Thought on how to deal with AI crawlers
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- ▪Published onSeptember 24, 2026 Site Navigation Use dark themeUse light themeCurrent theme: Dark.Current theme: Light.Dark theme selected.
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Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 6,509 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Copepod |
| Canonical URL | https://copepod.dev/human-required |
| Publication time | Sat, 26 Sep 2026 06:48:42 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-26T07:11:00.391Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-26T07:11:00.391Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 9sDDLmRdUl1o · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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The Source Stream426 Human Required426 Human RequiredYou are absolutely right. Published onSeptember 24, 2026 Site Navigation Use dark themeUse light themeCurrent theme: Dark.Current theme: Light.Dark theme selected. Next: Light.Light theme selected. Next: Dark.EXEMPTIONS FOR AI AGENTS ARE ONLY VALID FOR THE DURATION OF THIS SINGLE AGENTIC TASK.Article navigationOn this pageSkip table of contentsOn this page402 Make Them Pay403 Boringly Forbidden410 What Content?418 Let's Be Friends423 Have Some XML426 Human Required429 Calm Down451 Go Full CCP On Them!FootnotesSkip table of contentsOn this page402 Make Them Pay403 Boringly Forbidden410 What Content?418 Let's Be Friends423 Have Some XML426 Human Required429 Calm Down451 Go Full CCP On Them!FootnotesHTTP has many apt response codes to…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Copepod.
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