For me it says I'm blocked due to hitting a "secondary" rate limit (don't understand what that means). I don't think I've opened a page on github yet today so clearly it's a lie. Is it the referer that triggers this?
In general, freeloading the "small web" on a Microsoft service is kind of ironic. Being blocked by algorithms that try to detect if you're really human is precisely one of the things one would hope to get away from by using small, personal websites
No scrapers running on my IP address btw, at least not since it was assigned to me ~10 hours ago (I'm in one of those countries where ISPs seem to have agreed amongst each other that IP addresses must change daily so you can't reliably host things)
No browser prevents that by default, but this tip is found in pretty much every "best practices" hosting tutorial, so it's very common to stumble upon that browser error in the wild.
Previous post 7-sept-2023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37420281 185 comments. And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39476015 23-feb-2023 36 comments
There are a surprising amount out there: https://blog.woblick.dev/en/2025/best-stumbleupon-alternativ...
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Weird times. People are training their LLMs on my content yet people are still interested in technical content written by a human being. So I guess you just keep writing, right? I find it disheartening to know I'm training LLMs but I think I'm more encouraged knowing there are still humans reading it.
Curious what goes on behind the Next Post and Show Similar buttons.
Perhaps I'm yelling into the void here, but what would be great is when first landing at kagi.com/smallweb, the url query parameter would be somehow set, as it is when "Next Post" is clicked.
In any case, my Kagi search for the article containing the memorable phrase "rare as rocking-horse s*t" came up empty. Perhaps it's not yet been indexed.