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Comment by Imustaskforhelp | Hacker News Reader

Quick question but do these bots which you mention are from a 24H period but how long will this "attack" continue for?

Because this is something which is happening continuously & i have observed so many HN posts like these (Anubis iirc was created by its creator out of such frustration too). Git servers being scraped to the point of its effectively an DDOS.

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Yes, the attack is continuous. The rate fluctuates a lot, even within a day. It's definitely an anomaly, because eg. from 2025-08-15 to 2025-10-05 I saw zero days with more than 10k requests. Here's a histogram of the past 2 weeks plus today.

  2026-01-28     21'460
  2026-01-29     27'770
  2026-01-30     53'886
  2026-01-31    100'114  #
  2026-02-01    132'460  #
  2026-02-02     73'933
  2026-02-03    540'176  #####
  2026-02-04    999'464  #########
  2026-02-05    134'144  #
  2026-02-06  1'432'538  ##############
  2026-02-07  3'864'825  ######################################
  2026-02-08  3'732'272  #####################################
  2026-02-09  2'088'240  ####################
  2026-02-10    573'111  #####
  2026-02-11  1'804'222  ##################

Thanks for sharing the data, This unpredictability and everything is even more suspicious.

Thoughts on having an ssh server with https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve instead?

It's plausible that the AI companies have given up storing data for training runs and just stream it off the Internet directly now. It's probably cheaper to stream than buying more SSDs and HDDs from a supply constrained supply chain at this point.

That this is a plausible explanation is... beyond horrifying to me.

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