Show HN: AI-drop project – drop traffic fast from misbehaving crawlers (AGPL)
Hello! All started with 4 million requests / day on rocketgit.com (AGPL git hosting). Instead of thousands. Enough is enough! Presentation (8 pages): https://rocketgit.com/user/catalinux/ai-drop/artefacts/downl... So, I built AI-drop free-software project (AGPL) to block this kind of crawlers. rocketgit.com has a very restrictive robots.txt (only around 10 pages are allowed). But the crawlers are not respecting it. So, who is not respecting it will be blocked. Limiting by IP or user-agent is not
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points · 2 votes
2026-11-13 21:06:26.845Z
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What changed
Source account: Hello! All started with 4 million requests / day on rocketgit.com (AGPL git hosting). Instead of thousands. Enough is enough! Presentation (8 pages): https://rocketgit.com/user/catalinux/ai-drop/artefacts/downl... So, I built AI-drop free-software project (AGPL) to block this kind of crawlers. rocketgit.com has a very restrictive robots.txt (only around 10 pages are allowed). But the crawlers are not respecting it. So, who is not respecting it will be blocked. Limiting by IP or user-agent is not
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Source votes: 2 votes (Nov 13, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication); previous same-scope observation: 2 (Nov 13, 2026 UTC). These observations do not establish demand growth. Recent records to compare: “Show HN: Portal2Bench – Can AI agents solve Portal 2?” (Hacker News, Nov 14, 2026); “Show HN: FrontierBioML – Can coding agents do ML for computational biology?” (Show HN, Nov 13, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
Who is affected
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Missing comparison points
Missing checks: old versus new behavior, affected plans and regions, availability date, compatibility, rollback path and cost under the same workload.
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