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It would appear no one else submitted the posts in question, so the most obvious answer is the account is finding interesting articles that no one else has foun
by dooglius 19d ago
It would appear no one else submitted the posts in question, so the most obvious answer is the account is finding interesting articles that no one else has found. It would be one thing if it won out of many dupe posters, but that doesn't seem to be what's happening.
- arionhardison 19d agoThis is valid. 1. each one is a first-party vendor announcement, submitted very close to the announcement and under the vendors headline. 2. Titles are "verbatim" vendor headlines. No editorializing which follows HN guidelines to the letter. 3. Someone; a script/agent is watching vendor feeds and X accounts then submitting within minutes of the posting. 4. Altman/Navier–Stokes post got [duped] so prob not inside thing.
- stymaar 19d agoHigh frequency karma farming.
- a4isms 19d agoYou aren't serious about high-frequency karma ("HFK") unless you colocate your equipment with the routing for your sources so you can beat your HFK competition to a submission by at least 200ms. We will have reached HFK-ception when the bots are fighting to be the first to submit "How I used AI to build a High-Frequency Karma Farming Bot on Hacker News."
- Yizahi 19d agoThen a week later: "Paul Graham announces a 100000$/month high priority access plan to the HackerNews via YC API." :)
- arionhardison 19d agoYC already announced something along these lines. re: https://www.ycombinator.com/early-access https://www.ycombinator.com/early-access
- Yizahi 19d agoOh my... I should be more careful in my predictions :)
- runj__ 19d agoTheir scraper is physically really close to the internet building!