It’s been happening for hours and is killing site performance. It’s all from brand new accounts. I don’t why account creation hasn’t been turned off yet.
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#372Would love to see a postmortem once it's dealt with.
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#373This is a old, very effective move from the spammer's playbook.
If some entity protests effectively (penetrates the spammer's own anti-spam, anti-communication precautions), threaten to spam them harder. Then follow through. We're seeing some follow through, I reckon.
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#374It's the day after the YC application deadline, so my hypothesis is resources that would otherwise be dealing with these script kiddies spamming HN are spread thin at the moment...
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#380Site is effectively getting ddos’d right now