Also, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, more scrapers. They're trying to keep things accessible without JavaScript, which mostly rules out the typical proof of work solutions like Anubis (which they're definitely aware of, as they had an article on it).
LWN is a poster child for something that could be entirely static pre-generated HTML for literally all unauthenticated requests at a server cost lower than serving and verifying anti-bot checks. If Anubis provides any benefit at all then they are really doing something wrong like fetching a bunch of comments from a database and generating the resulting HTML for each visitor.
Food and shelter if nothing else. Gotta pay the upkeep on the meat robots!
Also, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, more scrapers. They're trying to keep things accessible without JavaScript, which mostly rules out the typical proof of work solutions like Anubis (which they're definitely aware of, as they had an article on it).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864252
LWN is a poster child for something that could be entirely static pre-generated HTML for literally all unauthenticated requests at a server cost lower than serving and verifying anti-bot checks. If Anubis provides any benefit at all then they are really doing something wrong like fetching a bunch of comments from a database and generating the resulting HTML for each visitor.
Have you seen the price of hard drives these days?
Only 200 subscriber months at their previous lowest tier for a 28 TiB drive. How much storage do you think a text-heavy site like LWN needs?
They archive A LOT of mailing lists… it's not only about the articles they write themselves.