Put some sort of grammatically-incorrect text on each page, so it fucks with the weights of whatever they are training.
Alternatively, sell text space to advertisers as LLM SEO
Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
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Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
#22This is a bit of a stretch of how you are defining sub-pages. It is a single page with calculated content based on URL. I could just echo URL parameters to the screen and say that I have infinite subpages if that is how we define thing. So no - what you have is dynamic content. Which is why I'd answer your question by recommending that you focus on the bots, not your content. What are they? How often do they hit the…
Hey, maybe you are right, maybe some stats on which bots from how many IPs have how many hits per hour/day/week etc...
Thank's for the idea!
Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
#23As others have pointed out the calculation is 16^6, not 6^16.
By way of example, 00-99 is 10^2 = 100
So, no, not the largest site on the web :)
Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
#24Put some sort of grammatically-incorrect text on each page, so it fucks with the weights of whatever they are training. Alternatively, sell text space to advertisers as LLM SEO
Start a mass misinformation campaign or Opposite Day
Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
#25Clearly adjust glasses as an HN amateur color theorist[1] I am shocked and quite frankly appalled that you wouldn't also link to LAB, HSV, and CMYK equivalents, individually of course! /s
That should generate you some link depth for the bots to burn cycles and bandwidth on.
[1]: Not even remotely a color theorist
Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
#26This is a bit of a stretch of how you are defining sub-pages. It is a single page with calculated content based on URL. I could just echo URL parameters to the screen and say that I have infinite subpages if that is how we define thing. So no - what you have is dynamic content. Which is why I'd answer your question by recommending that you focus on the bots, not your content. What are they? How often do they hit the…
Huh, for some reason I assumed this was precompiled / statically generated. Not that fun once you see it as a single page.
Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
#27Unless your website has real humans visiting it, there's not a lot of value, I am afraid. The idea of many dynamically generated pages isn't new or unique. IPInfo[1] has 4B sub-pages for every IPv4 address. CompressJPEG[2] has lot of sub-pages to answer the query, "resize image to a x b". ColorHexa[3] has sub-pages for all hex colors. The easiest way to monetize is signup for AdSense and throw some ads on the page. […
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Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
#28Most bots are prob just following the links inside the page.
You could try serving back html with no links (as in no a-href), and render links in js or some other clever way that works in browsers/for humans.
You won’t get rid of all bots, but it should significantly reduce useless traffic.
Alternative just make a static page that renders the content in js instead of php and put it on github pages or any other free server.
Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
#29Return a 402 status code and tell users where they can pay you.
Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
#30Where does the 6^16 come from? There are only 16.7 million 24-bit RGB triples; naively, if you're treating 3-hexit and 6-hexit colours separately, that'd be 16,781,312 distinct pages. What am I missing?
I swear this thread turned me temporarily dyslexic: 16^6 is different to 6^16.
6 up 16 is a very large number.
16 up 6 is a considerably smaller number.
(I read it that way in my head since it's quicker to think without having to express "to the power of" internally)