Hacker News with Generative AI: Bots

The Botfly Test: Characterizing parasitic automated behavior in online communit (hannahilea.com)
I recently encountered non-transparent automated behavior in a tech-community forum, and it really, really annoyed me. After confirming that my spidey senses were correct, and that this user was actively, regularly, and non-transparently performing and benefiting from automated interactions in the forum, I spent some time trying to figure out why exactly I was so annoyed by it.

Online Communities, Automated Behavior, Bots, User Experience, Ethics

24 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 2 comments

An internet where bots outnumber humans (kadoa.com)
Bots are now estimated to make up nearly half of all internet traffic worldwide.

Bots, Internet, Technology, Trends

7 points by hubraumhugo 8 days ago | 5 comments

California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots (veeto.app)
Assembly Member Wilson's bot disclosure legislation redefines California's approach to automated online communications by requiring all bots to identify themselves during interactions with state residents, regardless of their purpose.

California Law, Bots, AI, Legislation, Online Communication

284 points by alexd127 28 days ago | 166 comments

Ask HN: Has everyone just given up on blocking bots? (ycombinator.com)
Bots account for just a ridiculous amount of web traffic, tying up resources and bandwidth, and the go to response to this is...basically nothing.

Web Development, Bots, Security, Internet

12 points by pupppet 42 days ago | 9 comments

Realtime bot block list on Bluesky (morphic.pro)
A Bluesky bot that automates a block list of accounts that spam follow. 🚫 Blocking 11056 accounts

Social Media, Bots, Anti-Spam, Bluesky

6 points by joshchernoff 45 days ago | 1 comments

Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls (ycombinator.com)

Social Media, Bots, Online Communities

66 points by thoughtcritical 74 days ago | 70 comments

Ask HN: Does Hacker News consist mostly of real people? (ycombinator.com)
I'm curious about how the community operates, how much of the engagement is genuine, and whether there are any bots or automation in discussions. I'd love to hear insights from those who've been part of this community for a while!

Community, Social Media, Bots, Automation, Hacker News

15 points by EncryptedMan 77 days ago | 31 comments

Is it me or is Reddit mostly bots now? (ycombinator.com)
A lot of the comments I am seeing under posts seem just a bit off.

Social Media, Bots, User Experience

37 points by rizs12 99 days ago | 42 comments

Show HN: Email Inbox for Bots (botmailroom.com)
An Email Inbox for Bots.

Bots, Email, Software, Tools

21 points by itsskiseason 102 days ago | 6 comments

Show HN: XHR anti bot bypass (xhr.dev) (xhr.dev)
Let your bot browse like a human

Web Development, Bots, Security, Anti-bot

19 points by skilbjo 107 days ago | 2 comments

ActivityBot: A simple ActivityPub bot server in PHP (gitlab.com)
A single PHP file which acts as a basic ActivityPub bot server.

PHP, Social Media, Open Source, Bots, ActivityPub

6 points by fanf2 110 days ago | 0 comments

More than 30% of PRs in public GitHub repos are from bots (twitter.com)

GitHub, Bots, Open Source, Software Development, Automation

4 points by thunderbong 124 days ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: Why are social media spam bots still a thing? (ycombinator.com)
Specifically Instagram. After many years, I still get regular messages from spam bots, usually pretending to be women that are romantically interested. It seems trivial to ban (or even prevent) those accounts, from a technical perspective. Reporting them also doesn't seem to do much. Why is this still a thing? This should have been a solved problem years ago no? Are there, besides technical reasons, other reasons to keep spam bots alive on their platforms?

Social Media, Spam, Bots, Instagram

6 points by Avalaxy 124 days ago | 5 comments

Reddit Bot CLI: tool to monitor subreddits for keywords and post comment (github.com/VashonG)
Reddit Bot CLI is a command-line tool that automatically monitors specific subreddits for keywords and posts comments when those keywords are found.

Reddit, Bots, Automation

14 points by thunderbong 134 days ago | 4 comments

Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots (ycombinator.com)
Last year, just for fun, I created a single index.php website calculating HEX colors to RGB. It takes 3 and 6 digit notation (ie. #c00 and #cc0000) and converts it to RGB value. No database, just single .php file, converting values on the fly.

Web Development, Performance, Bots

287 points by damir 135 days ago | 200 comments

Bots, so many bots (wakatime.com)
ProductHunt has over 1 million user signups. More than 60% of those are bots.

Bots, ProductHunt, User Signups

414 points by welder 157 days ago | 438 comments

The internet is 90% Fake (ycombinator.com)
The internet is not real and 90% of its traffic is likely bots.

Internet, Bots, Fake News

9 points by micksey1234 157 days ago | 3 comments

Developing a Go bot embedding Ichiban Prolog (rogersm.net)
Ichiban Prolog is a #golang implementation of an ISO compatible Prolog. To learn how to embed it, I decided to add Prolog support to Hellabot, a simple irc bot.

Go, Programming Languages, Bots, Prolog

69 points by triska 164 days ago | 6 comments

The Russian Bot Army That Conquered Online Poker (bloomberg.com)

Russia, Online Poker, Bots, Cybersecurity, Gaming

6 points by chris_overseas 167 days ago | 0 comments

Open Source Twitter Bot (github.com/yousef-rafat)
Note: This repository is made for education purposes only

Open Source, Twitter, Bots, Education

4 points by yousef_g 172 days ago | 1 comments

Baiting the bot (conspirator0.substack.com)
LLM chatbots can be engaged in endless "conversations" by considerably simpler text generation bots. This has some interesting implications.

Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Bots

118 points by anigbrowl 180 days ago | 68 comments

Has anyone noticed how overrun by bots Reddit has become? (ycombinator.com)

Reddit, Bots, Social Media

25 points by joegibbs 184 days ago | 25 comments

HellPot – A portal to endless suffering meant to punish unruly HTTP bots (github.com/yunginnanet)

Security, Bots, HTTP, Programming, Software

56 points by mikae1 224 days ago | 17 comments

Show HN: Perplexity (llama3 70B) Inline Bot on Telegram (telegrambots.ai)

AI, Telegram, Bots, Open Source

13 points by sandoche 245 days ago | 12 comments

Block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click (cloudflare.com)