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notatoad05/15/20251 replyview on HN

60/hr is not the same as 1/min, unless you're trying to continually make as many requests as possible, like a crawler. and if that is for your use case, then your traffic is probably exactly what they're trying to block.


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zarzavat05/15/2025

60/h is obviously well within normal human usage of an app and not bot traffic...

A normal rate limit to separate humans and bots would be something like 60 per minute. So it's about an order of magnitude too low.

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