Tell HN: Even HN is getting heavy traffic by AI crawlers

8 pointsposted 6 hours ago
by ksec

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3 Comments

minimaxir

6 hours ago

"HN is down more frequently so therefore it must be AI" does not logically follow.

ksec

6 hours ago

It specifically mention Human readers. Although Yes the other side of the coin doesn't have to be AI it could be any web crawler.

krapp

6 hours ago

HN is coded by AI now, at least in part, so that may be an issue wrt bloat and inefficiency in the codebase.