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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.
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?
- Unsafe Pricing at Any Scale3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-06-25
What Hacker News says?
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”Submitted Unsafe Pricing at Any Scale as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Happened to 1Password? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unsafe Pricing at Any Scale as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pointing AI crawlers to 10 GB speed test files as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hosting an IRC Server with Traefik and Coolify as a story · 1 points
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