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A new write-up argues that Meta's Muse model performs remarkably well at web scraping, with developers discussing its ability to extract and structure data from web pages more effectively than expected. Readers on Hacker News are debating the finding, weighing the model's usefulness against concerns about automated data collection and labor implications.
- 2OpenAI agent traffic linked to Wikidata outage, says Wikimedia●Wikimedia Foundation comes forward as latest OpenAI agent assault victim Millions of automated requests may have contrib
The Wikimedia Foundation says a surge of automated requests, likely from OpenAI's web-crawling agents, may have contributed to a partial Wikidata outage in May. The foundation reports millions of automated requests hitting its infrastructure, straining servers and prompting renewed debate about AI companies' scraping practices and the burden they place on open, volunteer-run platforms.
- 3Guide Circulates on Setting Up SOCKS5 Proxy Servers for Automation●In the world of high-stakes automation—be it web scraping at scale, multi-account management, or... # ai # webdev # prog
Developers are sharing a technical walkthrough on setting up a SOCKS5 proxy server for automation work, covering use cases such as large-scale web scraping, multi-account management, and related engineering tasks. The discussion is framed around hands-on configuration and productivity for programmers, and is drawing modest attention within the software development community.
Repos
- feder-cr/invisible_playwright_mcp Playwright MCP server undetected by anti-bots and captchas: AI agent browses the web on anti-detect stealth Firefox, Pyt