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Infra2026-08-31 · source-backed
Konstantin Ryabitsev published numbers on August 29: git.kernel.org takes about 6M daily requests for random commits, and 14 to 16 of its 90 cores across five geo-distributed nodes are permanently occupied rendering commits as HTML for crawlers. The escalation ladder is the useful part for anyone running a public site. User-agent bans failed, then IP bans, then ASN bans, and now crawlers arrive from millions of residential and mobile IPs through proxy SDK monetization, 4 to 5 requests each. Anubis proof-of-work held for months at difficulty 4, then 5, and today 33% of requests solve the challenge and get through anyway.
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