telnet -4 susam.net 8000

For example, one person here offers: > Our AI generates relevant, useful replies to selected mentions, that aim to genuinely help the original poster, and that include a subtle mention of your product.

and ProductHunt: https://wakatime.com/blog/67-bots-so-many-bots

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot

You can type it in a terminal with ctrl-g. It won't be displayed in most cases and if you've configured your terminal like me won't make a sound.

When I originally shared this in 2022, it was just a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30146019#30146451

I didn't expect it to get much attention, so I went with four beeps. I felt that a set of four beeps spread over three seconds would be long enough to grab my attention, even if I was busy with something else.

Also, as another commenter pointed out, a sequence of four beeps is distinctive enough that it doesn't get lost among the stray, ordinary beeps I might hear while working in a terminal or Emacs (like from hitting backspace or pressing ctrl+g, etc.).

Any, and only, nerds who were interested in web development incessantly "View Source"ed on every page that looked interesting. It was a major vector by which early-web frontend techniques spread themselves, and it was great: you could cut-and-paste the html, direct download the .css and other resources, and get an offline model of their site running for you to tinker with to learn their secrets. All the magic was out in the open (for those who cared to pull back the curtain), and the future seemed limitless.

  tail -F -n 0 /var/log/visitlog | while read ; do printf '\a' ; done

I just downloaded a click sound and I think I'm going to see if adding it drives me crazy.

https://joeldare.com/private-analtyics-and-my-raspberry-pi-4...

> When their bot accessed my site, I served it a tiny compressed file. Their server eagerly downloaded and decompressed it, only to unleash several gigabytes of chaos. Boom. Game over.

How did you know their bot would decompress it? I thought a bot would copy the HTML content of your article, maybe the images, and paste them on their own website. At no point does it involve editing or decompressing files?

Impressive animation, by the way—the number of bots is staggering.

In the current graphs, the x-axis represents the hour of the day in UTC. For example, the first graph shows 43 connections between 10:00 UTC and 11:00 UTC, 407 connections between 11:00 UTC and 12:00 UTC, and so on.

Previously, the first graph showed the number of hours elapsed since the experiment began (which started at 10:14 UTC). That's likely what you saw earlier today. After reading your question, I updated the graph to display the actual hour of the day (in UTC) instead of elapsed time, making the time of the day clearer. Thanks for the great question!