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Developer's site flooded with AI bot traffic after Hacker News post
Original: I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic
Developer Sammy Straus reports that after posting on Hacker News, his personal website was quickly flooded with traffic from AI crawler bots, dwarfing human visitors. The post has drawn significant engagement on Hacker News, where developers are increasingly comparing notes on aggressive AI scraping that strains small sites and how to block or rate-limit these bots.
Why now: AI crawlers aggressively scraping small personal websites is a growing concern among developers.
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Evidence
- I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI BOT traffic · sammy0910 · 345
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