Hacker News: spiderfarmer

New comment by spiderfarmer in "European AI. A playbook to own it"

spiderfarmer — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:19:15 +0000

Mistral is the only AI bot I haven’t blocked from my server.

New comment by spiderfarmer in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

spiderfarmer — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:30:42 +0000

I mostly use Laravel in my projects. Laravel Boost and the PAO package by Nuno Maduro are awesome. One makes it use make commands for example, the other reduces output for tests and errors.

New comment by spiderfarmer in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

spiderfarmer — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:29:19 +0000

That’s why I switched to Codex. It’s so much more generous and in my experience, just as good. Also, optimizing your setup for working with agents can easily make a 5x difference.

New comment by spiderfarmer in "The Miller Principle (2007)"

spiderfarmer — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:24:19 +0000

The Laravel documentation is GREAT when you're getting started. Every chapter starts by answering the very question you might ask yourself if you're going through it top to bottom.

I'm a one-man-band so if I write code comments, I write them for future me because up to this point he has been very grateful. Creating API documentation is also easy if you can generate it based on the comments in your code.

Maybe rename it the Filler principle. Nobody reads mindless comments that are 'filler'.

New comment by spiderfarmer in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

spiderfarmer — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:20:05 +0000

Needs a filter to see how much they paid to Trump.

New comment by spiderfarmer in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

spiderfarmer — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:00:24 +0000

And Intel cannot exist without foreign talent.

It’s almost like globalism is not so bad as long as your companies pay their taxes.

New comment by spiderfarmer in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

spiderfarmer — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:43:07 +0000

Steps are being taken. This week two big announcements in The Netherlands as well, one for a replacement to AWS and one for taking US tech out of state secrets, which weirdly enough wasn’t already a thing.

New comment by spiderfarmer in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

spiderfarmer — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:12:14 +0000

Or that he tracks me, which would be creepy

New comment by spiderfarmer in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

spiderfarmer — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:00:43 +0000

Being dependent on US tech feels the same as when we were dependent on Russian energy: strategically unwise and avoidable. We have alternatives, they just need work.

New comment by spiderfarmer in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

spiderfarmer — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:20:12 +0000

Still working on my two decades old forum. Still going strong. https://www.tractorfan.app

New comment by spiderfarmer in "Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?"

spiderfarmer — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:54:39 +0000

It's only hard to tell if you rely on the US billionaire controlled media.

New comment by spiderfarmer in "Claude Managed Agents"

spiderfarmer — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:37:31 +0000

Your vision on the market for this is skewed by the fact that you're probably overpaid.

New comment by spiderfarmer in "Claude Managed Agents"

spiderfarmer — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:18:35 +0000

I cloned a product today that does the 20% of a product my client needed. It took 8 hours and will save my client 2k a month in licensing fees. Plus, I can now add the features they were missing in the original product.

There's a lot of money to be made in small business automation right now.

New comment by spiderfarmer in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

spiderfarmer — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:39:26 +0000

Next to the massive amounts of energy they are burning in their own datacenters, they are burning up other datacenters as well. Plus all the extra energy used by every router, hub and switch in between.

New comment by spiderfarmer in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

spiderfarmer — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:24:32 +0000

I'm popular in Europe, there's no reason people from Singapore, Russia, Brazil and literally every other country in the world to all start visiting very old articles and permalinks for comments en masse.

Having honeypot links is the only thing that helps, but I'm running into massive IP tables, slowing things down.

This is not what I want to do with my time. I can't afford the expensive specialised tools. I'm just a solo entrepreneur on a shoestring budget. I just want to improve the website for my 3k real users and 10k real daily guests, not for bots.

New comment by spiderfarmer in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

spiderfarmer — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:17:09 +0000

Many are using residential proxies now. It's impossible to block them. Not even Google Analytics succeeds. People are sitting on reports thinking their website is suddenly very popular, but it's all random ips, from random locations across the world requesting 1 page at a time, at random times of the day.

New comment by spiderfarmer in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

spiderfarmer — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:21:51 +0000

I have 6M pages across 8 domains. I have 10 unique IP residential bots per second working hard to scrape every single page.

New comment by spiderfarmer in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

spiderfarmer — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:19:44 +0000

They work because they offer ways to opt out, they honor crawl delay, setting ideal scraping times, IndexNow, etc.

And they give you real, valuable traffic in return.

New comment by spiderfarmer in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

spiderfarmer — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:17:25 +0000

I have added a DB replica server just to keep my website from succumbing to AI bot traffic.

New comment by spiderfarmer in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

spiderfarmer — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:16:13 +0000

A small part. On my server AI bots outnumber real visitors 300 to one.