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Bots flooded my anti-bot startup with 55,000 fake signups


Bots flooded useHUMA — a bot-detection startup — with 55,000 fake signups. Honest post-mortem: the three root causes, the fix, and what we learned about rate limiting, dogfooding, and accidental circuit breakers.

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