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Xkeeper's blog
Personal blog · blog.xkeeper.netgamesprogramming
Xkeeper's blog is a personal blog at blog.xkeeper.net about games and programming. Since 2025, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “TCRF has been getting DDoSed”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for the Frog and Toad analogy about increasingly capable machines and for the author's posts on blocking bots and VPNs on the TCRF site. The comments describe the analogy and art as the draw.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- TCRF has been getting DDoSed3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-30
What Hacker News says?
Nice analogy, wonderful art. Something I've found interesting is that LLMs tend to act like this on the small scale, too. Claude Code in particular appears to be absolutely relentless in trying to come up with workarounds when faced with a block page.[1] As an experiment, a developer for Anubis recently added a feature to give the LLMs an "easier" problem to solve instead of straight-up blocking them, and it seemed…
Comment linking /the-cutting-room-floor/self-hosting-and-junk-traffic/
on “Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines”Submitted August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem as a story · 34 points
HN discussionUnfortunately true. I wrote about it early last year here: https://blog.xkeeper.net/uncategorized/tcrf-has-been-getting... The story has not changed much. Every so often I will remove most of the blocks put in place, and within a few hours I'm back to having to block them. Many of the cheaper VPNs are also hosted on AWS / Google Cloud / Azure (or other cloud providers), which are also unilaterally blocked. I would m…
Comment linking /uncategorized/tcrf-has-been-getting-ddosed/
on “GameBoy Workboy”Submitted TCRF has been getting DDoSed as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted TCRF has been getting DDoSed as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted RetroAchievements and Moderation as a story · 1 points
HN discussion