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operatingthetantoday at 3:28 AM1 replyview on HN

They are trying to stop scraping, I guess.


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spaqintoday at 4:08 AM

Scrapers won't be stopped by needing an account; in the recent discussion [0] about this, someone mentioned that there's even a JSON API you can use - by appending .json to any post! It's to drive engagement... for the advertisers. They gotta keep the valuation up after the IPO.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015533

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