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New comment by pera in "Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt"

pera — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:44:53 +0000

Yup, already mentioned in a comment below: the IPs are in that list.

They also show up in AbuseIPDB with multiple reports.

New comment by pera in "Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt"

pera — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:47:57 +0000

Yeah it's not just Amazon, but so far Amazon was the only one specifically looking for URLs in source code. Interestingly it ignored URLs in the fake markdown docs.

Another detail: the scraper did not attempt to access the endpoints immediately (as it did for hrefs in htmls) but it did it on the day after, twice.

New comment by pera in "Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt"

pera — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:40:54 +0000

Thanks, the Amazonbot IPs that accessed my honeypot are in this other list:

https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/searchbot-ip-addresse...

By the way, they used false user-agents.

New comment by pera in "Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt"

pera — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:15:58 +0000

My concern is more in relation to trying to use an endpoint from non-public source code, it seems negligent to randomly try endpoints like this

Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt

pera — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:04:43 +0000

At the beginning of the year I decided to set up a scraping and LLM honeypot on one of my personal websites which included a fake git repo with code containing fake HTTP endpoints. The address to this repo was hidden in a public page inside a comment.

About three weeks ago IP addresses from Amazon Searchbot attempted to make requests to the fake endpoints included inside a shell script.

My robots.txt explicitly includes Amazonbot.

I am honestly surprised that this is coming from Amazon. Is this kind of behavior legal?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137359

Points: 18

# Comments: 14

New comment by pera in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

pera — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:18:54 +0000

Ruled by whom? The International Court of the Northern District of California?

Georgia homeowners are being forced from their homes to power AI data centers [video]

pera — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:22:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk0HVruAWBk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996090

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by pera in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

pera — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:09:19 +0000

If you wanna look into another example search for the Abercrombie Plan in Edinburgh: it was a very ambitious urbanistic plan to "modernize" this city. For instance they proposed to demolish all of the historical Georgian and Victorian buildings in Princes Street and replace them with brutalist buildings and a motorway.

New comment by pera in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

pera — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:49:06 +0000

In the mid 20th century some people believed urban motorways were "progress" and wanted to build them everywhere, see for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama_%28New_York_World%27s...

MI5 knew agent was misogynist 'obsessed' with violence, watchdog finds

pera — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:19:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9gggjekyjo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48814639

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pera in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

pera — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:34:40 +0000

Maybe I am missing your point but "Textbooks are all you need" distilled from GPT-3.5

New comment by pera in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

pera — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:52:50 +0000

Sorry but your argument doesn't seem coherent: How is the cost of RL relevant here?

It would also help if you could substantiate your initial claim (i.e. "internet training data is not where frontier capabilities come from")

New comment by pera in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

pera — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:34:51 +0000

> Using them was allowed as fair use

That is only relevant in the US, and even there it is still not clear-cut whether the fair use doctrine applies on all these scenarios. Outside of the US the situation is also quite different: for example take a look at the recent ruling on GEMA vs OpenAI in Germany.

The reality is that the copyright issue with generative AI is very complex and reaching anything resembling a conclusion will take much more than a few opinion paragraphs from an American district judge.

New comment by pera in "SpaceX Drops 14% in One Day, Price Now Below IPO Launch"

pera — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:20:18 +0000

-16.5% at the moment... Is the market reacting to the $20B bond offering news?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/spacex-ki...

AI and tech are trying to influence the midterm elections

pera — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:03:37 +0000

Article URL: https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5856359

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635327

Points: 20

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AI data centre would be 'one of Scotland's top polluters' if plans greenlit

pera — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:50:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thenational.scot/news/26205897.larbert-ai-data-centre-become-top-10-polluter/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588147

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by pera in "Midjourney Medical"

pera — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:15:24 +0000

> Today we're gonna announce something a little weird and a little crazy, but also spectacular and filled with hope.

Why is that almost every LLM generated article sounds like a LinkedIn motivational post?

(this is not a rhetorical question, I would really like to know why, from all the writing styles, this is the most prevalent one)

SpaceX Set to Overtake Amazon in Value as It Soars for Third Day

pera — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:03:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-16/spacex-spcx-stock-set-for-more-than-50-jump-in-just-three-sessions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557381

Points: 21

# Comments: 13

Around 200 Stanford students walk out as Google CEO takes stage

pera — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:34:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/sundar-pichai-stanford-commencement-22304888.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48545260

Points: 139

# Comments: 32

New comment by pera in "Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight"

pera — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:54:29 +0000

Kissing the ring also helps - I won't be surprised if Anthropic's next model goes full MAGA