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ArcHound
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Hello, I write my blog at blog.miloslavhomer.cz
- ArcHound parentNo. The factory must grow.
- Let me describe my setup, so that you can compare. I use a Contabo VPS for around 5 USD month to host my Wagtail (django-based) site. The DB also runs on the same infra and since it's SQLite I can back it up externally.
I probably wouldn't be able to handle 0.5M requests, but I am nowhere near getting them. If I start approaching such numbers I'll consider an upgrade.
Check out Wagtail if you'd like to have even more batteries included for your site, it was a delight building my site with it:
- Hello HN!
Here's my writeup for the years 2025, 2020 and 2015 of the Advent of Code. I am also slowly building a toolset and libraries in python to tackle these problems effectively.
I also have all of the solutions and the library available at GitHub: https://github.com/ArcHound/advent_of_code
Hope you'll have a great start of 2026!
- I can agree with you. And in a discussion with adults working together to address our issues I will.
The issue is that we don't have exact proof that AI is suitable for tasks and the people doing those are already laid off.
The economy now is propped up only by the belief that AI will be so successful that it will eliminate most of the workforce. I just don't see how this ends well.
Remember, regulations are written in blood. And I think we're about to write many brand new regulations.
- To me the key point was:
> One way of looking at this is that we rediscovered that bureaucracy matters. Although some might chafe against procedures and checklists, they exist for a reason: providing a kind of institutional memory that helps employees avoid common screwups at work.
That's why we want machines in our systems - to eliminate human errors. That's why we implement strict verifiable processes - to minimize the risk of human errors when we need humans in the loop.
Having a machine making human errors is the exact opposite of what we want. How would we even fix this if the machines are trained on human input?
- Consider this situation: security review before a project go-live.
I have never seen this team before and I'll "never" see this team after the fact. They might be contracted externally, they might leave before the second review.
Let's say I can sus out people doing this. I don't have the option of giving them the benefit of the doubt and they have the motivation to trick me.
I guess I've answered my own question a bit, such an environment isn't built to foster trust at all.
- > If you know in your heart of hearts that you didn’t put the work in, you’re undermining the social contract between you and your reader.
There's been a lot of social contract undermining lately. Does anyone please know about something that can be done to try and revert back? Social contract of "F you. I got mine" isn't very appealing to me, but that seems to be the current approach.
- I'd say it's a good PoC.
They want to have many users. So they are ok with using OCR for many users. And since they are sending the accessed content through their APIs, might as well send a copy of it to training.
In conclusion, it seems that mass OCR usage is within the scope of the AI companies.
- Disagree on the method:
I recall that bot farms use pre-paid SIM cards for their data connections so that their traffic comes from a good residential ASN.
No client compromise required, it's a networking abuse that gives you good reputation of you use mobile data.
But yes, selling botnets made of compromised devices is also a thing.
- Seems like you're cooking up a solid bot detection solution. I'd recommend adding JA3/JA4+ into the mix, I had good results against dumb scrapers.
Also, have you considered Captchas for first contact/rate-limit?
If you have smart scrapers, then good luck. I recall that bot farms use pre-paid SIM cards for their data connections so that their traffic comes from a good residential ASN. They also have a lot of IPs and overall well-made headless browsers with JS support. Then it's a battle of JS quirks where the official implementation differs from headless one.
- As with all issues of power abuse, the real question is: "what are you going to do about it?"
If the answer from the workers is an overwhelming "nothing", then there's no reason to change.
And I am not blaming workers. Bills need to be paid, mouths need to be fed. Staying low and taking it might be better than speaking up and risking homelessness.
Please tell me how I am wrong, I struggle to see how the situation could improve.
- Advent is coming! Post your toolkits for AoC.
I really enjoyed not having to write/debug 2d map features from scratch every other day.
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