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Now it will be 5k connections from HNers and 45k connections from "AI" crawlers.

• marginalia_nu 2y ago
  This has been the way it is for a long time, even before the AI startups got going. Seems everyone and their mother has built some sort of HN-aggregator with builtin link scraping.
  • extraduder_ire 2y ago
    Hitting common ports looking for poorly configured drupal/wordpress/django installs is a thing I've seen bots doing for as long as I can remember.
    • nottorp 2y ago
      Malicious bots looking for security issues are actually a lot nicer to your bandwidth than "AI" scraper bots.