AIHacker Newsabout 4 hours ago
Website Flooded with AI Bot Traffic
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A developer named Sammy reported that his site, sprinklz.io, suffered severe performance issues after posting to Hacker News. He discovered nearly half the traffic came from one specific user running an AI service that summarizes website changes into newsletters. The developer blocked the abuser and added rate limits to handle the load.
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