Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me(boston.conman.org)

526 points by classichasclass 1 year ago | 392 comments

A Boston Diaries blog post complaining about the Thinkbot AI web crawler, which ignores robots.txt and asks to be blocked by IP across 74 addresses from 41 network blocks.

Gmail might partially be to blame for receiving emails from other Sean Conners(boston.conman.org)

26 points by dmarto 2 months ago | 32 comments

Netscape News Feed Straight Out of the Late 00s(isp.netscape.com)

85 points by mistyvales 7 months ago | 18 comments

Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO(danluu.com)

326 points by greggyb 2 years ago | 617 comments

Dan Luu essay arguing Steve Ballmer was an underrated Microsoft CEO whose long-term bets and groundwork set up Satya Nadella's later success.

Microsoft Is Dead[2007](paulgraham.com)

62 points by rolph 2 years ago | 98 comments

'An incurable romantic': The boy who lived a secret life in World of Warcraft(bbc.com)

16 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 9 comments