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Is it ok if I try to write a script to uncheck all the boxes? I don’t want to spam your server and ruin it for everyone if there’s no rate limiting. (I wince m
by sillysaurusx 2y ago
Is it ok if I try to write a script to uncheck all the boxes? I don’t want to spam your server and ruin it for everyone if there’s no rate limiting.
(I wince mentioning this publicly; still have flashback trauma from when some HNer wrote a script to download as much data as possible from our Firebase and got a $1k bill overnight.)
- LorenDB 2y agoStop that script, I'm watching you ruin the board!
- sillysaurusx 2y agoI haven’t opened my laptop yet. But it’s inevitable someone will write one.
- grog454 2y agoEither there's some kind of update batching or it's already happening.
- eieio 2y agoHi! Sorry it took me a bit to get to this, I've been hacking to keep the server up for the last several hours. Lots of people are botting, I don't think there's anything wrong if you bot too. There's a tiny bit of client-side rate limiting and originally i had server side rate limiting too, but I got rid of that a while ago (I was cutting anything I could to speed things up).
- montag 2y agoHaha. Cutting rate limiting to speed things up
- eieio 2y agoalright yes this sounds funny now but at the time my rate-limiting implementation was very slow!
- eieio 2y ago(it's back in and faster now)
- throwaway14356 2y agothe worse thing is already happening
- yard2010 2y agoOh my god that sounds like my worst nightmare.. this is why I'm scared to death with these pay as you solutions