[rjst01]

One day I will give a lighting talk about the load bearing teapot, or how and why I made HTTP Status 418 a load bearing part of an internal API, and why it was the least bad option considering the constraints.

[renewiltord]

It’s a classic. Binance will give you 429 errors to back off then 418s to tell you you will be IP banned and then they’ll ban you.

[hinkley]

Google’s spiders will punish you for giving them too many 429 responses. It’s hell for hosting sites with vanity urls. They can’t tell they’re sending you 50+ req/s.

It’s practically a protection racket. Only AWS gets the money.

[wbl]

50 requests/sec? Did you forget a few zeros?

[hinkley]

Little’s law is a bitch, and you can get away with a little throttling but not much.

Also, that’s a bit dismissive for HN.