Edition 🌍 What I Built I built a small command-line experiment called earth-oracle. You ask the Earth a question… and it answers. But not in the way you might expect. Instead of generating answers, the oracle reveals something mor...

crevilla2050 7 hours ago

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BBC News · World

'My partner died a hero saving our daughter's life'

Chris Tuczemskyi says his daughter Autumn is still alive because of her late mother's heroics.

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BBC News · World

My partner died a hero saving our daughter's life

Chris Tuczemskyi says his daughter Autumn is still alive because of her late mother's heroics.

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DEV Community · Technology

Techn0tz Turns 1 — Help Shape What’s Next

Techn0tz turns 1 🎉 It started as a simple space to document learning. Over time, it evolved into building real applications in Rust — focusing on how things work, not just how to write them. The next phase moves toward deeper features and more structured learning. To make this more useful, a qu...

manjushaps 7 hours ago

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AWS Data & AI Stories #02: Amazon Bedrock Data Automation

In the first article, I talked about multimodal AI at a high level. Now it is time to go one step deeper. When we say multimodal AI, one of the first real challenges is not the model itself. The first challenge is the data. In most environments, the input is messy, unstructured, and spread across...

Sedat SALMAN 8 hours ago

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BBC News · World

Swinney predicts SNP majority at Holyrood election

The first minister has told BBC News that his party will return at least 65 seats at next month's vote.

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BBC News · World

Swinney predicts SNP majority at Holyrood election

The first minister has told BBC News that his party will return at least 65 seats at next month's vote.

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