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by tomhow 1y ago

man_is_obsolete 1y ago
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- thekevan 1y ago
  And just what is the purpose of AI generated replies? Especially with the obvious user name.
  - Moosdijk 1y ago
    and the account being 1 hour old (at this time)
  - einpoklum 1y ago
    So, you're saying... man is not obsolete then? 8-|
man_is_obsolete 1y ago
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hwmrocker 1y ago
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Omarbev 1y ago
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startyz 1y ago
sounds very cool. Good luck!
blibble 1y ago
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- WhyIsItAlwaysHN 1y ago
  Or like a go beginner, which is fine
  - OtherShrezzing 1y ago
    Scanning around their other repositories the persons been programming for a few years now. There are ‘.cursor/rules’ directories in some recent repos. I think it’s a reasonable hypothesis that “I wrote a BitTorrent client from scratch” may be “I produced a BitTorrent client from cursor”.
- spuz 1y ago
  Yes, very strange. There's no problem with using AI to build your first app and leaving the generated comments in the code is fine. But the number of comments on this thread that begin "This is so cool" is very suspicious.
  - throwaway894345 1y ago
    It doesn't seem wild to me that people would post "This is cool" on a ShowHN post. I did [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44265915 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44265915), and as far as I'm aware, I'm not an AI. Would you like more information about how to identify AI comments? (kidding)
- diagraphic 1y ago
  "convert length string into an integer" is a machine generated comment? I've been writing code for 15+ years, this made me laugh my ass off. Comments are great, I don't read comments but I write them for others, especially for open source code. Atoi may be something you and I and a whole bunch of others know but people who don't it's a fine comment. Relax! :)
  - rvnx 1y ago
    In the tests it more obvious: You can see here for example: https://github.com/piyushgupta53/go-torrent-client/commit/6130f4ef17d38499ec5d6d3595cf12f9e8146908#diff-1c321a139f6e79fc37f31a331368b8db7ea6eea990e4c1c789087488ebdb6445 https://github.com/piyushgupta53/go-torrent-client/commit/61... and some strings coming from crawled resources like: lengthi12345e4 but slightly different tokens (like 25 instead of 35 etc). Gemini Pro 2.5 even gave me the prompt: > If you asked me, "Generate Go unit tests for a Bencode decoder function called Decode that takes an io.Reader and returns an interface{} and an error. Cover strings, integers, lists, and dictionaries, including common error cases and nested structures" the output I would strive to produce would look very much like the code you've shown. > It's a good example of well-written Go tests, and that's the kind of pattern I've learned to recognize and replicate. and a lot actually matches when you ask from a fresh conversation. So most likely Cursor + Gemini 2.5 Pro, but I cannot blame, I spend 100% of my time with Claude, and I take ownership of the code.
diagraphic 1y ago
Clean code! Very nice :)
ivanjermakov 1y ago
No seeding, no DHT, no magnet links, no uTP, no extensions. At this stage it is BitTorrent downloader, not a client. Using P2P networks in download-only mode, so called leeching or free-riding, is discouraged.
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Moosdijk 1y ago
what's up with the amount of new accounts praising this project?
- blibble 1y ago
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  - alexpadula 1y ago
    I always wondered how the heck do people get away with that. HN mods lacking allowing those sort of projects to the top and legit bot likes and comments. Craziness. Put's all the projects and posts worthy of eyes to the dead bottom.
    - fragmede 1y ago
      some people don't, but there's survivorship bias at play here. whenever you suspect foul play, email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com, they're quite responsive
      - alexpadula 1y ago
        Thank you for the info! Much appreciated fragmede :)
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  - pvg 1y ago
    You're probably getting downvoted because there are local conventions against astroturfing/shillage/botting accusations described in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html If you think there's something wrong with the post email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com
- ivanjermakov 1y ago
  Seems like someone (OP or not) is testing how good they can use HN for free advertisement.

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by tomhow 1y ago

Stub for offtopicness

man_is_obsolete 1y ago

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thekevan 1y ago
And just what is the purpose of AI generated replies? Especially with the obvious user name.
- Moosdijk 1y ago
  and the account being 1 hour old (at this time)
- einpoklum 1y ago
  So, you're saying... man is not obsolete then? 8-|

man_is_obsolete 1y ago

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hwmrocker 1y ago

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Omarbev 1y ago

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startyz 1y ago

sounds very cool. Good luck!

blibble 1y ago

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WhyIsItAlwaysHN 1y ago
Or like a go beginner, which is fine
- OtherShrezzing 1y ago
  Scanning around their other repositories the persons been programming for a few years now. There are ‘.cursor/rules’ directories in some recent repos. I think it’s a reasonable hypothesis that “I wrote a BitTorrent client from scratch” may be “I produced a BitTorrent client from cursor”.
spuz 1y ago
Yes, very strange. There's no problem with using AI to build your first app and leaving the generated comments in the code is fine. But the number of comments on this thread that begin "This is so cool" is very suspicious.
- throwaway894345 1y ago
  It doesn't seem wild to me that people would post "This is cool" on a ShowHN post. I did [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44265915 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44265915), and as far as I'm aware, I'm not an AI. Would you like more information about how to identify AI comments? (kidding)
diagraphic 1y ago
"convert length string into an integer" is a machine generated comment? I've been writing code for 15+ years, this made me laugh my ass off. Comments are great, I don't read comments but I write them for others, especially for open source code. Atoi may be something you and I and a whole bunch of others know but people who don't it's a fine comment. Relax! :)
- rvnx 1y ago
  In the tests it more obvious: You can see here for example: https://github.com/piyushgupta53/go-torrent-client/commit/6130f4ef17d38499ec5d6d3595cf12f9e8146908#diff-1c321a139f6e79fc37f31a331368b8db7ea6eea990e4c1c789087488ebdb6445 https://github.com/piyushgupta53/go-torrent-client/commit/61... and some strings coming from crawled resources like: lengthi12345e4 but slightly different tokens (like 25 instead of 35 etc). Gemini Pro 2.5 even gave me the prompt: > If you asked me, "Generate Go unit tests for a Bencode decoder function called Decode that takes an io.Reader and returns an interface{} and an error. Cover strings, integers, lists, and dictionaries, including common error cases and nested structures" the output I would strive to produce would look very much like the code you've shown. > It's a good example of well-written Go tests, and that's the kind of pattern I've learned to recognize and replicate. and a lot actually matches when you ask from a fresh conversation. So most likely Cursor + Gemini 2.5 Pro, but I cannot blame, I spend 100% of my time with Claude, and I take ownership of the code.

diagraphic 1y ago

Clean code! Very nice :)

ivanjermakov 1y ago

No seeding, no DHT, no magnet links, no uTP, no extensions. At this stage it is BitTorrent downloader, not a client. Using P2P networks in download-only mode, so called leeching or free-riding, is discouraged.

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Moosdijk 1y ago

what's up with the amount of new accounts praising this project?

blibble 1y ago
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- alexpadula 1y ago
  I always wondered how the heck do people get away with that. HN mods lacking allowing those sort of projects to the top and legit bot likes and comments. Craziness. Put's all the projects and posts worthy of eyes to the dead bottom.
  - fragmede 1y ago
    some people don't, but there's survivorship bias at play here. whenever you suspect foul play, email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com, they're quite responsive
    - alexpadula 1y ago
      Thank you for the info! Much appreciated fragmede :)
  - deleted 1y ago
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- pvg 1y ago
  You're probably getting downvoted because there are local conventions against astroturfing/shillage/botting accusations described in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html If you think there's something wrong with the post email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com
ivanjermakov 1y ago
Seems like someone (OP or not) is testing how good they can use HN for free advertisement.