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benlivengood01/16/20251 replyview on HN

A little humorous; it's a 502 Bad Gateway error right now and I don't know if I am classified as an AI web crawler or it's just overloaded.


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marginalia_nu01/16/2025

The reason these types of slow-response tarpits aren't recommended is that you're basically building an instrument for denial of service for your own website. What happens is the server is the one that ends up holding a bunch of slow connections, many more so than any given client.