Quick question but do these bots which you mention are from a 24H period but how long will this "attack" continue for?
replyBecause this is something which is happening continuously & i have observed so many HN posts like these (Anubis iirc was created by its creator out of such frustration too). Git servers being scraped to the point of its effectively an DDOS.
Yes, the attack is continuous. The rate fluctuates a lot, even within a day. It's definitely an anomaly, because eg. from 2025-08-15 to 2025-10-05 I saw zero days with more than 10k requests. Here's a histogram of the past 2 weeks plus today.
reply 2026-01-28 21'460
2026-01-29 27'770
2026-01-30 53'886
2026-01-31 100'114 #
2026-02-01 132'460 #
2026-02-02 73'933
2026-02-03 540'176 #####
2026-02-04 999'464 #########
2026-02-05 134'144 #
2026-02-06 1'432'538 ##############
2026-02-07 3'864'825 ######################################
2026-02-08 3'732'272 #####################################
2026-02-09 2'088'240 ####################
2026-02-10 573'111 #####
2026-02-11 1'804'222 ##################It's plausible that the AI companies have given up storing data for training runs and just stream it off the Internet directly now. It's probably cheaper to stream than buying more SSDs and HDDs from a supply constrained supply chain at this point.
replyThanks for sharing the data, This unpredictability and everything is even more suspicious.
replyThoughts on having an ssh server with https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve instead?