How do personal blogs deal with the HN hug of death? In this increasingly-utopian vision, I imagine that being more widespread than (paid) DDOS attempts. There won't be any money to be made (banks, Paypal, etc. won't trust the "parallel web") and with the proliferation of synthetic training data I'm not sure how useful a target a bunch of blogs and smallweb sites would be.

> I love the vision, but I do wonder how the parallel internet will deal with DDoS levels of bot traffic.

Something that makes it expensive to initiate a connection and cheap (relatively) to accept or reject would probably help. I think that’s a hard problem though.

Well, how does Tor or other services do it now?

Do you have any evidence if this? Qubes team disagrees with you.