Hacker News: CodeBytes

New comment by CodeBytes in "LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet"

CodeBytes — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:28:26 +0000

It likely is AI scrapers essentially doing a DDoS. They use separate IPs (and vary the UA) to prevent blocking.

I have a site which is currently being hit (over 10k requests today) and it looks like scrapers as every URL is different. If it was a DDoS, they would target costly pages like my search not every single URL.

SQLite had the same thing: https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/7d3eb059f81ff694 As have a few other open source repositories. It looks like badly written crawlers trying to crawl sites as fast as possible.

New comment by CodeBytes in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

CodeBytes — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:47:50 +0000

Unless Trump wants to start WW3 the US won't be able to do anything, and even if he did start WW3, Europe would be able to destroy those bases.

The whole point of them was to give the US influence while improving US security. Given Europe can't trust Trump will come to their aid, they won't give the US as much influence over Europe.

New comment by CodeBytes in "Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits"

CodeBytes — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 19:13:19 +0000

The Lemmy homelab community is up to 1.67k subscribers (https://lemmy.ml/c/homelab) so while people may not be joining a specific homelab instance, they are creating accounts somewhere and joining the community.

Having said that, it doesn't seem very active at the moment which isn't a good sign. Granted, I have no idea how active the subreddit is to compare.

New comment by CodeBytes in "Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits"

CodeBytes — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 18:38:39 +0000

The selfhosted community on Lemmy (https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted) is up to 12.5k subscribers and seems fairly active so it's possible there might be enough people who care this time for it to work.

New comment by CodeBytes in "Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority"

CodeBytes — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 17:33:41 +0000

That doesn't seem to be true though. There are multiple countries outside the EU that have an adequacy decisions regarding their privacy laws like: Japan, South Korea, Canada, UK, Isreal, etc. They can host EU data without issues.

The only reason the privacy shield agreement was thrown out was due to lack of safe guards from US intelligence.

Even without the privacy shield, US companies would still be able to store EU data in a country with an adequacy decision if it wasn't for the CLOUD act. This seems more to do with US law wanting access to EU data.

New comment by CodeBytes in "GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by using Google Fonts"

CodeBytes — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 04:33:40 +0000

There was a very recent case which, at least for some types of data, found Cloudflare is not adequate: https://edpb.europa.eu/news/national-news/2021/census-2021-p...

It looks like the court decided SCCs were not sufficient as Cloudflare is subject to US surveillance laws so they wouldn't be able to provide adequate guarantees.

New comment by CodeBytes in "Ask HN: Alternate Email hosting to G Suite"

CodeBytes — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:34:30 +0000

Fastmail Professional allows 80,000 inbound, 16,000 outbound per day [1].

[1]: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277382-Ac...

New comment by CodeBytes in "The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and why they died"

CodeBytes — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 15:09:02 +0000

Neat idea. What's the criteria? Just it seems to be missing Google Code. Had a look on Wikipedia and seems to be a lot missing from that too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon...