> So you got hammered by curl requests! But isn't that part of your delivery static anyway? Were you regenerating the same HTML over and over?
i dont think this was the cause of the slowdown, it was just sort of the thing that led to the discovery that this was mostly bots.
in general, because the purpose of the website is to allow users to generate news feeds based on custom criteria, it does do a bit of meaningful work on each request (ones that do follow through and load the full page).
> How many was it?
> Also interesting that it was a single "user". (user-agent?) Did it come from a different IP every time?
I'm intentionally leaving some of the details vague here, both because I don't want to be too harsh on the original author (it may have just been accidental/a buggy program/etc.), and because I don't want the traffic generators to know how im flagging them.
You can also link between Org documents and org-publish will export the documents with working web links, if you're lucky. That's how https://entropicthoughts.com works.
if you do decide to give it a try, and are coming from vim, i've had a good experience with https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode as a way to kind of bridge the gap into modal editing
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 was going to comment on that too. Talk about burying the lede! The idea of using an LLM to generate a static program for a specific web site is brilliant. It reminds me of the second Futamura projection.
My problem isn't really filtering out the AI (there's plenty of options for that) is just the void left by people posting and working on AI things, writing about how AI is great, stupid, useful, useless.
I know it's the nature of HN to be centered (nay, fixated) on the latest things, but I think I'm the wake of so much AI content, the people who would have otherwise done something else are doing AI things or posting elsewhere
As others have pointed out there are still fun things, but I feel like there are quantifiably fewer things that I enjoy on here, every week.
I used to love scrolling hn first thing in the morning and now I rarely do
yeah, ... I can't say that I love certain aspects of this era we're all living in
despite everything, I think there are people out there who care a lot, and who are doing good work, and I'm hopeful that if we care enough we can sort of redirect this wave into something good for the world
this website reduces the priority of content, rather than filter it entirely, so some articles with high score will still appear, but lower down than they otherwise would.
This is configurable though, so you can make it whatever you want.
i dont think this was the cause of the slowdown, it was just sort of the thing that led to the discovery that this was mostly bots.
in general, because the purpose of the website is to allow users to generate news feeds based on custom criteria, it does do a bit of meaningful work on each request (ones that do follow through and load the full page).
> How many was it? > Also interesting that it was a single "user". (user-agent?) Did it come from a different IP every time?
I'm intentionally leaving some of the details vague here, both because I don't want to be too harsh on the original author (it may have just been accidental/a buggy program/etc.), and because I don't want the traffic generators to know how im flagging them.