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Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers

80 mentions on Hacker News by 67 people: 8 stories, 72 comments · first 2025-03-18 · latest 2026-10-18

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  1. What's the difference with https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis ? Considering sibuna it's anubis backwards.
    comment by lezojeda · 2026-10-18 · in Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
  2. …were owned by Meta, it was not someone pretending to be them. Some other reports of this: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/1565 I ended up just fully closing connections with no response from these assholes on any URL.
    comment by dawidpotocki · 2026-10-05 · in Web Search API
  3. …presence is unwanted. [1]: https://blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-room-floor/self-hosting... [2]: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/pull/1895/commits/de2312... [3]: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/pull/1913
    comment by InvisibleUp · 2026-10-02 · in Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
  4. …This is likely what you’re seeing. Anubis is the one I’ve seen most often, but not the only one. https://github.com/techaroHQ/anubis
    comment by treesknees · 2026-09-19 · in Is startpage.com mining Bitcoin when you open it?
  5. …://altcha.org/docs/integration/proof-of-work-captcha/ Edit: this is already in discussion for Anubis: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/94
    comment by infp_arborist · 2026-08-31 · in Creepy Crawlies
  6. …(Cookie Policy, EULAs, etc). Even with "lighter" weight HTTP Firewall utilities such as Anubis ( https://github.com/techaroHQ/anubis ), the average user has to pay for other's (DDoSers) misdeeds. Now no one can visit a site without a…
    comment by initramfs · 2026-08-24 · in Why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers
  7. …takes a nontrivial amount of time. As an example of the level of debugging and the like required: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/pull/1684/changes/67621f... My office gets very warm when chromesweep runs. This is something that is…
    comment by xena · 2026-08-07 · in A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
  8. …tests, and be readable and concise. a reference for what needs to be met is in this repository. https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis Then let’s develop this more. turn this solver into a local HTTP server that can be given work in the…
    comment by drum55 · 2026-08-07 · in A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
  9. > that stupid anime girl who is on way too many open source web sites I assume you're referring to https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis . As I understand, this is a tool for blocking bot traffic and is sometimes used as DDOS protection. In…
    comment by done_lurking · 2026-07-29 · in Apple's hostile App Store rating system
  10. Adding the link to GitHub here if anyone is curious: https://github.com/techaroHQ/anubis
    comment by neya · 2026-07-26 · in Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers
  11. For what it's worth, Anubis supports LibreJS: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/web/build.sh#L...
    comment by xena · 2026-07-14 · in How the FSF sysadmins block botnets with reaction
  12. …current) web scrapers from AI companies. The README itselfs admit that this is an nuclear option. https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
    comment by hueho · 2026-06-18 · in I hate compilers
  13. Tell me the flags I'm missing then: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/Xe/wasm4/utils/wasm...
    comment by xena · 2026-06-18 · in I hate compilers
  14. Anubis: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis blog post (pretty sure I've seen it on HN before) on the topic: https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis.html
    comment by konart · 2026-06-14 · in Linux 7.1
  15. …has been exploding lately, for example, though I'm not sure if it auto-updates its rules at all: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis As to if it'd get enough interest: yea no idea at all. I wish you luck tho! Clearly there's a need for…
    comment by Groxx · 2026-06-05 · in Cloudflare CEO is lying to you about the bot traffic jump
  16. An organization I'm involved with has had to add Anubis ( https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis ) because of the recent wiki attacks from LLM scrapers. It's finally fixed our outages.
    comment by teaearlgraycold · 2026-05-20 · in Apparently Google hates us now
  17. …that clients do in systems like anubis actually had a way to directly benefit the author. [0]: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
    comment by wolttam · 2026-05-14 · in New agents.txt file found on DreamHost
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    Anubis weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers
    story by rzk · 2026-04-16 · 0 comments
  19. …10^6 was paid (work by the employees of the LLM companies). So roughly 10^12 remains unpaid. [0]: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
    comment by martin-t · 2026-04-13 · in European AI. A playbook to own it
  20. …least cause more friction by charging bot networks to execute in the form of energy or money. [0] https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
    comment by abetusk · 2026-03-14 · in Digg is gone again
  21. I have heard great things about Anubis, although I have not needed to use it myself: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
    comment by arcanemachiner · 2025-12-27 · in CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me) (2016)
  22. …here: I genuinely don't know what you're talking about. I'm referring to these default images: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/tree/main/docs/static/im... . Do you mean something different?
    comment by kstrauser · 2025-12-19 · in Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn)
  23. …it and doesn't patch at risk of JS execution on their origin. Audit your third-party dependencies! https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/security/advisories/GHSA... https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/security/advisories/GHSA...
    comment by da_grift_shift · 2025-12-18 · in We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
  24. …as webadmin it kills dynamic pages and that's why Proof of work aka CPU time captchas like Anubis https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis#user-content-anubis or BotID https://vercel.com/docs/botid are now everywhere. If only these AI crawlers…
    comment by cachius · 2025-12-12 · in GPT-5.2
  25. …look for answers and alternatives like BunnyCDN [0], Anubis [1], etc. [0] https://bunny.net/ [1] https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
    comment by colesantiago · 2025-11-19 · in Questions for Cloudflare
  26. …bot scraping of a forum taking all server resources, and using PoW challenge solved the problem. https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
    comment by watermelon0 · 2025-11-18 · in Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
  27. …of SHA-256 for speed. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SubtleCrypt... [1] https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/web/js/algorit... [2] https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/releases/tag/v1.22.0
    comment by aniviacat · 2025-11-02 · in You Don't Need Anubis
  28. …if it went closed-source. [0]: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/challeng... [1]: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/1121
    comment by gucci-on-fleek · 2025-11-02 · in You Don't Need Anubis
  29. …blocked by it (unlike Captchas or IP/ASN bans that have really high false-positive rates). [0]: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/1121
    comment by gucci-on-fleek · 2025-11-02 · in You Don't Need Anubis
  30. Thinking along the same lines a PoW check like like anubis[1] may work for OP as well. [1] https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
    comment by Orochikaku · 2025-10-17 · in Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?
  31. That's Anubis. A proof-of-work based protection against AI-Crawlers. https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
    comment by AnyTimeTraveler · 2025-09-21 · in Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system
  32. …for all of these. At my company, a mid-size enterprise, we once tried to do exactly that. WAF: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis CDN: Hetzner Nodes with Cache in Finnland, USA and GER RDS: Self-hosted MySQL from Bitnami EFS:…
    comment by randomtoast · 2025-08-31 · in Use One Big Server (2022)
  33. Well there's open source stuff like https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis; one doesn't need a top-down mandated solution coming from a corporation. In general Cloudflare has been pushing DRMization of the web for quite some time, and while I…
    comment by supriyo-biswas · 2025-08-29 · in The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
  34. They also suggest maybe “proof of React” would be better with a link to this rough proof of concept: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/pull/1038 Could someone explain how this would help stop scrapers? If you’re just running the page JS…
    comment by MBCook · 2025-08-28 · in Sometimes CPU cores are odd
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    Feat: Add 'Proof of React' Challenge
    story by TheFreim · 2025-08-26 · 0 comments
  36. …here. Definitely something that's important. An Anubis caddy plugin is in the works too! See https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/16 However anything in caddy would likely still be a plugin and non native
    comment by JsonCameron · 2025-08-22 · in Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol
  37. …for circumstances where you can't or won't use Cloudflare, Anubis is there for you. Source: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
    comment by nromiun · 2025-08-21 · in AI crawlers, fetchers are blowing up websites; Meta, OpenAI are worst offenders
  38. > My point is, cough up a few bucks for a license you chiselers. You mean this one? https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/LICENSE
    comment by murderfs · 2025-08-21 · in Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
  39. …This didn't scale and was prone to issues like in the OP. The modern version of Anubis as of PR https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/pull/749 uses a different flow. Minting a challenge generates state including 64 bytes of random data. This…
    comment by xena · 2025-08-21 · in Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
  40. ... looks like they did: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/pull/1004 , timestamped a few hours after your comment.
    comment by wging · 2025-08-21 · in Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
  41. Obviously the developer of Anubis thinks it is bypassing: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/978
    comment by nialv7 · 2025-08-20 · in Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
  42. …TecharoHQ/.github/commits/main/SECURITY.m... Copied to the root of the repo after the disclosure ref: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/1002#issuecomment...
    comment by david_allison · 2025-08-20 · in Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
  43. …3. https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/319#issuecom... 4. https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/964#issuecomment-...
    comment by tolmasky · 2025-08-18 · in Robots.txt is a suicide note (2011)
  44. Try opening a bug report? https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis?tab=readme-ov-file#suppo... Compared to Cloudflare and Google, you can actually talk to a human here and they might (I have no reason to believe the opposite) actually care…
    comment by Aachen · 2025-08-17 · in FFmpeg moves to Forgejo
  45. Anubis is MIT licensed so you should be able to modify it freely: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/LICENSE It would be very funny if they did that though.
    comment by madars · 2025-08-17 · in FFmpeg moves to Forgejo
  46. …But, Anubis uses the plain MIT license, so you can modify it to remove the branding yourself: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/LICENSE If Anubis used a license with that mascot requirement, it would not be free and open source.
    comment by commoner · 2025-08-17 · in FFmpeg moves to Forgejo
  47. It's Anubis[0], an AI crawler blocker. [0]: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
    comment by crote · 2025-08-17 · in FFmpeg moves to Forgejo
  48. That's anubis, an anti web crawler tool [0] [0]: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
    comment by rice7th · 2025-08-17 · in FFmpeg moves to Forgejo
  49. That is Anubis trying to get your browser to do proof of work: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
    comment by ericbarrett · 2025-08-17 · in FFmpeg moves to Forgejo
  50. …more clever ideas. [0] - https://letsencrypt.org/2025/07/01/issuing-our-first-ip-addr... [1] - https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
    comment by Bender · 2025-08-06 · in EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum