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New comment by mynameyeff in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"

mynameyeff — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:44:47 +0000

Interesting!

New comment by mynameyeff in "Show HN: Detect anti-bot, anti-agent defenses for any website"

mynameyeff — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:34:31 +0000

I was building a browser automation for a website, and kept hitting these unexplainable roadblocks where my requests would yield different responses. I wanted to know why and wrote a basic script that was able to detect that the website was using geolocation block (e.g., "You can't view this content in your country") and my browser automation was egressing from an edge function on a server in a Baltic country.

Once I was able to make this mental connection, I tweaked my browser automation so that for that particular web property I would use a USA-based IP address. After making this fix, the browser automation was able to run successfully!

I think there may be other uses for BotScope, but that's how I started going down this road. Thx for asking!

New comment by mynameyeff in "Show HN: Detect anti-bot, anti-agent defenses for any website"

mynameyeff — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:26:36 +0000

Yea, a few actually.

Azure Front Door, ModSecurity, Fastly Next-Gen WAF to name a few.

New comment by mynameyeff in "Show HN: Detect anti-bot, anti-agent defenses for any website"

mynameyeff — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:27:01 +0000

I built a platform to detect any kind of anti-bot / anti-agent tooling that’s installed on a website. Cloudflare Bot Manager has the lion's share of the market but there are a litany of other ones offered by Akamai, Vercel, Amazon, and DataDome that have significant representation too.

In total, there's about 30+ different products that BotScope can detect. The entire catalog is here: https://botscope.org/abaam

A few technical details you might find interesting:

- Scans are full browser webpage loads. Not just `curl` requests.

- Scans are executed from datacenter IP addresses to closely mimic automated bot/agent webpage access.

- There isn't any kind of pentesting or destructive stuff happening... just pure recon!

- The product has API keys, and a hosted MCP server so scans can fit into agent/CI/internal-tool workflows too (I realize how meta this is).

Curious for your thoughts & feedback!

Show HN: Detect anti-bot, anti-agent defenses for any website

mynameyeff — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:25:44 +0000

Article URL: https://botscope.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293994

Points: 4

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New comment by mynameyeff in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

mynameyeff — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:06:39 +0000

MSNBC commentators today said some things today that were so horrendous.

New comment by mynameyeff in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

mynameyeff — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:05:21 +0000

Indeed.

New comment by mynameyeff in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

mynameyeff — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:03:29 +0000

Charlie Kirk never really presented him this way but he was the founder & head of one of the largest think-tanks that is up there with Heritage Foundation. TPUSA was responsible for translating conservative values to Gen-Z/YA who were an all-but-forgotten demographic by mainstream GOP.

New comment by mynameyeff in "Defense.gov Now Redirects to War.gov"

mynameyeff — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:32:40 +0000

Precisely, it is Orwellian to attempt to misdirect people using language.

Show HN: I built a tool to browse X Community Notes

mynameyeff — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:51:08 +0000

Article URL: https://community-notes.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43437105

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by mynameyeff in "Show HN: I built an app to get daily wisdom from Mr. Worldwide"

mynameyeff — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:09:41 +0000

Who’s Dale??

New comment by mynameyeff in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

mynameyeff — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:08:40 +0000

Yikes... looks like Apple sun is setting. This cannot be allowed to happen.

New comment by mynameyeff in "Ask HN: Is Godaddy Running a Scam?"

mynameyeff — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:35:44 +0000

Dark patterns abound. Maybe not a scam, but some deal of white collar fraud.

New comment by mynameyeff in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

mynameyeff — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:48:22 +0000

I mean, these "kids" are rockstars. Why are they being juvenilized by the Wired writer?

New comment by mynameyeff in "Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported"

mynameyeff — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:57:18 +0000

The crypto part isn’t something you turn off. It’s buried in a menu somewhere. For all intents and purposes, it’s a pretty elegant UX.

New comment by mynameyeff in "Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported"

mynameyeff — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 14:08:17 +0000

What are your qualms with Brave Browser?

New comment by mynameyeff in "Merry Christmas Everyone"

mynameyeff — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:54:54 +0000

If you enjoy high-end scotch, you're a good person in my book.

New comment by mynameyeff in "Internet Archive: Security breach alert"

mynameyeff — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 12:33:44 +0000

huh i thought everyone already knew this

New comment by mynameyeff in "Sq.io: jq for databases and more"

mynameyeff — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:48:01 +0000

Wow, very cool. I was looking for something like this

New comment by mynameyeff in "Show HN: FastIndex, an open-source search engine indexation tool"

mynameyeff — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:17:13 +0000

Pretty rad! Thx!