Toronto14 CPU cores render commit pages nonstop.

The infrastructure behind nearly every server’s operating system pays this bill.

AI crawlers ignore robots.txt, rotating IPs to reharvest 1.48 million commits across 922 duplicate forks.

Maintainers can block scraper IPs, but have no way to bill anyone for the load.

How each outlet framed it
Hacker News leans critical
quantifies resource drain precisely: 14 CPU cores permanently rendering commits for scrapers, consuming more cycles than all git clones

Sources: Hacker News