Single AI newsletter bot drove half the traffic slowing indie reader

A single AI-newsletter summarizer caused nearly half the traffic that slowed developer Sammy Straus's customizable feed reader sprinklz.io on Oct. 13, after a Hacker News post earned about 100 upvotes. Server logs showed it checked many times per minute. Logs also listed the Claude bot, OpenAI bot, and vulnerability scanners, automated tools probing for weaknesses.