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Maurycy
Personal blog · maurycyz.comhardwareprogramming
Maurycy's personal blog at maurycyz.com covers hardware and programming. Since 2025, 42 different Hacker News readers have linked it 73 times, most often “Trap Bots on Your Server”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Trap Bots on Your Server5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-10-26
- Please Don't Mess with Links5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-10-23
- Feed the bots4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-10-26
- Some thoughts on hosting email3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-29
- A rant about phishing: It's not the user's fault (and not DNS either)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-10
- You already have a Git server3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-24
- You have been mislead about lightbulbs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-30
- Be Careful with LLM "Agents"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-24
- Search engine results are terrible2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-15
- Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-13
What Hacker News says?
This is what I got from chatgpt while logged out. Prompt: summarize https://maurycyz.com/misc/the_cost_of_trash/ >I’m sorry, but I couldn’t locate a meaningful, readable article at the URL you provided (the content looked like placeholder or garbled text). If you like, I can try to find an archived version or other copies of *“The Cost of Trash”* by that author and summarise from that. Would you like me to do that?…
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on “Feed the bots”Submitted You already have a Git server as a story · 653 points
HN discussionThey don't seem to contain the meta-instruction. Example with GPT-5 Thinking: https://maurycyz.com/babble/With-Wand-and-Broomstick-Across-... "Short version: The page is a nonsense / glitchy faux-technical text dressed up like a lab manual." If we take a page from the site that doesn't hint but does have the in-band instruction: https://maurycyz.com/misc/ipv4/ "Short version: I tried to load https://maurycyz.com/mis…
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on “Feed the bots”Submitted No adblocker detected as a story · 619 points
HN discussionPrompt: Can you summarize https://maurycyz.com/misc/the_cost_of_trash/ > The article "The Cost of Trash" by Maurycy Z. discusses the author's experience with aggressive, relentless web scrapers (likely training Large Language Models (LLMs)) and the various ineffective methods attempted to stop them. > Here is a summary of the key points: > [...] Decent summary of the article [...] > In short, the author decided that…
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on “Feed the bots”Submitted Feed the bots as a story · 305 points
HN discussionOn is website: https://maurycyz.com/projects/ai-tarpit/ He mentions that he had a "Chrome" browser send him 20 requests per second from the address: 43.134.189.59. If you look this address up on shodan.io you will see this address is for Tencent, a public company that makes AI, with an annual revenue of $92 Billion USD.
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on “Feed the bots”Submitted Why you can't color calibrate deep space photos as a story · 233 points
HN discussionThe blog post ( https://maurycyz.com/misc/the_cost_of_trash/ ) says that gzip bombs don't work particularly well: > Gzip only provides a compression ratio of a little over 1000: If I want a file that expands to 100 GB, I’ve got to serve a 100 MB asset. Worse, when I tried it, the bots just shrugged it off, with some even coming back for more. I thought a gzip bomb was crafted to explicitly be virtually unlimited in…
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on “Feed the bots”Submitted Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable as a story · 199 points
HN discussionThe follow on post explains: > You don’t really need any bot detection: just linking to the garbage from your main website will do. Because each page links to five more garbage pages, the crawler’s queue will quickly fill up with an exponential amount of garbage until it has no time left to crawl your real site. From: https://maurycyz.com/projects/trap_bots/
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on “Feed the bots”Submitted Making glow-in-the-dark Strontium Aluminate as a story · 91 points
HN discussionAh, it is explained in another post - https://maurycyz.com/projects/trap_bots/ Clever
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on “Feed the bots”Submitted Modifying a radiation meter for (radioactive) rock collecting as a story · 67 points
HN discussionAdd "babble" to any url to get a page of nonsense: https://maurycyz.com/babble/projects/trap_bots/
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on “Feed the bots”Submitted How big can I print my image? as a story · 61 points
HN discussionThis follow-up post has the details of the "Markov babbler": https://maurycyz.com/projects/trap_bots/
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on “Feed the bots”Submitted Dirt to Airplanes: Making Aluminium as a story · 19 points
HN discussion"Gzip only provides a compression ratio of a little over 1000: If I want a file that expands to 100 GB, I’ve got to serve a 100 MB asset. Worse, when I tried it, the bots just shrugged it off, with some even coming back for more." https://maurycyz.com/misc/the_cost_of_trash/#:~:text=throw%2...
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on “Messing with scraper bots”Submitted Trap Bots on Your Server as a story · 18 points
HN discussionAnd here's the blog article describing the widget: https://maurycyz.com/misc/ads/
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on “What an unprocessed photo looks like”Submitted You Already Have a Git Server as a story · 17 points
HN discussionThis seemed familiar? The first few lines/commands are a straight copy and paste of a post that reached front page 8 months back: https://maurycyz.com/misc/easy_git/ (HN post [here]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45710721 )). The rest is just AI rewording. Even the quips about wiring this up to the blog's site generator are stolen. Even the _date format_ (which is different from the rest of the sites blogs) i…
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on “You already have a Git server”Submitted A sea of sparks: Seeing radioactivity as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI was surprised they used a square (5x5) as fonts are usually taller than wide. But they mention: > Narrower 4x5 and 3x5 dimensions are possible, but would require sacrificing the M, dotted zero, and reduce U/V/Y distinctiveness Note whole the characters are 5x5, the character box is 6x6 to provide for Spain between characters, from what I can tell from https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcufont/real.jpg
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on “5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens”Submitted Please Don't Mess with Links as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted What an unprocessed photo looks like as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trap Bots on Your Server as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Please don't mess with links as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making a rickroll laser as a story · 4 points
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