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I think this one has greater impact than deepseek, next one for sure, China will take the lead without any question.

>Principal Software Engineer @ Bluehost. WordPress Core Committer. Baseball fan.

hmm yes, definitely. You are the principal.

Turkiye has more immigrants than any other country.

seems very populist.

I don’t use VPNs anymore. They feel pointless now since almost every website has antibot systems, and VPN IP ranges are much easier to flag than residential proxies.

it looks like the robots are not just autonomous but also they do cooperate with each other.

Rust is the clear winner of LLM era, you can't say otherwise.

depends on what you're trying to bypass in Cloudflare, turnstile or interstitial ?

I work with browser fingerprinting, so I took a look at the repo to see what it actually does. From what I can tell, it only patches navigator, the Audio API, and the Canvas API. That is pretty basic, so it will likely get flagged easily.

Castor launches headless Chrome with a randomized fingerprint and stealth scripts to hide automation.

you lost me in there.

I'm also self-hosting umami, great project.

IP is clean, most likely will pass any filtering. https://proxybase.xyz/ip/86.120.252.156

Reddit is doing this really good.

a new captcha technique unlocked :)

This will put Kimi's valuation at least $0.5T

It’s been irrelevant in the market for a while now.

Disclaimer: I own and operate proxybase.xyz [0]

Hi HN,

I wanted to jump in and share a few thoughts. Not all the residential networks mentioned on this page are bad actors.

Transparency & Auditing: Our clients are completely open-source, and we run strict internal audits before every single release [1][2]. You don't need to be a security wizard to verify this, either. You can easily audit the code yourself—just clone the repo, feed it into an AI, and ask the right questions.

Ethical Sourcing: Consent is everything. At Proxybase, we always get explicit consent from our providers before adding them to the pool. This is exactly how ethical sourcing should be done. Historically, this industry has been incredibly shady think malware bundled into iOS/Android apps or second-tier smart TVs secretly installing background scrapers. Fortunately, the sector is finally becoming more ethically aware.

Fair Payouts: A lot of networks hold onto provider funds for months, staking them to earn passive income while making users wait. Between sky-high payout thresholds and endless waiting periods, it’s a broken system. At Proxybase, we have a $1 minimum payout sent directly to your wallet using US stablecoins.

If you have a better idea on how we can make this industry better, just lmk. I'm reading/writing on HN everyday.

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[1] https://github.com/proxybasehq/proxybase-gui

[2] https://github.com/proxybasehq/proxybase-cli

what does it mean ?

you're not alone.

Rust is the clear winner of LLM era. You can't say otherwise.

yeap, unfortunately, only few can see this.

I think you’re steering this conversation in a direction that isn’t really meaningful. We have security mechanism in place that prevents misuse and fraud.

Yep, everyone comes out happy here. It's a win-win-win. Unlike other proxy businesses, we always get our providers' consent before adding them to our pool.

There are plenty of alternatives to Stripe. Just search for card processors. If you’re a high-risk merchant, or your product falls into a high-risk category, Stripe will probably reject you. That’s why there’s a big market for other processors to step in.

it's a nightmare.

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Hey HN, we’re ProxyBase. We’re building an API-first, fully headless SOCKS5 proxy network designed specifically for autonomous AI agents, LLM tool-calling, and large-scale web scraping.

Most traditional proxy networks operate in a bit of a gray area—they buy bandwidth harvested from sneaky, hidden SDK bundles embedded inside free apps. We're doing things differently:

100% Ethical Sourcing: We pay our node operators directly. People run our open-source CLI client to share their bandwidth and earn microcredits in real-time. It’s fully transparent, consent-driven, and compensated.

Built for Swarms, Not Dashboards: AI agents and automated workflows can provision, utilize, dynamically route (via metadata in the SOCKS5 auth string), and settle proxy fees entirely programmatically using US based stable coins without ever touching a manual web dashboard.

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Drop us a line at

jobs@proxybase.xyz with a bit about what you've built.

I play pickleball myself, and I can definitely tell you that line calls can sometimes be a problem.

why not Pickleball ?

>But how could the company be so careless?

Generally, these systems are designed by people whose only goal is to make money. Security is just treated as a liability until shit actually hits the fan.

Wise is not a bank.