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Yes, there's definitely a script at work. Compare these timestamps (hover over date): https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dwaxe%20eff&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0

Yes, there's definitely a script at work. Compare these timestamps (hover over date): https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dwaxe%20eff&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=pastWeek&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dwaxe%20eff&sort=byPopularity&... To the RSS feed: https://www.eff.org/rss/updates.xml https://www.eff.org/rss/updates.xml Humans don't post everything from an RSS feed within 10 minutes!

0x0 10y ago
Wouldn't it be funny if you added an RSS entry that linked to an otherwise unpublished page with the url path /i-am-a-bot-that-posts-to-hackernews with a matching title to go?
- cperciva 10y ago
  Looks like that worked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12673881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12673881
  - 0x0 10y ago
    Haha that's brilliant! Nice touch with the recursive link.
jacques_chester 10y ago
> Yes, there's definitely a script at work. Presumably to farm karma for some other purpose. I once observed that everything that shows up here eventually shows up in a particular cluster of subreddits and vice versa. Usually with a lag of 24-48 hours. I half-jokingly floated the idea that one could write a karma arbitrageur bot which cross posts between HN and those subreddits. I was told that I would be banned. Not just the bot: me.