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miasma

Trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit.

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5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.5KGitHub stars
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What it is

Trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by 6-hour interval5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-03-25 16:58:03 UTC to 2026-03-29 22:56:17 UTC.

0122026-03-25 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-25 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsMar 25, 12:002026-03-25 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-26 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-26 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-26 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-26 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-26 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-26 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-27 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-27 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-27 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-27 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-27 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 27, 12:002026-03-27 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-28 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-28 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-28 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-28 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-28 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-28 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-29 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-29 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-29 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-29 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-29 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-29 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 29, 18:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Mar 25, 12:002026-03-25 12:00:00 UTC2026-03-25 18:00:00 UTC211
Mar 25, 18:002026-03-25 18:00:00 UTC2026-03-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 26, 00:002026-03-26 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-26 06:00:00 UTC000
Mar 26, 06:002026-03-26 06:00:00 UTC2026-03-26 12:00:00 UTC000
Mar 26, 12:002026-03-26 12:00:00 UTC2026-03-26 18:00:00 UTC000
Mar 26, 18:002026-03-26 18:00:00 UTC2026-03-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 27, 00:002026-03-27 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-27 06:00:00 UTC000
Mar 27, 06:002026-03-27 06:00:00 UTC2026-03-27 12:00:00 UTC000
Mar 27, 12:002026-03-27 12:00:00 UTC2026-03-27 18:00:00 UTC000
Mar 27, 18:002026-03-27 18:00:00 UTC2026-03-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 28, 00:002026-03-28 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-28 06:00:00 UTC000
Mar 28, 06:002026-03-28 06:00:00 UTC2026-03-28 12:00:00 UTC110
Mar 28, 12:002026-03-28 12:00:00 UTC2026-03-28 18:00:00 UTC000
Mar 28, 18:002026-03-28 18:00:00 UTC2026-03-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 29, 00:002026-03-29 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-29 06:00:00 UTC000
Mar 29, 06:002026-03-29 06:00:00 UTC2026-03-29 12:00:00 UTC110
Mar 29, 12:002026-03-29 12:00:00 UTC2026-03-29 18:00:00 UTC000
Mar 29, 18:002026-03-29 18:00:00 UTC2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Poison Fountain: https://rnsaffn.com/poison2/ Poison Fountain explanation: https://rnsaffn.com/poison3/ Simple example of usage in Go: package main import ( "io" "net/http" ) func main() { poisonHandler := func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) { poison, err := http.Get("https://rnsaffn.com/poison2/") if err == nil { io.Copy(w, poison.Body) poison.Body.Close() } } http.HandleFunc("/poison", poisonHandler) http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil) } https://go.dev/play/p/04at1rBMbz8 Miasma Poison Fountain Tar Pit: https://github.com/austin-weeks/miasma Apache Poison Fountain: https://gist.github.com/jwakely/a511a5cab5eb36d088ecd1659fce... Nginx Poison Fountain: https://gist.github.com/NeoTheFox/366c0445c71ddcb1086f7e4d9c... Discourse P
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In Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit
Poison Fountain: https://rnsaffn.com/poison2/ Poison Fountain explanation: https://rnsaffn.com/poison3/ Simple example of usage in Go: package main import ( "io" "net/http" ) func main() { poisonHandler := func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) { poison, err := http.Get("https://rnsaffn.com/poison2/") if err == nil { io.Copy(w, poison.Body) poison.Body.Close() } } http.HandleFunc("/poison", poisonHandler) http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil) } https://go.dev/play/p/04at1rBMbz8 Miasma Poison Fountain Tar Pit: https://github.com/austin-weeks/miasma Apache Poison Fountain: https://gist.github.com/jwakely/a511a5cab5eb36d088ecd1659fce... Nginx Poison Fountain: https://gist.github.com/NeoTheFox/366c0445c71ddcb1086f7e4d9c... Discourse P
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In Miasma Poison Fountain Tar Pit

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