The topic was previously discussed on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945628 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945628 and the moderators have said t

The topic was previously discussed on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945628 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945628 and the moderators have said that generated comments are not permitted on HN: "They're already banned—HN has never allowed bots or generated comments. If we have to, we'll add that explicitly to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, but I'd say it already follows from the rules that are in there. We don't want canned responses from humans either!" Why they've never updated the guidelines page is a mystery.