I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic

After posting a customizable feed reader to Hacker News, a developer experienced severe website slowdowns caused by AI bot traffic, particularly from a service that monitors website changes to create AI-generated newsletters. Upon investigation, the developer found that nearly half of the traffic came from a single source that wasn't even rendering the page, along with bots from Claude, OpenAI, and Google, which were subsequently blocked.