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It is really sad and unfortunate that coding has started falling under the omnicause. Low-denominator discourse is invading every space I find interesting and i

It is really sad and unfortunate that coding has started falling under the omnicause. Low-denominator discourse is invading every space I find interesting and it is difficult to avoid.

Hammershaft 5mo ago
I agree. I'm as skeptical as many commenters but I also think the degree of polarization in HN around this technology and the degree to which people are calling those with different views shills or naysayers is pretty sad.
arjie 5mo ago
I am having to blacklist a lot of commenters on this site because they are providing misinformation unnecessarily. There's all this garbage about "big flashy announcements" and so on when all the posts are by random people observing an internal detail of an open-source program's VCS or whatever. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073680 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073680 (seems like just a normal user - enthusiast at best) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132488 (this one seems suspicious - 2 year old user with this being their only submission ever and they have zero comments - anthropic could have submarined it but it's not a big flashy announcement) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150900 (this thread - user is anti-AI and anti-datacenter) But definitely the one thing these things aren't are big flashy announcement. To be honest, this kind of post-truth environment where people just make up things about people they don't like are super-lame. I've generally been able to deal with it by kill-filing people who post falsehoods but the number of users who do is getting so extraordinarily large I am starting to believe that I need to auto-hide anyone who created an account in the last 10 years.
- whimsicalism 5mo ago
  How do you blacklist commenters?
  - arjie 5mo ago
    I just wrote a Chrome extension to do it: https://overmod.org/ https://overmod.org/ But tbh this is trivial to write these days since the boilerplate can be written by the machines and you can just write the core functionality to make it work. I only have it public because I'm hoping others will also block users who misinform as a habit and I can subscribe to their lists and crib off their work without having to do it myself. If you want to save yourself the first 15 min of prompting, just point Claude Code at this https://github.com/TechnologyBrotherhood/overmod-extension https://github.com/TechnologyBrotherhood/overmod-extension and ask it to implement the local blocking functionality.
    - whimsicalism 5mo ago
      i was going to follow up with the same thought - it would be nice to have shareable blocklists à la bluesky
      - arjie 5mo ago
        Yeah, I suppose a nice fully featured protocol would use something decentralized, but that extension currently has them on my site. e.g. Another user made this one and I subscribe to it too: https://overmod.org/lists/view?pk=0STtY8mc3j6Pyaaf3YeKGHkcBK8MTMkUEwhVv78J5yk https://overmod.org/lists/view?pk=0STtY8mc3j6Pyaaf3YeKGHkcBK... I separate mine by a bunch of categories which might be a bit complicated, but I was hoping perhaps people might not care about some of the categories https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Overmod#My_Stuff https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Overmod#My_Stuff e.g. I don't like endless repetitious "but corporations" stuff and I also don't like "but they sell your data" repetitively but maybe others want to block category A but not category B. I think that wasn't a sound idea, though. Either people trust you to block for them as well or they don't.
dgellow 5mo ago
What do you mean by omnicause?

It is really sad and unfortunate that coding has started falling under the omnicause. Low-denominator discourse is invading every space I find interesting and it is difficult to avoid.

Hammershaft 5mo ago

I agree. I'm as skeptical as many commenters but I also think the degree of polarization in HN around this technology and the degree to which people are calling those with different views shills or naysayers is pretty sad.

arjie 5mo ago

I am having to blacklist a lot of commenters on this site because they are providing misinformation unnecessarily. There's all this garbage about "big flashy announcements" and so on when all the posts are by random people observing an internal detail of an open-source program's VCS or whatever. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073680 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073680 (seems like just a normal user - enthusiast at best) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132488 (this one seems suspicious - 2 year old user with this being their only submission ever and they have zero comments - anthropic could have submarined it but it's not a big flashy announcement) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150900 (this thread - user is anti-AI and anti-datacenter) But definitely the one thing these things aren't are big flashy announcement. To be honest, this kind of post-truth environment where people just make up things about people they don't like are super-lame. I've generally been able to deal with it by kill-filing people who post falsehoods but the number of users who do is getting so extraordinarily large I am starting to believe that I need to auto-hide anyone who created an account in the last 10 years.

whimsicalism 5mo ago
How do you blacklist commenters?
- arjie 5mo ago
  I just wrote a Chrome extension to do it: https://overmod.org/ https://overmod.org/ But tbh this is trivial to write these days since the boilerplate can be written by the machines and you can just write the core functionality to make it work. I only have it public because I'm hoping others will also block users who misinform as a habit and I can subscribe to their lists and crib off their work without having to do it myself. If you want to save yourself the first 15 min of prompting, just point Claude Code at this https://github.com/TechnologyBrotherhood/overmod-extension https://github.com/TechnologyBrotherhood/overmod-extension and ask it to implement the local blocking functionality.
  - whimsicalism 5mo ago
    i was going to follow up with the same thought - it would be nice to have shareable blocklists à la bluesky
    - arjie 5mo ago
      Yeah, I suppose a nice fully featured protocol would use something decentralized, but that extension currently has them on my site. e.g. Another user made this one and I subscribe to it too: https://overmod.org/lists/view?pk=0STtY8mc3j6Pyaaf3YeKGHkcBK8MTMkUEwhVv78J5yk https://overmod.org/lists/view?pk=0STtY8mc3j6Pyaaf3YeKGHkcBK... I separate mine by a bunch of categories which might be a bit complicated, but I was hoping perhaps people might not care about some of the categories https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Overmod#My_Stuff https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Overmod#My_Stuff e.g. I don't like endless repetitious "but corporations" stuff and I also don't like "but they sell your data" repetitively but maybe others want to block category A but not category B. I think that wasn't a sound idea, though. Either people trust you to block for them as well or they don't.

dgellow 5mo ago

What do you mean by omnicause?