Goalposts

Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2023 Septemberxbpx

About a guide to web scraping with ChatGPT.

If you're feeding the specific nodes to scrape, iterating and bug fixing what is Chatgpt doing other than giving you someone to talk with while you code?

Call me when I can ask a LLM to pull structured data in CSV form from website X and deliver it to me each morning. And it does it.

An LLM, asked once, pulls structured CSV data from a given website and delivers it reliably every morning.

Has this happened?

Yes 103 (82%)Not sure 15 (12%)No 7 (6%)

Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.