Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?

#381

Post by SEXMCNIGGA45896 » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 11:11 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?

#382

Post by krapp » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 11:11 PM UTC

MrFoof wrote: post #372

Would love to see a postmortem once it's dealt with.

This forum is built with early 2000s technology. It doesn't even use two-factor authentication or captchas for creating accounts. This was honestly bound to happen sooner or later.

Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?

#383

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 11:11 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?

#384

Post by mysteria » Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 11:12 PM UTC

What a mess, this is literally the first time I saw something like this on HN. They've even started posting on this thread! HN has been running slow since the flood started and I wonder if it's causing a mini-DDoS effect.

The usernames of the spammers are "2genders", "SEXMCNIGGA", and "indianmilf"; for some strange reason they keep the same prefix and just alter the number so it should be easy for admins to block them. Some of them are posting Twitter links as well.