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Melanie Kat

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Melanie Kat writes melanie kat, a personal blog at melkat.blog about security and business. Since 2024, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Unsafe Pricing at Any Scale”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.

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6HN people?
2024–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2024

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a post on a way to surprise bots that ignore robots.txt. The only comment is a thank-you on the AI-driven forum traffic topic and shares the link, without judging the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Unsafe Pricing at Any Scale
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-06-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. I didn't know about this. Thank you! After some digging, I also found a great way to surprise bots that don't respect robots.txt[1] :) [1]: https://melkat.blog/p/unsafe-pricing

    Comment linking /p/unsafe-pricing

    on “AI companies cause most of traffic on forums”
  2. Submitted Unsafe Pricing at Any Scale as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted What Happened to 1Password? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Unsafe Pricing at Any Scale as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Pointing AI crawlers to 10 GB speed test files as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Hosting an IRC Server with Traefik and Coolify as a story · 1 points

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