8.5.25 | Perplexity evades no-crawl directives, Show HN showcases wooden pixel display, Qwen-Image features native text rendering

Hacker News Highlights · Aug 5, 2025 · 11m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 5, 2025.

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives

https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785636

Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display

https://benholmen.com/blog/kilopixel/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787902

Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering

https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-image/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787631

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