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After Show HN: Targeting the Bot Storm

1•UJ-FLD-ScrTr•1h ago
After posting a Show HN on this platform, a veritable bot onslaught occurred within minutes. 175 bots were involved, generating over 1300 hits. Unfortunately, not a single real person was among the "visitors"—apparently not even out of pure curiosity. However, here is a list shortened to 50 entries (the input field doesn't allow more). The rest of the list, which has since been expanded to include another 90 bots, can be found via the link below. This list can be freely used for bot blocking, analysis, or whatever else you need it for.

1. Agent incident monitor/0.1 2. ai-freebie-radar/0.1 (+https://github.com/) 3. AI-NewsBot/3.0 article-extractor 4. AICUIScout/0.1 (+https://example.local; product research) 5. AIToolCompareBot/1.0 (+https://sortaitech.com/bot) 6. AppWatchBot/0.1 (+https://appwatch.ai/bot) 7. AppWatchBot/0.1 (+https://appwatch.ai/bot; freshness check only) 8. AppWatchBot/0.1 (+https://appwatch.ai/bot; liveness check only, no content stored) 9. arschiv-ngx/1.0 10. axios/1.13.5 11. BergaTools-ForumAggregator/1.0 (+https://github.com/BergaDev/PersonalTools) 12. Bryf/1.0 (Article Processor) 13. BubblemediaCrawler/1.0 (+https://bubblemedia.app/crawler) 14. CalatheaNews/2.0 (+https://github.com/nbitslabs/calathea-content-curator) 15. ClarFlow/2.0 (+https://clarflow.cn) 16. CheKakStartupBot/1.0 (+https://startup.chekak.store/about) 17. crawlberg/1.3.0 18. curl/7.4.0 19. directree-ingest/1.0 (+https://www.directree.io) 20. directree-outreach/1.0 (+https://www.directree.io) 21. Drakma/2.0.10 (SBCL 2.6.1; FreeBSD; 15.0-RELEASE-p10; http://weitz.de/drakma/) 22. Earthshine/1.0 (earthshine.fibonacci.ai; contact: hello@fibonacci.ai) 23. emerging-apps-monitor/2.0 (research; +https://hn.algolia.com/) 24. EnrichHatBot/0.1 (+https://hatos.internal/bot; first-party enrichment) 25. FixBeforeLaunchBot/0.1 (+https://fixbeforelaunch.com/bot; readiness scanner) 26. FlamingoBot (+https://hackernews.pink) 27. FoundryScope/1.0 (startup analysis bot; contact: amine.1.mestour@gmail.com) 28. FreshRSS/1.29.1 (Linux; https://freshrss.org) 29. GitHubCopilotRuntime-WebFetch 30. Go-http-client/1.1 31. go-resty/2.16.5 (https://github.com/go-resty/resty) 32. GreenWebChecker/1.0 (https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/green-web-checker-faq/) 33. HackerNews/1569 CFNetwork/3860.700.1 Darwin/25.6.0 34. HakuLabCollector/0.1 (+https://n8n.hakulab.cc) 35. Harmonic-HN-Android/3.1.2/fossRelease 36. Harmonic-HN-Android/3.1.2/playRelease 37. hermes-newsroom/0.1 (research project; +https://github.com/hermes-newsroom) 38. Hermes-SallyPageFetch/1.0 39. humanet-page-scraper/1.0 40. icon.horse/2.0 41. iHerd-surfer/0.1 (+https://i-herd.com; content discovery agent) 42. Indexaro/1.0 (+https://indexaro.com) 43. InfomateBot/1.0 (+https://infomate.club) 44. InsuranceLeadMachine/1.0 (+lead discovery; contact: ops@insuranceleadmachine.com) 45. InterestingFindsBot/0.1 (+https://nikhilkulkarni1755.com/bot) 46. IronReader/0.1 (+https://example.com; RSS reader) 47. Java/21.0.11 48. ken/0.1 (+https://github.com/zcag/ken) 49. KnisNewsCollector/1.0 (+local) 50. Ktor http-client

An expanded list with approximately 90 additional bots can be found at https://www.scraptrap.de/botlist.php

Quasi-Bialgebra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-bialgebra
1•blizow•2m ago•0 comments

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1•JumpCrisscross•4m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Free app for offline image search and smart file renaming

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1•ringlochid•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: A tool to share my data

1•roromainmain•14m ago•0 comments

Update on RISC-V Standards and Adoption at Hot Chips 2026

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1•lumpa•15m ago•0 comments

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1•meghal86•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vanity Domain Generator

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2•i3oi3•17m ago•1 comments

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1•blizow•17m ago•0 comments

SF's Tech Right Debates the Ideal Dictator

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3•hliyan•21m ago•3 comments

What do you think about elastic workload?

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1•k82cn•22m ago•0 comments

Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold from US citing 'geopolitical unrest'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/03/netherlands-gold-dutch-central-bank-uk-us-and-canad...
5•Jimmc414•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Review-to-rule – Turn accepted review feedback into durable repo rules

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1•vamgan•30m ago•0 comments

The Loose: The Coming of Useless Agents

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1•jjwiseman•32m ago•0 comments

Toxic haze from Indonesia spreads to Malaysia and Philippines as wildfires rage

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1•blondie9x•32m ago•0 comments

We analyzed the code published by 29 frontier AI labs. Here's the data

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1•nassirkhan•34m ago•0 comments

Phased Behaviour in Wrapture

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1•lumpa•34m ago•0 comments

The mission to reach Nepal's underground 'Goldilocks zones'

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2•CHB0403085482•34m ago•0 comments

Literate Programming with LLMs? – A Study on Rosetta Code and CodeNet

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1•gurjeet•38m ago•0 comments

Load-Bearing People

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2•Garbage•44m ago•0 comments

Frontier Act – Federal oversight of the development of frontier AI

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3•cco•51m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Indicate: Transliterate Indic Languages with PyTorch and LLMs

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1•neehao•54m ago•0 comments

Reactor Live

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1•willemhelmet•56m ago•0 comments

An Inflection Point for Prediction Markets

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1•paulpauper•57m ago•0 comments

How to Evaluate Diet Gurus

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2•paulpauper•1h ago•0 comments

Rootnet: Exponentially Accelerate Advancing the Frontier

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1•koopuluri•1h ago•0 comments

Wk. 6 of Vibecoding an MMO

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8•josiahturnq•1h ago•7 comments

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it

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3•teleforce•1h ago•0 comments

To opt out of using your X data for Grok training

https://twitter.com/grok/status/2007729382429761905
1•andsoitis•1h ago•0 comments

Late-life semaglutide slows ageing and extends lifespan in female mice

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10940-7
1•sbulaev•1h ago•1 comments

What is neuralese and why is it bad?

https://linch.substack.com/p/what-is-neuralese
2•paulpauper•1h ago•0 comments