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Website flooded with AI bot traffic after Hacker News post

Sammy Straus, developer of the customizable feed reader Sprinklz.io, experienced a sudden surge of AI bot traffic to his website after posting about the tool on Hacker News.
14 Oct, 12:05 am IST
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AI · 2 min
About half of Hacker News top stories focus on or use AI in 2026

As of June 2026, approximately 50% of daily top stories on Hacker News are either about artificial intelligence or generated by AI, according to a blog post on blog.coredump.cx.
25 Aug, 11:28 pm IST

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Website flooded with AI bot traffic after Hacker News post

About half of Hacker News top stories focus on or use AI in 2026