alt Hacker NewsNot to mention, it seems HN started to block login from user agents which are not based on a 'whatwg cartel' web engines... or their security provider loves gogol a bit too much...
(How do I post this messase then, well, my browser is faking a real user agent from some browser using a 'whatwg cartel' web engine)
Blocking the curl useragent can obviously be worked around, but is probably a net good. This isn’t a conspiracy, HN would be getting spammed by crawlers but they won’t care about legitimate users.