Moooooonitoring the Cow.txt Herd
pabs3
20 points
9 comments
April 11, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (6 comments)
pvinis
I know robots.txt, I know humans.txt. But I don't get cow.txt after reading the website.
gagik_co
Very amoosing. The cherry on top is that the backend is in Rust.
politelemon
Does this mean that Google participated? https://www.gstatic.com/cow.txt
RyJones
I wonder if Jeff Lawson (bovine) is involved.
ta8903
Not a big fan of the canonical cow.
mehmetkose
docs keep repeating the same thing over and over again