I Posted to HN — and AI Crawlers Immediately Flooded My Website
sammy0910 · hn · 2026-10-13
A developer documents how posting a link on Hacker News triggered an immediate flood of AI crawler traffic to his personal site, with bots from multiple AI companies hitting the page far more aggressively than human visitors — a vivid illustration of the growing strain AI scraping puts on small independent websites.
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