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Post by inigyou » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC

ButlerianJihad wrote: post #111

inigyou wrote: post #109

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> 403. That’s an error. > Your client does not have permission to get URL /search/docs/essentials/spam-policies from this server. That’s all we know. What a utopia.

You keep reporting "403 Forbidden" errors from disparate websites but especially Google, and these are errors that other HN users are not having. I do not believe that this is an accident. I suggest that you consider this is a "you problem", inigyou, and not the webmaster's fault. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194606 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145010…

Post by zeratax » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 10:41 AM UTC

inigyou wrote: post #112

ButlerianJihad wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You keep reporting "403 Forbidden" errors from disparate websites but especially Google, and these are errors that other HN users are not having. I do not believe that this is an accident. I suggest that you consider this is a "you problem", inigyou, and not the webmaster's fault. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194606 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145010…

Maybe an awful lot of websites have extremely broad blocklists and I want to raise awareness to this fact and shame anyone else who's thinking of implementing an extremely broad blocklist.

Post by skeledrew » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 12:08 PM UTC

zeratax wrote: post #113

skeledrew wrote: post #22

Probably trying to take advantage of the cross session memory feature some LLM providers are increasingly integrating. Enough "suggestions" and it becomes a "fact" in that memory, and one day a user makes a somewhat relevant query and the model will be pushing those accumulated "facts" to said user.

does that actually work though? if i look through the memory claude has written it's all just things i've said, never anything retrieved from a web search and especially not anything that wasn't explicitly relevant to what i was talking about.