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shagie · 2026-10-28T17:04:05.000Z

From historical posts on HN:

Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805 (8 months ago, 366 points, 178 comments)

Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 (9 months ago, 140 points, 71 comments)

consumer451 · 2026-10-28T20:54:53.000Z

For everyone's information: r/Seattle's mod team has stickied this technical debrief in response to this HN post. We are the "external site" that is kinda brigading them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1xhf6qp/archivetod...

opello · 2026-10-28T21:13:22.000Z

The only thing I'd add is that I see redirects to at least two domains:

    https://stolidityseashellshotter.com/ezrsb5dd1268e6f6ebaad42916d5d87b8133c0816d3e7
    https://gullible-thanks.com/w5FDGi

no-name-here · 2026-10-28T18:55:09.000Z

> DDoS

I presumed DDoS was used colloquially, but no, they literally added JS so every visitor made a request every 0.3 seconds to that blog server, in response to a blog article. Wholly malicious based on the reporting.

Vaushite · 2026-10-28T21:16:49.000Z

Wasn't the "victim" trying to get the "attacker" life in prison for the crime of archiving public information?

oytis · 2026-10-28T21:29:08.000Z

Yeah, everyone is freaking out about the (not very efficient as I can see) DDoS attempt, but it was a response to a totally unprovoked attempt to deanon the maintainer which could cost them freedom at least - and us all the only more or less reliable paywall remover.