Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Chris Siebenmann @cks@mastodon.social

11/29/2025, 4:16:22 AM

Public

Anti LLM crawler mischief

Blocking LLM crawlers with HTTP 4xx error pages? Why not provide them with a custom error page that contains links that lead to one of the nonsense generators of your choice, with said links saying prominently not to follow them.

On the other hand, I have no idea if common LLM crawlers follow links found on error pages, or if they just ignore the entire HTML text of the error page. Energetic people are encouraged to find out.

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