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		wizard_2 on April 28, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: A url-based API for images (my weekend pr... Please explain this, I'm not sure what kind of activity you're talking about.

RKearney on April 29, 2013 [–]

Here's the article I read that lead me to write that comment.

http://phoboslab.org/log/2013/02/how-much-traffic-is-too-muc...

Essentially the site was just one html page that had endless scrolling and loaded hundreds of images. CloudFlare declared the site as being under a "Layer 7 Attack" even though it wasn't.

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