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SHOW HN: I built the fastest PHP webserver in the world
A decade-old question about PHP's performance ceiling has a new answer. EGreg, a long-time PHP developer, released Qbix Webserver 1.2, a full web server written in pure PHP that claims to outperform not just php-fpm but also async...
Ask HN: The amount of AI bot traffic is out control?
A web developer managing a site with roughly 50,000 statically generated public pages posted a plea to Hacker News this week, describing a bot traffic problem that has spiraled beyond anything they have dealt with before. The post...
Prosecutors allege man used AI to scrape court website
ChatGPT Conversations Become Prosecution Evidence in Australian Court Case A Sydney man charged over a large-scale data breach of a NSW courts website allegedly used ChatGPT to build the scraping tool that carried out the access,...
TLS fingerprinting: How Cloudflare spots your scraper before the HTTP request
A website can tell whether your request comes from Chrome, Node.js, or curl before it reads a single HTTP header. The identification happens during the TLS handshake, the encrypted connection setup that precedes any application da...
Cloudflare hid my site from AI. I sell AI visibility
A developer who sells AI visibility services to local businesses discovered that his own website, and 36 demo pages he had been sending to prospects, were invisible to every major AI assistant. The culprit was not a deliberate con...
Show HN: Web Scraping and Crawling – FetchRelay
FetchRelay is a web data workspace that aims to simplify the process of extracting content from websites, collecting structured product fields, and crawling entire sites. The service provides an API-first approach, letting develop...