Hacker News with Generative AI: Bots

Bot countermeasures impact on the quality of life on the web (volution.ro)
I think enough has already been written on the subject of fighting against rogue bots (today mostly for LLM scraping) that are ruining the web, not only by strip-mining human creativity and turning it into average slop, but especially by taking down hosting infrastructure through uncoordinated crawling that turns into DDoS.

Web Scraping, Bots, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

20 points by ciprian_craciun 13 days ago | 9 comments

Go-away:Self-hosted abuse detection and rule enforcement for AI scraping bots (gammaspectra.live)
Self-hosted abuse detection and rule enforcement against low-effort mass AI scraping and bots. Uses conventional non-nuclear options.

AI, Web Development, Bots, Security

7 points by nalinidash 20 days ago | 2 comments

I Accidentally Made a Botnet (Marcus Hutchins) [YouTube] (youtube.com)

Cybersecurity, Bots, Security

3 points by _benj 21 days ago | 0 comments

I use zip bombs to protect my server (idiallo.com)
The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots.

Security, Bots, Web Traffic

1076 points by foxfired 25 days ago | 448 comments

Go-away (another HTTP proxy for LLM scraper defence) (gammaspectra.live)
Self-hosted abuse detection and rule enforcement against low-effort mass AI scraping and bots.

AI, Scraping, Security, Bots, Web Development

10 points by todsacerdoti 37 days ago | 0 comments

Cloudflare builds AI to lead AI scraper bots into horrible maze of junk content (theregister.com)
Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers.

Artificial Intelligence, Web Security, Bots

21 points by gpi 63 days ago | 7 comments

Anubis: Proof-of-work proxy to prevent AI crawlers (techaro.lol)
Making sure you're not a bot!

AI, Security, Bots, Web Development

100 points by techknowlogick 64 days ago | 58 comments

Cloudflare: Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth (cloudflare.com)
Today, we’re excited to announce AI Labyrinth, a new mitigation approach that uses AI-generated content to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives. When you opt in, Cloudflare will automatically deploy an AI-generated set of linked pages when we detect inappropriate bot activity, without the need for customers to create any custom rules.

AI, Security, Bots, Cloudflare

65 points by ambigious7777 64 days ago | 1 comments

Elon Musk promotes negative Tesla survey turned positive by bots (electrek.co)
Elon Musk has shared a survey that was clearly negative about Tesla last week, but it was made to look positive for Tesla after bots rigged the results.

Elon Musk, Tesla, Bots, Surveys, Social Media

12 points by croes 65 days ago | 0 comments

Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth (cloudflare.com)
Today, we’re excited to announce AI Labyrinth, a new mitigation approach that uses AI-generated content to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives.

Artificial Intelligence, Security, Web Development, Bots

238 points by pabs3 65 days ago | 146 comments

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

25 points by todsacerdoti 81 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 85 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 106 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 120 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 123 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 152 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 154 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 177 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 180 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 184 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 188 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 202 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 202 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 211 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 212 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 234 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 235 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 242 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 245 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 250 days ago | 1 comments