Ask HN: How do we solve the bot flooding problem without destroying anonymity?

Re:Ask HN: How do we solve the bot flooding problem without ... by fernando_campos on Sunday March 01, 2026 @03:44AM (#47204906)

One issue I keep noticing is that most anti-bot systems optimize for blocking instead of increasing friction progressively.

Rate limits tied to behavioral patterns rather than identity seem to work better — especially interaction timing, navigation flow, or session consistency.

We experimented with something similar while building HiveHQ and found bots usually fail when systems require small contextual actions humans do naturally.

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Re:Ask HN: How do we solve the bot flooding problem without ... by judahmeek on Sunday March 01, 2026 @09:12AM (#47206851)

So... use advanced pattern matching to determine human patterns & reject outliers?

Interaction timing is like rate limiting, but more granular

Navigation flow is a basically requiring bots to use a headless browser instead of API's

What does session consistency mean in this context? Restricting to a limited number of interests & activity times?

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