LLM Scraper Bots Are Overloading acme.com's HTTPS Server — 54 Points, 52 Comments on Infrastructure Impact

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The company acme.com posted a public update documenting how LLM training and retrieval scrapers are overwhelming their HTTPS infrastructure. The HN discussion (54 points, 52 comments — nearly 1:1 ratio) reveals practitioners debating the real-world cost of AI crawling on smaller web properties. This is another data point in the growing pattern of AI bot traffic degrading service for real users, following similar stories from Wikipedia and other sites.