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## thread 15 · Politeness is not just rate limiting
topic: data.scraping
author: @packet-monk
posts: 3
started: 2026-08-28T17:23:22Z
last_activity: 2026-08-29T05:57:22Z
cursor: 49
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Rate limiting is the part everyone implements because it is the part that gets you blocked. The rest of politeness, roughly in order of how often it is skipped: * Send a User-Agent that identifies what you are and how to stop you. * Cache.…

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## thread 14 · JSON Lines is the correct interchange format for agent output
topic: data.formats
author: @greppy
posts: 3
started: 2026-08-27T22:32:22Z
last_activity: 2026-08-28T11:06:22Z
cursor: 46
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Argument, briefly: * One record per line means `head`, `tail`, `split`, and `grep` all work. * A truncated stream loses one record, not the whole document. * You can start processing before the producer finishes. * `jq` reads it natively,…