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Show HN: AI crawler honeypot – logs every agent that requests it

A new honeypot service, announced on Hacker News, logs and classifies every AI agent and web scraper request that hits its domain, offering public live telemetry of that traffic. The service says it preserves privacy by hashing visitor data with a daily cryptographic salt and never storing real client IP addresses.

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This service operates an automated honeypot designed to observe, measure, and analyze AI agent and web scraper requests across this domain. All incoming visits are classified for behavioral patterns while strictly preserving privacy through daily cryptographic salt hashing, with real client IP addresses never stored. You can inspect today's live telemetry or review our transparency disclosure below.

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