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pablohoffman

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July 3, 2008 (18y ago)
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I am a programmer & entrepreneur

I code in Python (mostly)

I live in Montevideo, Uruguay

I work at Scrapinghub (www.scrapinghub.com)

  1. Ask HN: What are the best tools for web scraping in 2022?

    Last time this question was asked on HN was in 2017 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15694118), a lot has changed in the last 5 years in the world of web scraping (legal landscape, antibot unblockers, data type…

    313 points 159
  2. Portia (open source visual scraper) introduces JavaScript support (blog.scrapinghub.com)
    20 points 0
  3. Using Git to manage staff vacations in a large distributed team (blog.scrapinghub.com)
    6 points 0
  4. Portia, an open-source visual web scraper (blog.scrapinghub.com)
    367 points 69
  5. Optimizing memory usage of scikit-learn models using succinct Tries (blog.scrapinghub.com)
    23 points 0
  6. The Twisted Way (glyph.twistedmatrix.com)
    27 points 31
  7. Finding similar items (web crawling) (blog.scrapinghub.com)
    2 points 0
  8. Common Crawl releases free 5 Billion Page Web Index (commoncrawl.org)
    6 points 0
  9. Privnote gets EuroPriSe certification (blog.insophia.com)
    1 points 0
  10. Interop returns 16 million IPv4 addresses to ARIN (arin.net)
    6 points 5
  11. Three Ways to Protect EC2 Instances from Accidental Termination and Loss of Data (alestic.com)
    3 points 0
  12. Google Project 10^100 winners (googleblog.blogspot.com)
    2 points 0
  13. IJSON - a new SAX-like JSON parser for Python (softwaremaniacs.org)
    2 points 0
  14. Scaling an AWS infrastructure - Tools and Patterns (highscalability.com)
    41 points 1
  15. Google Chrome Speed Tests (youtube.com)

    Best speed tests. Ever. Oh, and best browser too ;)

    1 points 0
  16. Www.sun.con is now a 301 Redirect to www.oracle.com (sun.com)
    3 points 0