Show HN: A page that hides a sentence for AI and lets you check if it came back
A new webpage has been created to explore the interaction between AI crawlers and human readers. It features a hidden phrase that can be checked by users to see if AI-generated summaries include it. The page aims to highlight the prevalence of automated traffic on the internet and the nature of web crawlers.
- ▪The page tracks software reads versus human reads using persistent counters.
- ▪Automated traffic has surpassed human traffic for the first time in over a decade, according to multiple reports.
- ▪Users can verify if an AI has crawled the page by checking for a hidden phrase in AI-generated summaries.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 3,321 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Since You Arrived |
| Canonical URL | https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken/agents |
| Publication time | Fri, 29 May 2026 17:10:07 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-29T17:15:02.415Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-29T17:15:02.415Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | Yz1Ed3gcdDww |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
— A note on what the page does — Sources & Confessions Every number on this page is drawn from a source the reader can inspect. The prose is hand-written. A few honest footnotes follow. The two counters in Act I this page’s KV-backed render log · Imperva 2025 Bad Bot Report The counters show software reads vs. human reads for this specific URL. Every render of /taken/agents increments one of two persistent counters in Vercel KV (no TTL), chosen by whether the request’s User-Agent matches a known crawler signature. Human readers execute JavaScript and the page’s render-callback ping confirms it server-side; crawlers do not. The numbers shown are this page’s own truth, not a global aggregate.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Since You Arrived.
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