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by dang 2mo ago
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. We're trying for something different here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: sorry to pile on, but please see https:&#x2
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by dang 2mo ago
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
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by dang 2mo ago
Related. Others? WebMCP is available for early preview - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47211249 - March 2026 (216 comments) Ask HN: What Is the Point of WebMCP? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by dang 2mo ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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by dang 2mo ago
Thanks! Macroexpanded: Five hundred and seven Mechanical Movements - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41579354 - Sept 2024 (5 comments) 507 Mechanical Movements (1868) - https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by dang 2mo ago
The story is in an intermediate state right now, but as semiquaver points out, The Information is reporting it as fact. Since their reporting tends to be as reliable as it is hardwalled, we went with their claim in the title.
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by dang 2mo ago
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. No doubt you have the nucleus of a substantive comment here, but that's not enough. If you only post the shallowest top stratum of what you're thinking, other people do
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by dang 2mo ago
I appreciate your watching out for the quality of Hacker News! but on this point we go by what pg said way back in 2009: Empty comments can be ok if they're positive. There's nothing wrong with submitting a comment saying just &q
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by dang 2mo ago
> people getting hacked and their accounts being used for that Ah good point - I added that bit to the parent. Thanks for the interesting replies!
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by dang 2mo ago
Fixed above. Thanks!
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by dang 2mo ago
Thanks, we've abouted the title above.
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by dang 2mo ago
Yes, I know that people repeat this a lot, but it's a generic dismissal that has nothing to do with the specifics of the project being discussed, which makes it shallow and offtopic. (Especially when taking the form of a snarky attack.
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by dang 2mo ago
Of course it's possible that there's a SSM (Sufficiently Smart Manipulator), which by definition we can't know about. But despite not everything being knowable, there are still things one can say. This topic has a long histor
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by dang 2mo ago
I take your point! But the positives are still positive. I've been amazed by how much LLMs have helped us do. None of it was undoable otherwise, but we (where by "we" I mean "I") would never have gotten around to it
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by dang 2mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395802 (which was posted first)
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by dang 2mo ago
Recent and related: Ox-Alpha Is GLM? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422226 - Aug 2026 (65 comments) A mysterious free AI model is impressing developers. Nobody knows who made it - https://news.ycomb
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by dang 2mo ago
LLMs have helped us keep HN up and still (relatively) fast amid a huge onslaught of new traffic over the last year or so. We've been able to solve problems and find opportunities for optimization that we'd never have gotten to wit
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by dang 2mo ago
That's fine, but it would be helpful to see examples. People often make generic claims about astroturfing, bots, etc. that don't hold up in practice when we look at the data. Bots and genai comments also exist, of course, and are
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by dang 2mo ago
Recent and related: Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149966 - Aug 2026 (81 comments)
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by dang 2mo ago
Related ongoing thread: Dolly Parton has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438052
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by dang 2mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438052 .
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by dang 2mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438052 .
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by dang 2mo ago
" Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by dang 2mo ago
Related: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31572258 - May 2022 (236 comments)
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by dang 2mo ago
Appreciated!
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by dang 2mo ago
Links?
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by dang 2mo ago
https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Cold-War-World-Letters/dp/15...
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by dang 2mo ago
Related. Others? Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36155204 - June 2023 (332 comments) Was Modern Art Really a CIA Psy-Op? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by dang 2mo ago
I appreciate the edit, but now that I read the edited comment, I think I was responding mostly to the "Gross." bit.

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