> I think it’s a healthy thing to read other’s opinions, even if you disagree with it. HN does a good job of keeping the trolls out.

I like to think world class nits are picked here but you're right - this is one of the more rational neighborhoods.

> I wish I could implement something similar at work, in where I constantly have bots trying to login to my corporate VPN.

I kludged some bash together to grep the logs and give me IP hit-counts and network owners. I next struggled to make decisions about the IPs - due to 1) the prevalence of residential proxies and 2) learning one of our widgets refreshes 3x/min.