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Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots

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post #74

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The gzip idea is giving me goosebumps however this must be a solved problem, right? I mean, the client device can also send zip bombs so it sounds like it should be DDOS 101?

>I mean, the client device can also send zip bombs A GET request doesn't have a body. There's nothing to gzip.

GET requests usually don't have a body, but they can.

Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots

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post #157

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How can I do this to port scanners? They constantly scan my home network and my firewall complains.

You would probably want a honeypot to lure them in. But I wouldn't expect the output to go through an LLM, although I wouldn't be surprised if I was wrong. This stuff is just low level automated scanning looking for well known, easy exploits. Default credentials and stuff like that. A lot of it is trying to recruit hosts for illegal VPNs / proxies, DDOS service, and more scanning / propagation. My advice is to block…

There’s lots of stuff from china and other IPs I’ve traced to California that have cryptic text only landing pages.

Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots

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Library of Babel captivated me as a student learning programming for the first time. I couldn't even fathom how something like that could be made in real/virtual life. I understand it now, but I still aspire to recreate this site on my own one day. The story by Borges is amazing as well too

It has captivated me too. At one point I realized that the set of real numbers will probably do the same (or a creative use of the set of natural numbers).

Let me know if you’re interested in working on a Library of Babel OSS implementation ever, would love to share the work with someone as fascinated by the concept as I am!

waltzes_mobiles_0r@icloud.com

Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots

#185

First off, make a website defend mode that can be triggered to serve different content. Then, do the following: 1. Add a robots.txt, make it look like it's wordpress (Disallow: /wp-admin etc) 2. If any client requests /wp-admin, flag their IP ASN as bot. 3. If a client is a bot, send it a gzip bomb (100kB size, unpacked around 20GB), use Transfer-Encoding: gzip and Content-Encoding: gzip to also punish malicious web…

> 4. If a client is a bot, respond with higher latencies in the xx seconds range. Try to configure your webserver for use of QUIC (UDP) so that you are not DDoSing yourself.

Do bots even use QUIC? Either way, holding tcp state instead of udp state shouldn't be a big difference in 2024, unless you're approaching millions of connections.

Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots

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> Was the Sneed incident real ? You're not good at doxxing, Benjamin. You don't even know who the players of this game are. Maybe get outside and touch some grass once in a while? because being a bully online isn't something I would strive for in life.

i don't know who Benjamin is, and i am unfamiliar with anything you've done since, but fwiw i also recognized your name from the sneedacity incident. you're cooler than i remember you being.

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Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots

#189
post #79

Sell it to someone inexperienced who wants to pick up a high traffic website. Show the stats of visitors, monthly hits, etc. DO NOT MENTION BOTS. Easiest money you'll ever make. (Speaking from experience ;) )

> (Speaking from experience ;) ) Assuming you were the buyer. Did they also ran an add clicking scheme on it, to even further inflate their profit? https://github.com/CryptoidCoder/Selenium-Ad-Clicker

Is they were the buyer they'd have used ;(

Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots

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post #83
post #72

Fun. \\Your site is pretty big, but this one has you beat: http://www.googolplexwrittenout.com/ Contains downloadable PDF docs of googolplex written out in long form. There are a lot of PDFs, each with many pages.

Even Wikipedia has it comfortably beaten: 6,895,000+ articles + 1,433,000+ 記事 + 2 004 000+ статей + 1.983.000+ artículos + 2.950.000+ Artikel + 2 641 000+ articles + 1,446,000+ 条目 / 條目 + 1.886.000+ voci + ۱٬۰۱۵٬۰۰۰+ مقاله + 1.134.000+ artigos = 23387000 > 16^6 = 0xffffff+1

6^16 != 16^6
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