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sach90

125 karma · joined June 6, 2023

Founder of a PR media database at journofinder.com
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sach90··on Show HN: A live map of the news cycle, rebuilt hourly from embedded headlines
Surprisingly not a lot. A few $ a day in LLM costs for the labelling, small VPS, and then some proxies for the scraping.
sach90··on [dead]
If you want some feedback this is absolutely pathetic and downright egregious behaviour from you. Someone made a tool that you have ripped off in an almost exact way. AND you have the audacity to try and promote it in his twitter thread. What planet are you on where you think this is socially acceptable?

You have a PHD but zero common sense. Get in the bin.

sach90··on A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's
I do - taconomical.com
sach90··on A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's
I used Appium (selenium based app automation) to screen scrape the McDonald's app on an android phone. It was painful and got blocked once it went viral.

Couldn't figure out the security/certificate pinning in their internal API so just went with what worked.

I'll update it soon and try again at cracking the API security.

sach90··on A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's
This is my site. I need to re-run a scrape and update the prices.

McDonald's blocked my scraper when it went viral the first time