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TurdF3rgusontoday at 2:20 AM1 replyview on HN

I visited and got the 401 but that doesn't mean whatever triggered it isn't automated.

The reasonable assumption to make when something changes that it had nothing to do with me. Because 99.99999% of the time, it didn't.


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ncallawaytoday at 3:47 AM

I dunno, if they got ID #15, and the site shut down immediately after (for everyone), it doesn’t seem like a crazy stretch.

Like, if a page gets hundreds of thousands of visitors, then your assumption is reasonable. For a page that might get dozens of visitors over its lifetime, it’s a much less certain assumption

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