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A developer blog post argues that Meta's Muse model performs exceptionally well at web scraping tasks, drawing attention and discussion online. The author reports strong results using Muse to extract structured data from web pages, prompting debate about its capabilities and potential uses in automated data collection.
- 2Essay Calling AI Companies Parasites Draws Attention●AI Companies Are Parasites https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/ai-companies-are-parasites # HackerNews # Tech # AI
A new essay bluntly argues that AI companies behave like parasites, taking value from creators and the open web while giving little back. The piece is circulating among developers and tech commentators, reigniting debate over how AI firms use copyrighted and publicly available material to train their models without compensation.
- 3IP addresses remain the weak point in web scraping●In the high-stakes game of web scraping and browser automation, the IP address is your fingerprint, your reputation, and
Developers are discussing the realities of web scraping and browser automation, arguing that an IP address functions as a fingerprint, a reputation, and the biggest vulnerability in the practice. The discussion notes that even well-built scrapers with refined DOM selectors and careful handling of asynchronous race conditions can still fail once an IP address is flagged or blocked.