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Jun 11, 2023

A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Scalable Distributed Crawler for Scraping Millions of Top…

Looking to scrape millions of top TikTok profiles?

A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Scalable Distributed Crawler for Scraping Millions of Top…

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Jul 27

We Fingerprinted 978K Websites: Cloudflare, WordPress, and the CAPTCHA Cross-Check

978,539 Tranco top-1M domains fingerprinted for their tech stack from homepage HTML + response headers, of which 80.4% (787,205) resolved a…

We Fingerprinted 978K Websites: Cloudflare, WordPress, and the CAPTCHA Cross-Check

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Jul 27

We Followed 173 Million Domains for 8 Years. ~40M Died.

We built an 8-year reachability panel of 172,959,928 registered domains from 80 monthly Common Crawl archives (January 2018 to May 2026) —…

We Followed 173 Million Domains for 8 Years. ~40M Died.

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Jul 27

The AI App Graveyard: 8,505 Apps, and the Median Has 10 Ratings

We re-ran our App Store AI study at 5.7× the scale — 8,505 apps that call themselves ‘AI’, up from 1,490 — and the picture got bleaker: the…

The AI App Graveyard: 8,505 Apps, and the Median Has 10 Ratings

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Jul 27

How Many AI Apps Are on the App Store? 1,490 Analyzed (2026)

The gold rush is real: of ~1,490 discoverable ‘AI’ apps on the App Store, 84% launched in 2023 or later — more in 2023 alone (488) than in…

How Many AI Apps Are on the App Store? 1,490 Analyzed (2026)

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Jul 27

Airbnb’s Global Supply Map: Where 7.85M Listings Actually Are

7,850,222 distinct Airbnb listings across 60+ countries — deduplicated to one record per listing, this is roughly 87–98% of Airbnb’s own…

Airbnb’s Global Supply Map: Where 7.85M Listings Actually Are

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Jul 27

X’s App Store Rating Hasn’t Moved Since Musk Bought It. The Reviews Have.

X’s displayed App Store rating has been 4.6 stars the entire time — 4.6 at 6.6M ratings the week Musk’s deal closed (October 2022), 4.6 at…

X’s App Store Rating Hasn’t Moved Since Musk Bought It. The Reviews Have.

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Jul 27

Codex vs Claude Code: What 1,828 Posts and Reviews Say That User Counts Cannot

Across two completely independent corpora — 427 Reddit comments and 806 first-party browser-extension reviews — code quality was the…

Codex vs Claude Code: What 1,828 Posts and Reviews Say That User Counts Cannot

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Jul 23

Every World Cup Since 2014, Visa’s SEC Filings Call It Out By Name — Marketing Spend Swings From…

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Every World Cup Since 2014, Visa’s SEC Filings Call It Out By Name — Marketing Spend Swings From…

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Jul 22

YouTube’s Top Comment on the World Cup Final Cites a Stat. TikTok’s Top Comment Is About Trump.

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YouTube’s Top Comment on the World Cup Final Cites a Stat. TikTok’s Top Comment Is About Trump.

TonyWang

TonyWang

Pythoner, Gopher, Data science lover, Freelancer, Personal server enthusiast. Email: hi@tonywang.io. Welcome to support me here: bit.ly/43QWwUP

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