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Incidentally, this was first posted to a clone of HN that I run. I can't link it here, or in fact even mention the name. But if you go to my Twitter profile, it

Incidentally, this was first posted to a clone of HN that I run. I can't link it here, or in fact even mention the name. But if you go to my Twitter profile, it's my pinned tweet. So if you like reading this sort of thing, perhaps you'd also like seeing it 44 days before it premiers on HN. It was certainly one of the more interesting submissions. It was kind of funny, because the author posted it a bunch of times. I think maybe they got confused that they were on the real HN, and were like "This is awesome! It's been on the front page forever!" and posted it more. Wish I knew how to contact him to let him know it's been picked up by the mainstream site. He also posted "Neural network for automatic farm control", their previous work: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339105969_Neural_network_for_automatic_farm_control https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339105969_Neural_ne... They really love using neural networks for farming. Or for cannons. Either way, it's a worthy endeavor.

simonebrunozzi 6y ago
You can't post if because... it has happened before, and caused trouble? Curious to hear why you're running a clone of HN, and why you assert that some cool stuff shows up there before it does on HN.
- wishinghand 6y ago
  Self-promotion wrapped up in FOMO.
- hutzlibu 6y ago
  Well ... I think the person you replied to has a very troubled history with the staff of HN.
- 1MachineElf 6y ago
  I don't know why it cannot be shared here. Given the open source nature of PG's Arc and the fact that it's main repo comes with a HN clone, I'd be surprised if there was an impetus not to share forks of HN on here. But maybe the hesitancy to link the site has more to do with this statement on it's Welcome page: The initial impetus behind the site is a desire to try to recapture the early spirit of Hacker News. HN currently has about 5 million visitors a month. It's different than it was back in the day when it was a much smaller group of people.
  - sillysaurusx 6y ago
    I don't know either. I just wanted to build something interesting. /place, for example, is a clone of Reddit's old /r/place experiment, which was pretty hard to get Arc to do. https://i.imgur.com/0KZSel7.png https://i.imgur.com/0KZSel7.png But, I feel physically ill any time I mention it here, due to the risk. So I don't expect to talk about it again. It does kind of suck though. Arguably the only reason that this story is on HN right now is because it was posted there first, and subsequently discovered. But I'm just happy to contribute back to HN in some small way, since HN added a lot to my life. I wanted to thank you privately for your comment, but there's no contact info. So, thanks – truly. It meant a lot. I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
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simonebrunozzi 6y ago

You can't post if because... it has happened before, and caused trouble? Curious to hear why you're running a clone of HN, and why you assert that some cool stuff shows up there before it does on HN.

wishinghand 6y ago
Self-promotion wrapped up in FOMO.
hutzlibu 6y ago
Well ... I think the person you replied to has a very troubled history with the staff of HN.
1MachineElf 6y ago
I don't know why it cannot be shared here. Given the open source nature of PG's Arc and the fact that it's main repo comes with a HN clone, I'd be surprised if there was an impetus not to share forks of HN on here. But maybe the hesitancy to link the site has more to do with this statement on it's Welcome page: The initial impetus behind the site is a desire to try to recapture the early spirit of Hacker News. HN currently has about 5 million visitors a month. It's different than it was back in the day when it was a much smaller group of people.
- sillysaurusx 6y ago
  I don't know either. I just wanted to build something interesting. /place, for example, is a clone of Reddit's old /r/place experiment, which was pretty hard to get Arc to do. https://i.imgur.com/0KZSel7.png https://i.imgur.com/0KZSel7.png But, I feel physically ill any time I mention it here, due to the risk. So I don't expect to talk about it again. It does kind of suck though. Arguably the only reason that this story is on HN right now is because it was posted there first, and subsequently discovered. But I'm just happy to contribute back to HN in some small way, since HN added a lot to my life. I wanted to thank you privately for your comment, but there's no contact info. So, thanks – truly. It meant a lot. I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

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