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Infra2026-08-02 · source-backed
A Tell HN post describes a fake git repo with fabricated HTTP endpoints, its address hidden only inside an HTML comment. Amazon Searchbot IPs began requesting the fake endpoints embedded in a shell script. Commenters noted robots.txt has no legal force and that ASN-level blocking against the published AWS ip-ranges.json is the practical remedy. The transferable trick is the honeypot: planting unreachable endpoints is a cheap way to prove a crawler is parsing your content, not just fetching it.
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Hugging Face partners with AWS / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension
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AWS partners with Coinbase / Shared entities / Earlier coverage
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AWS released Amazon Bedrock / Shared entity: AWS / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
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OpenAI partners with AWS / Shared entity: AWS / Earlier coverage / Tension
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AWS released Amazon Bedrock / Shared entity: AWS / Earlier coverage / Tension
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