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Made a mistake reading this thread on Safari where I don't have the usual suspects blocked. Some guy read that this converts to paid and then a bunch of people
by arjie 8mo ago
Made a mistake reading this thread on Safari where I don't have the usual suspects blocked. Some guy read that this converts to paid and then a bunch of people just kept repeating it. A real lesson in how many people are simply repeating things without knowing anything.
- dizhn 8mo agoOne guy had a misunderstanding and it was corrected. The rest is saying that it's like a time limited trial at the end of which they are hoping to have you as a paid customer, which seems accurate.
- giobox 8mo agoRight? People worry about the amount of LLM slop comments appearing on hn, we humans often do an even better job of writing nonsense. Would be fascinating to see what percentage of hn users only ever read the post title and never the contents of the link.
- elxr 8mo agoHow do you block on HN?
- arjie 8mo agoI have a Chrome extension here https://overmod.org/ https://overmod.org/ with some lists of likes/dislikes. But these days you can trivially reimplement it yourself without the server and just using Chrome sync (or use the extension, it has local sync as well). If you want, point Claude Code at this repo of mine https://github.com/TechnologyBrotherhood/overmod-extension https://github.com/TechnologyBrotherhood/overmod-extension and it can pretty quickly write you a copy (it doesn't actually need the reference, but it might help skip some questions).
- elxr 8mo agoThanks, this'll be very useful.