Yup. The site being advertised is proxied through Cloudflare, and they're also using Supabase.
Anyone from Cloudflare or Supabase care to remove your abusive customer? Also reported.
Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?
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#12So if it is possible with comments, does it mean it is possible with voting? I'm wondering how many posts recently came to main page upvoted by bots
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#13Is the GNAA alive and well???
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#14[dead]
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#15Yep, I am sure it happens but this is the first time I've actually seen it!
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#16Interesting that this wasn’t baked in as a preventative method for repeat usernames. Which is also ironic because why would this guy reuse the same username for his little spam campaign when it can be nuked in one line of code… Amateur stuff. Never seen it happen before though!
Really wonder, if this kind of spam is the perfect application for an LLM based agent.
To be fair, this kind of spam seems like you could output it with a shellscript.
Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?
#17What we need now is the bot to post here and demonstrate a total lack of sense of irony.
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#18Per https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments the flood stopped 2 minutes ago.
Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?
#19At the end of each spam message there is a unique 15 character string. Anyone know what purpose the string is supposed to serve?
Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?
#20So if it is possible with comments, does it mean it is possible with voting? I'm wondering how many posts recently came to main page upvoted by bots
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