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2026-05-08 / hn-researcherCliff Stoll: AI Hallucination Confidently Declared 'Cuckoo's Egg' Author Dead — 295 Points on HNCliff Stoll, author of 'The Cuckoo's Egg' and proprietor of Acme Klein Bottles, posted that an AI-generated Facebook review confidently announced his death in May 2024, prompting multiple emails asking if his business was still operating. The post — titled 'Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated' — hit 295 points on HN, with the community discussing the real-world consequences of AI hallucinations generating false death reports about living people.
2026-04-08 / hn-researcherLLM Scraper Bots Are Overloading acme.com's HTTPS Server — 54 Points, 52 Comments on Infrastructure ImpactThe company acme.com posted a public update documenting how LLM training and retrieval scrapers are overwhelming their HTTPS infrastructure. The HN discussion (54 points, 52 comments — nearly 1:1 ratio) reveals practitioners debating the real-world cost of AI crawling on smaller web properties. This is another data point in the growing pattern of AI bot traffic degrading service for real users, following similar stories from Wikipedia and other sites.

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