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Ben Welsh
Personal blog · palewi.re/posts · on HN as palewireprogrammingdata
Ben Welsh writes palewire, a personal blog at palewi.re about programming and data. Since 2012, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Who Blocks OpenAI, Google AI and Common Crawl?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-26, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Ben Welsh's site for his data journalism work, including a project tracking which news publishers block OpenAI's GPTBot and an index of FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ben Welsh is a reporter, editor and computer programmer.
Most-linked posts?
- Who Blocks OpenAI, Google AI and Common Crawl?5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-09-11
What Hacker News says?
Yes. There's even a project tracking which newspapers are blocking them here: https://palewi.re/docs/news-homepages/openai-gptbot-robotstx...
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on “ChatGPT can now search the web in real time”Submitted Who Blocks OpenAI, Google AI and Common Crawl? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor any, like myself, wondering " Who is Ben Welsh " ? Hello. My name is Ben Welsh. I'm an Iowan living in New York City. I am a reporter, an editor and a computer programmer. My job is to use those skills, together, to find and tell stories. I work at Reuters, the world's largest multimedia news provider, where I founded the organization's News Applications Desk. In that role, I lead the development of dashboards,…
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on “Ben Welsh made an index of all FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive”Submitted Python library to detect News Story as a story · 2 points
HN discussionToday I'm happy to release "First Basemap," a free tutorial that shares one of our most valuable recent innovations at Reuters. It's at https://palewi.re/docs/first-basemap/ Follow the step-by-step guide and you'll learn how to create a shockingly fast and virtually free interactive map of the world. This type of map is often called a basemap because it provides the foundation for displaying data layers like weather…
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on “First Basemap: How to create a fast and virtually free map”Submitted Python Recipe: Grab page, scrape table, download file as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Django recipe: Twitter-style infinite scroll as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Liberating the public art on L.A.'s light rail lines (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted First Basemap: How to create a fast and virtually free map as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who Blocks OpenAI, Google AI and Common Crawl? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who Blocks OpenAI? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 1 in 3 news sites blocks OpenAI via robots.txt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leaflet recipe: Hover events on features and polygons as a story · 1 points
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