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>I'm working on a proof of work reverse proxy to protect my server from bots in the future. Honestly I think this might end up being the mid-term solution. Fo
by Groxx 2y ago
>I'm working on a proof of work reverse proxy to protect my server from bots in the future.
Honestly I think this might end up being the mid-term solution.
For legitimate traffic it's not too onerous, and recognized users can easily have bypasses. For bulk traffic it's extremely costly, and can be scaled to make it more costly as abuse happens. Hashcash is a near-ideal corporate-bot combat system, and layers nicely with other techniques too.
- xena 2y agoI'm gonna publish more about this tomorrow. I didn't expect this to blow up so much.
- Groxx 2y agoThank you for the issue-awareness-building and the tool! Hopefully not too much hn-drama went your way, I always enjoy your content :)
- xena 2y agoNo prob! I wrote more about my defense tool here in case you're interested: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/anubis/ https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/anubis/