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I feel the pain — it’s very difficult to detect many of the less ethical scrapers. They use residential IP pools, rotate IPs, and provide valid user agents.

Some of the bots I see use residential proxies, rotate IP address, countries, as well as fire-up a real browser.

Not really surprised. I spend a ridiculous amount on time banning bots every week.

Oh and also listening to an audiobook - Mythos by Stephen Fry. Liking it so far.

I get that! I usually don’t feel that end-of-story sadness strongly enough to make me reread. For me, jumping into a new world is just too exciting, so the “leaving one behind” fee…

I mostly read science fiction and fantasy, and I’ve just started Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It follows a scientist sentenced to a prison camp on a planet teeming with bizarr…

For me, rereading just feels like missing out on the excitement of finding something new. A fresh story, a different perspective, an author I haven’t met yet. So I usually skip rer…

Reading has a higher barrier to entry than most media. Doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman—it takes time, focus, and mental energy. And unlike scrolling or streaming, books a…

I had the opposite experience with cloud run. Mysterious scale outs/restarts - I had to buy a paid subscription to cloud support to get answers and found none. Moved to self manage…

Cool. I haven't had time to go through all the examples but I plan to. This will be useful (I recently moved away from ElasticSearch and embedded Lucene in a SpringBoot app directl…

I completely agree. The joy of reading comes from discovering stories that you truly connect with—not from checking off titles on a set list. While some reading lists can be helpfu…

Is there an API or downloadable catalog of the titles? Happy to feature them on meetnewbooks.com so more readers can find them.

This happened to a team I know. They built a flashy SPA dashboard because it was easy to copy-paste from templates. It worked great—until a real-world requirement, like a data grid…

Incredibly useful, especially with React, where the Context API, state lifting, and prop drilling often feel clunky. That said, it can lead to messy code if not carefully managed.

I’m curious too. I self host on a server, no issues so far.

Thanks for getting back to me! Brave New World is actually quite popular on MeetNewBooks, and its recommendations include Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Animal Farm, and others [1]. For Hon…

Can you give me some examples of the books you’re looking for? I might have them, but sometimes I don’t have enough data to display them properly on the app/site. As for the differ…

Fanfiction recs are a whole different beast, and things can get pretty wild in fanfic! I know a few fanfics that are really popular, so I definitely get the appeal

Hi HN, Like many projects here, this started as something I built for myself. I shared it with a few friends, and it grew from there. MeetNewBooks is a book recommendation app—a "f…

An animated show might work! Will Wight's Cradle series raised over $1M on Kickstarter for an adaptation https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/author-will-wight/anima...

I have no way to verify this, I suspect these are either stealth AI companies or data collectors, who hope to sell training data to them

I see a lot of traffic I can tell are bots based on the URL patterns they access. They do not include the "bot" user agent, and often use residential IP pools. I haven't found an e…

Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith Hospital Station by James White More recent read, you may have heard of it since it won an award - In Ascension by Marti…

Check out Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

My all time favorite fantasy series is Malazan - not a light read though, and probably not a series for anyone new to fantasy. One of the few series I will read again.