and a handful of other ASNs on almost all of my properties. It would be one thing if it was simple scraping, but it's often genuine agentic abuse (just spamming for vulnerabilities* or scraping millions of pages with very little valuable or dynamic content). These clouds must get the abuse happening under their own roof under control.
I banned Alibaba's Cloud two years ago and it still hits one of my domains 1 million times per day, despite every route 4xx-ing during that time.
Even Apple has aggressively ramped up its scraping in the past few months, but thankfully they do respect robots.txt.
It's frustrating because some of my real users route through these clouds via their work VPNs.
* like leaked .env routes, brute forcing admin panels, and so on
What confused me most about this is that the entire site is, apparently, a single page (there's no sitemap that I can use to verify this; there IS an RSS file which appears to confirm it) containing all posts. Links at the top (headed "Table of Contents") are all in-page links.
At first, I assumed this was a single blog post, especially with a "Table of Contents" at the top. I guess it's following some old-school blogging conventions, but AFAICR, even those sites retained individual pages for separate posts.
It's too late to comment on your older posts, but I'd just like to say: it's nice to see someone making oldschool web browsers work properly on the modern web.
You shouldnt defend bad actors and abusers. Hiding them is tantamount to them attacking others indiscriminately. Cause youre not the first victim, and definitely not the last.
You see something, you say something, or you do something.
I _also_ posted to HN and made it to #1[0]; the effect this had on my CPU/network traffic on a 5/EUR month VPS over at Hetzner was in the single digit percentages.
As per the wiki page for the C10k problem[1] where it says "_was_ [emphasis mine] the problem of optimizing computer networking stacks to handle a large number of clients at the same time". This was solved over a decade ago...
The c10k problem is a different problem. It relates to simultaneous open TCP connections at a server. It would take a very very large number of crawler bots to force open 10k connections, I suspect.
Have you tried dealing with bots using CF Turnstile? Ref: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/turnstile/
There is so much spam, abuse, and aggressive scraping that I've had to block:
and a handful of other ASNs on almost all of my properties. It would be one thing if it was simple scraping, but it's often genuine agentic abuse (just spamming for vulnerabilities* or scraping millions of pages with very little valuable or dynamic content). These clouds must get the abuse happening under their own roof under control.I banned Alibaba's Cloud two years ago and it still hits one of my domains 1 million times per day, despite every route 4xx-ing during that time.
Even Apple has aggressively ramped up its scraping in the past few months, but thankfully they do respect robots.txt.
It's frustrating because some of my real users route through these clouds via their work VPNs.
* like leaked .env routes, brute forcing admin panels, and so on
What confused me most about this is that the entire site is, apparently, a single page (there's no sitemap that I can use to verify this; there IS an RSS file which appears to confirm it) containing all posts. Links at the top (headed "Table of Contents") are all in-page links.
At first, I assumed this was a single blog post, especially with a "Table of Contents" at the top. I guess it's following some old-school blogging conventions, but AFAICR, even those sites retained individual pages for separate posts.
it's org-html-export-to-html babyyy lmao
It's too late to comment on your older posts, but I'd just like to say: it's nice to see someone making oldschool web browsers work properly on the modern web.
https://www.sammystraus.com/#using-llms-to-make-the-emacs-we...
:) ive been dreaming of a usable emacs browser for so long
> one specific user. I won't name names
Who is?!
haha im not naming names
You shouldnt defend bad actors and abusers. Hiding them is tantamount to them attacking others indiscriminately. Cause youre not the first victim, and definitely not the last.
You see something, you say something, or you do something.
Try posting something viral on Mastodon. The logs clearly show that it isn't the most efficient social network.
I _also_ posted to HN and made it to #1[0]; the effect this had on my CPU/network traffic on a 5/EUR month VPS over at Hetzner was in the single digit percentages.
As per the wiki page for the C10k problem[1] where it says "_was_ [emphasis mine] the problem of optimizing computer networking stacks to handle a large number of clients at the same time". This was solved over a decade ago...
Now get off my lawn!
(TBF I think the author acknowledges this)
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43725815
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10k_problem
The c10k problem is a different problem. It relates to simultaneous open TCP connections at a server. It would take a very very large number of crawler bots to force open 10k connections, I suspect.