AI Bot Traffic Floods Website After Hacker News Post
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A developer’s website, sprinklz.io, faced severe slowdowns after a Hacker News post drove traffic. Initial assumptions blamed genuine users, but logging revealed nearly half the traffic came from an AI service summarizing website changes. Other AI bots, including Claude and OpenAI, contributed to the load, along with vulnerability scanners. The developer mitigated the issue with robots.txt, rate limits, and infrastructure improvements.
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