I doubt that it's employees, but I agree that some of those accounts look like genAI and have banned them. All: (1) Generated comments aren't allowed on HN -

I doubt that it's employees, but I agree that some of those accounts look like genAI and have banned them. All: (1) Generated comments aren't allowed on HN - this rule predates LLMs but obviously applies even more now: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20%22generated%20comments%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... (2) If you see accounts that look like they're mostly posting genAI comments, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com. That's how I found my way to these cases.