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Blocking the curl useragent can obviously be worked around, but is probably a net good. This isn’t a conspiracy, HN would be getting spammed by crawlers but they won’t care about legitimate users.
Why are they blocking login on links, lynx, etc, user agents then? Those are not curl user agents. And I did post this message because I am "techy" enough to know how to fake my user agent string, but normal people using noscritp/basic HTML will be bluntly blocked. And AI BOTs are certainly using 'whatwg cartel' web engines now. So this fit more than anythiing else 'whatwg cartel' agenda perfectly... how f-ing conven…
Is this really what upsets you? Seems very trivial. HN would almost certainly block user agents due to abuse, not because they're an evil corporation. Cheer up and work around it.