There may actually be some utility here. LLM agents refuse to traverse the links. Tested with gemini-3-pro, gpt-5.2, and opus 4.5.
edit: gpt-oss 20B & 120B both eagerly visit it.
devsda 21 minutes ago [-]
I wish this came a day earlier.
There is a current "show your personal site" post on top of HN [1] with 1500+ comments. I wonder how many of those sites are or will be hammered by AI bots in the next few days to steal/scrape content.
If this can be used as a temporary guard against AI bots, that would have been a good opportunity to test it out.
This is fun. Is it not checking for previously submitted URLs though? I can seemingly re-submit the exact same URL and get a new link every time. I would expect this to fill the database unnecessarily but I have no idea how the backend works.
Saw this on relaunched Digg and figured HN would appreciate it.
koakuma-chan 3 hours ago [-]
I don't appreciate how AI generated this website looks.
nimih 1 hours ago [-]
It seems appropriate that, for a website whose purpose is to make links which raise your suspicions, the visual design itself also raises your suspicions.
olyjohn 1 hours ago [-]
Just looks like every other generic framework oriented site.
4k93n2 2 hours ago [-]
which bit are you getting an AI smell from?
koakuma-chan 2 hours ago [-]
gradient background, card, button
Alupis 2 hours ago [-]
Perhaps, but nearly every tutorial in all the modern frameworks demonstrate this exact style.
bundie 1 hours ago [-]
Digg is back?
Edit: looks like you need an invite code.
Bummer
fancychancy 3 hours ago [-]
Haha, it's fun. Just thinking, is there some place where creepy links would be better ?
AnotherGoodName 3 hours ago [-]
I've been at a company that internally sends out fake links that log the user and links to an educational page on internet safety.
I honestly don't mind too much since it's a once a year thing (hacktober) and honestly companies should be trying to catch out employees who click any and all links.
trollbridge 1 hours ago [-]
We used to have fun hammering millions of requests to such URLs from a VPS when they would send such emails to role mailboxes.
Eventually we got asked to please make it stop. I asked them to please stop sending fake phishing emails to robots.
I added google.com and it spit out https://twitterDOTc1icDOTlink/install_Jy7NpK_private_videoDOTzip
Interesting that it spit out a .zip url. Was not expecting that so I changed all the “.” to “DOT” so I don’t get punished for posting a spammy link despite this literally being a website to make links as spammy and creepy as possible.
fuddle 1 hours ago [-]
lol, I'm not clicking a .vbs link
CrimsonCape 3 hours ago [-]
It is hilarious and i'm not clicking any link lol.
hnst1 3 hours ago [-]
[dead]
pabs3 2 hours ago [-]
Please don't make any more URL shorteners, they are just a bad idea.
I always end up making my own, they're so simple to write.
Saves using one of the "free" ones which looks like its free but you're actually on a free trial, then you can't access your links after that trial expires.
edit: gpt-oss 20B & 120B both eagerly visit it.
There is a current "show your personal site" post on top of HN [1] with 1500+ comments. I wonder how many of those sites are or will be hammered by AI bots in the next few days to steal/scrape content.
If this can be used as a temporary guard against AI bots, that would have been a good opportunity to test it out.
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618714
https://jpmorgan.c1ic.link/logger_zcGFC2_bank_xss.docm
Definitely not meta
I love this version and I hope you do too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31386108
https://wellsfargo.c1ic.link/TODO_obfuscate_url_8wyS7G_hot_s...
https://c1ic.link/campaign_WxjLdF_login_page_2.bat
You seem to be able to encode arbitrary text, so long as it follows [A-Za-z0-9]+\.[A-Za-z0-9]+
And got: https://c1ic.link/account_kPvfG7_download_now.bat
https://c1ic.link/ad_k9OFWW_redeem_gift.bat
Edit: looks like you need an invite code.
Bummer
I honestly don't mind too much since it's a once a year thing (hacktober) and honestly companies should be trying to catch out employees who click any and all links.
Eventually we got asked to please make it stop. I asked them to please stop sending fake phishing emails to robots.
And got https://twitter.web-safe.link/root_4h3ku0_account_verificati...
Interesting that it spit out a .zip url. Was not expecting that so I changed all the “.” to “DOT” so I don’t get punished for posting a spammy link despite this literally being a website to make links as spammy and creepy as possible.
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam
Saves using one of the "free" ones which looks like its free but you're actually on a free trial, then you can't access your links after that trial expires.