Bot traffic from Yandex
- ID
- 34195
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 11 Oct 2026, 6:27 PM
- Fetched
- 13 Oct 2026, 3:46 AM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238?dateRange=7d
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 4.0
- Created
- 13 Oct 2026, 3:46 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developerssaas_founders
What happened
A Hacker News thread (640 points, 253 comments) links to Cloudflare Radar's 7-day bot-traffic view for autonomous system AS13238, associated with Yandex. The linked Radar page could not be read in this fetch: it returned Cloudflare's own bot-verification interstitial ('Performing security verification'), so no traffic numbers, percentages, or trend data from the dashboard are available here. The only concrete facts in hand are the ASN, the 7-day date range, the source URL, and the size of the discussion.
Why it matters
Nothing actionable can be extracted from this item as captured: the underlying Radar data never loaded, so there is no figure to compare against your own logs or to justify adding AS13238 to a blocklist. If you care about this, open the Radar link yourself and check whether the ASN shows up in your own server or CDN logs before changing any rules — the thread alone is not evidence about your traffic.
Discussion angle
The Radar page is itself behind a bot check, so we only have the thread's framing — worth asking who actually pulled numbers from Radar or their own logs, and what their own bot-traffic share from Yandex/AS13238 looks like, before treating this as a blocking decision.