bodantogat

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by bodantogat 8mo ago
I feel the pain — it’s very difficult to detect many of the less ethical scrapers. They use residential IP pools, rotate IPs, and provide valid user agents.
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by bodantogat 11mo ago
Some of the bots I see use residential proxies, rotate IP address, countries, as well as fire-up a real browser.
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by bodantogat 11mo ago
Not really surprised. I spend a ridiculous amount on time banning bots every week.
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by bodantogat 1y ago
Oh and also listening to an audiobook - Mythos by Stephen Fry. Liking it so far.
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by bodantogat 1y ago
I get that! I usually don’t feel that end-of-story sadness strongly enough to make me reread. For me, jumping into a new world is just too exciting, so the “leaving one behind” feeling doesn’t stick around too long.
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by bodantogat 1y ago
I mostly read science fiction and fantasy, and I’ve just started Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It follows a scientist sentenced to a prison camp on a planet teeming with bizarre lifeforms. So far, it hasn’t drawn me in the way Children
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by bodantogat 1y ago
For me, rereading just feels like missing out on the excitement of finding something new. A fresh story, a different perspective, an author I haven’t met yet. So I usually skip rereads and pick up something new instead.
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by bodantogat 1y ago
Reading has a higher barrier to entry than most media. Doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman—it takes time, focus, and mental energy. And unlike scrolling or streaming, books aren’t always cheap. A new paperback can be $18–$30, and that
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by bodantogat 1y ago
I had the opposite experience with cloud run. Mysterious scale outs/restarts - I had to buy a paid subscription to cloud support to get answers and found none. Moved to self managed VMs. Maybe things have changed now.
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by bodantogat 1y ago
Cool. I haven't had time to go through all the examples but I plan to. This will be useful (I recently moved away from ElasticSearch and embedded Lucene in a SpringBoot app directly)
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by bodantogat 1y ago
I completely agree. The joy of reading comes from discovering stories that you truly connect with—not from checking off titles on a set list. While some reading lists can be helpful for inspiration, I find the “100 books you must read” type
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by bodantogat 1y ago
Is there an API or downloadable catalog of the titles? Happy to feature them on meetnewbooks.com so more readers can find them.
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by bodantogat 1y ago
This happened to a team I know. They built a flashy SPA dashboard because it was easy to copy-paste from templates. It worked great—until a real-world requirement, like a data grid, came along.
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by bodantogat 1y ago
Incredibly useful, especially with React, where the Context API, state lifting, and prop drilling often feel clunky. That said, it can lead to messy code if not carefully managed.
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by bodantogat 1y ago
I’m curious too. I self host on a server, no issues so far.
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by bodantogat 2y ago
Thanks for getting back to me! Brave New World is actually quite popular on MeetNewBooks, and its recommendations include Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Animal Farm, and others [1]. For Honoré de Balzac, I do have several of his works, including Pèr
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by bodantogat 2y ago
Can you give me some examples of the books you’re looking for? I might have them, but sometimes I don’t have enough data to display them properly on the app/site. As for the differences—MeetNewBooks is a recommendations-first app rathe
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by bodantogat 2y ago
Fanfiction recs are a whole different beast, and things can get pretty wild in fanfic! I know a few fanfics that are really popular, so I definitely get the appeal
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Show HN: MeetNewBooks – Book recommendations for those who read for fun(meetnewbooks.com)
1 points by bodantogat 2y ago|6 comments
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by bodantogat 2y ago
An animated show might work! Will Wight's Cradle series raised over $1M on Kickstarter for an adaptation https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/author-will-wight/anima...
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by bodantogat 2y ago
I have no way to verify this, I suspect these are either stealth AI companies or data collectors, who hope to sell training data to them
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by bodantogat 2y ago
I see a lot of traffic I can tell are bots based on the URL patterns they access. They do not include the "bot" user agent, and often use residential IP pools. I haven't found an easy way to block them. They nearly took out m
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by bodantogat 2y ago
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith Hospital Station by James White More recent read, you may have heard of it since it won an award - In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
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by bodantogat 2y ago
Check out Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
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by bodantogat 2y ago
My all time favorite fantasy series is Malazan - not a light read though, and probably not a series for anyone new to fantasy. One of the few series I will read again.
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by bodantogat 2y ago
How tough is it to market an extension? I’m thinking about building one as an extra feature for my app or service, but I’ve been holding back because I think it might be hard to get it in front of my target audience
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by bodantogat 2y ago
Nice explanation. One use case where keywords haven't worked well for me , and (at least at first glance) vectors are doing better are longer passages -- finding sentences that are similar rather than just words.
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by bodantogat 2y ago
This sounds useful (I do a lot of throw-away text analysis on my laptop)
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by bodantogat 2y ago
I'm much older and have been through similar symptoms, and 3 surgeries ( shoulder, knee). I know you said your health insurance is not great- but if possible find a doctor specializing in Sports Medicine if your primary care physician
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by bodantogat 2y ago
I clicked on the link at the top for the designer "Lynn Fisher", it took me to https://lynnandtonic.com/ and I discovered something by chance. I had my Chrome window open with the dev tools and was resizing it, an

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