It really reminds me of old Internet, when things were allowed to be fun. Not this tepid corporate-approved landscape we have now.

Same here, really. That's why I started using it. I'd seen it pop up for a moment on a few sites I'd visited, and it was so quirky and completely not disruptive that I didn't mind routing my legit users through it.

Anyone is free to replace the cat girl with an actual cat or a vintage computer logo or whatnot anyway.

My issue is that it blocks away people using browsers without javascript.

Reminds me of weird furry porn, I can't say I like it

As someone on the hosting end, Anubis has unfortunately been overused and thus scrapers, especially Huawei ones, bypass it. I've gone for go-away instead which is similar but more configurable in challenges

My experience with it is that it somehow took 20 seconds to load (site might've been hn-hugged at the time), only to "protect" some fucking static page instead of just serving that shit in the first place rather than wasting CPU on... whatever it was doing to cause delay

Yep, Anubis-chan is super cute! :)

So! Much! Scraping! They were downloading every commit multiple times, and fetching every file as seen at each of those commits, and trying to download archives of all the code, and hitting `/me/my-repo/blame` endpoints as their IP's first-ever request to my server, and other unlikely stuff.

My scraper dudes, it's a git repo. You can fetch the whole freaking thing if you wanna look at it. Of course, that would require work and context-aware processing on their end, and it's easier for them to shift the expense onto my little server and make me pay for their misbehavior.

Or some anti-ddos/bot companies using ultra cheap scraping services to annoy you enough to get you into their "free" anti bot protection, so they can charge the few real ai scrapers for access to your site.

But there is a lot of search engine development going on, it's just that the results of the new search engines are fed straight into AI instead of displayed in the legacy 10-links-per-page view.

> There must be a ton of companies with very large document collections at this point

See, I don't think there is, I don't think they want that expense. It's basically the Linus Torvalds philosophy of data storage, if it's on the Internet, I don't need a backup. While I have absolutely no proof of this, I'd guess that many AI companies just crawl the Internet constantly, never saving any of the data. We're seeing some of these scrapers go to great length attempting to circumvent any and all forms of caching, they aren't interested in having a two week old copy of anything.

I like this better than of NSFW links; just include a (possible LLM generated) paragraph about not supporting transitions in minor children. Or perhaps that libraries that remove instructional booklets for how to have same-sex intercourse aren't actually banning the books.

That sort of thing; nothing that 80% of people object to (so there's no problem if someone actually sees it), but something that definitely triggers the filters.

Ohai! I'm working on dataset poisoning. The early prototype generates vapid LinkedIn posts but future versions will be fully pluggable with WebAssembly.

what do people use to get keyword alerts in HN?

Correct; my bad!

And hey, Xena! (And thank you very much!)

I checked Xe's profile when I hadn't seen them post here for a while. According to that, they're not really using HN anymore.

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Which cartoon are you referring to? The version of Anubis I installed only has the G-rated default images.