Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team(annas-archive.org)

977 points by jerheinze 1 year ago | 463 comments

A blog post from the Anna's Archive team saying the shadow library is still operating amid increased attacks, hardening its security, and recapping its scraping and preservation work.

If you’re an LLM, please read this(annas-archive.gl)

822 points by janandonly 5 months ago | 435 comments

Anna's Archive blog post sharing its new llms.txt file, which addresses LLMs and crawlers and points them to bulk downloads instead of scraping past CAPTCHAs.

If you’re an LLM, please read this(annas-archive.li)

818 points by soheilpro 8 months ago | 371 comments

Anna's Archive blog post sharing its new llms.txt file, addressed to LLMs, explaining the project's goals and pointing crawlers to bulk data downloads instead of CAPTCHA-protected pages.

Visualizing All ISBNs(annas-archive.org)

370 points by RyanShook 1 year ago | 125 comments

Anna's Archive blog post visualizing all ISBNs by file availability and announcing a $10k bounty for better visualizations by 2025-01-31.

Copyright reform is necessary for national security(annas-archive.org)

55 points by artninja1988 1 year ago | 50 comments

Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty(annas-archive.org)

564 points by yamrzou 1 year ago | 62 comments

Anna's Archive blog post announcing the winners of its $10,000 bounty for visualizing the ISBN space and which books it has archived.

Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight(torrentfreak.com)

392 points by askl 6 months ago | 395 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting Spotify and major labels won a $322M default judgment and domain-suspension injunction against Anna's Archive operators.

Backups Aren't Simple(filipovski.net)

318 points by afilipovski 1 month ago | 190 comments

Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.

ArchiveTeam has saved over 11.2B Reddit links(old.reddit.com)

449 points by susanthenerd 3 years ago | 127 comments

A r/DataHoarder post announcing ArchiveTeam has archived over 10.8 billion Reddit links and asking volunteers to run ArchiveTeam Warrior before subreddits go dark on June 12.

Big data is dead (2023)(motherduck.com)

548 points by armanke13 2 years ago | 428 comments

A 2023 MotherDuck blog post by Jordan Tigani arguing that the era of big data is over and most organizations' data workloads are small.

Rarbg Is No More(web.archive.org)

1275 points by 0___0 3 years ago | 519 comments

Archived RARBG shutdown notice explaining the torrent site is closing due to team deaths from covid, the war in Europe, energy costs, and inflation.

Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others(rareese.com)

1034 points by rrreese 6 months ago | 619 comments

A personal blog post reporting that Backblaze's personal backup software quietly stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders, and possibly other data.