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August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem

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  1. infotainment · · focus · HN ↗
    > I recently added a new feature to The Cutting Room Floor: If you visit the site with a “Claude-code” user agent… it adds you to a Claude user ban list. Then, if you try and visit the site later, without Claude — maybe because you wanted to investigate the “prompt injection” page it received — you’re greeted with a special error page telling you to get out

    This guy sounds like he has spent way too much time online getting angry at imaginary enemies, and really needs to get outside and talk to some real people outside of his filter bubble.

    I actually enjoy reading TCRF, so it’s unfortunate that the owner is apparently a terminally online insane person.

    1. madiling · · focus · HN ↗
      Interestingly, you could (can?) get banned from TCRF if you opened it using a link from certain websites. And you would get a unique ban message based on which website you came from.
      1. InvisibleUp · · focus · HN ↗
        “certain websites” being Kiwi Farms, iirc. And that’s entirely because of the harassment thread they have there.
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