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sibuna

Proof-of-work admission and a bounded web application firewall with an opt-in management console.

2Distinct people
8Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
43GitHub stars
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What it is

Proof-of-work admission and a bounded web application firewall with an opt-in management console.

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Where it is used

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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 day8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-10-03 09:58:20 UTC to 2026-10-31 00:50:09 UTC.

0122026-10-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsOct 32026-10-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsOct 172026-10-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-10-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-10-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 31

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What Hacker News says

8 sources
In the spirit of open source thought about it and created sibuna (https://github.com/insanai/sibuna) It works similar to cloudflare WAF but is an open source software. It can be on your own infrastructures even if its a $5 VPS. The idea is same let the bot or AI agent do more work than it takes to serve that request. Also it needs to follow rules, similar to cloudflare enterprise web application firewalls. It was OWASP CRS and J4A TLS support.
In Websites are closing their doors to AI agents

Show HN: Sibuna an open source web application firewall with proof of work

Hi HN, We are building an open source web application firewall Sibuna to have more control over automated traffic from AI bots and crawlers. Sibuna runs as a reverse proxy or alongside an existing ingress through forward-auth. It includes application inspection, OWASP CRS support and a wasm based management console. Please try it, and give us feedback for improvements. Github Project: https://github.com/insanai/sibuna
4 points · Open discussion

Show HN: Sibuna an open source web application firewall with proof of work

Hi HN, We are building an open source web application firewall Sibuna to have more control over automated traffic from AI bots and crawlers. Sibuna runs as a reverse proxy or alongside an existing ingress through forward-auth. It includes application inspection, OWASP CRS support and a wasm based management console. Please try it, and give us feedback for improvements. Github Project: https://github.com/insanai/sibuna
1 points · Open discussion

Show HN: Sibuna OSS simple web application firewall with proof of work

Hi HN, We are building an open source web application firewall Sibuna to have more control over automated traffic from AI bots and crawlers. Sibuna runs as a reverse proxy or alongside an existing ingress through forward-auth. It includes application inspection, OWASP CRS support and a wasm based management console. Please try it, and give us feedback for improvements. Github Project: https://github.com/insanai/sibuna
1 points · Open discussion
I would understand if its by error but based on how it was banned it did feel deliberate. Also I have written email to core member before making a decision to leave the community. I think a community can only thrive when they are nice to humans. Here it felt like zig is worse then a oligopoly where few core members can block anyone without any reason and don't even have a courtesy to send a message. I worked with python community since its beginning, same worked with linux community since 1992, never seen such attitude even though both of the projects were driven by benevolent dictators, but they did care about the community around it. I still have one major work [1] in zig, which I will still release but after this won't work on zig. Zig community felt like a hostile ologipoly of few core members without proper due process, when it comes
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to treating humans. [1] https://github.com/insanai/sibuna
In Zig v0.17.0

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