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AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

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770 points ta988 | 2 comments | 30 Dec 24 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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joshdavham ◴[30 Dec 24 17:27 UTC] No.42551384[source]▶
I deployed a small dockerized app on GCP a couple months ago and these bots ended up costing me a ton of money for the stupidest reason: https://github.com/streamlit/streamlit/issues/9673

I originally shared my app on Reddit and I believe that that’s what caused the crazy amount of bot traffic.

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jdndbsndn ◴[30 Dec 24 18:01 UTC] No.42551774[source]▶
The linked issue talks about 1 req/s?

That seems really reasonable to me, how was this a problem for your application or caused significant cost?

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1. acheong08 ◴[31 Dec 24 14:14 UTC] No.42558804[source]▶
1 req/s being too much sounds crazy to me. A single VPS should be able to handle hundreds if not thousands of requests per second. For more compute intensive stuff I run them on a spare laptop and reverse proxy through tailscale to expose it
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2. lanstin ◴[02 Jan 25 20:35 UTC] No.42578561[source]▶
Wow that really works? So cool. I should bring my VMs back in house. Spare laptops I have.