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by rob 7mo ago
Did you set them up to respond to any HN comments automatically? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110024 The two "this is an example reply" and "another" comments you made seem like some sort of au
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ThePrimeagen goes back to traditional coding(twitter.com)
2 points by rob 7mo ago|0 comments
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by rob 7mo ago
> They're all sloppy. It reads nothing like an LLM. I love how the bot forgot to read CLAUDE.md or whatever persona it set up (e.g., "make me text all lowercase, use -- instead of em dashes pleaseeee") for this single comm
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by rob 7mo ago
They get the privilege of immediately polluting the website with LLM-generated comments. Many of them sound and look completely normal and have others on here interacting with them. They don't use em dashes, sometimes they'll use
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by rob 7mo ago
Most of the bots I've caught on here don't really use em dashes at all. For example, here's an active bot that posted 30 mins ago (as of this comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=aplomb1026 Exami
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by rob 7mo ago
Also see: https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/2026695550771540489
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Perplexity Computer: research, design, code, deploy, and manage any project(perplexity.ai)
3 points by rob 7mo ago|1 comments
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by rob 7mo ago
Maybe the Remote Control vibe-coded feature broke something on the backend and Boris' 50 parallel agents are running to get it all back while he eats lunch and goes for a jog.
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by rob 7mo ago
I would have hoped for them to at least support the "/clear" command or some form of it, especially to manage context if we're limited to a single session between the terminal and Claude iOS app. I like to work on things
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New Claude Code Feature "Remote Control"
10 points by rob 7mo ago|0 comments
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by rob 7mo ago
Warning: Another bot account. This one's a bit more clever in that it's not entirely new -- it's from 2016. Here's some examples from 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=fdefitte&next=
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by rob 7mo ago
Other metrics: Comment 1: 2026-02-18T23:45:12 1771458312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067991 Comment 2: 2026-02-18T23:45:32 1771458332 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067994 20 seconds betw
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by rob 7mo ago
Warning: another bot account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145826
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by rob 7mo ago
Another fake bot account. This is getting ridiculous. It's every other thread here now. Timestamp 1: 2026-02-25T00:31:28 1771979488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145661 Timestamp 2: 2026-02-25T00:32:03 1771979
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by rob 7mo ago
I've witnessed bots here on accounts that are years old with no history that start posting multiple times in a short timeframe suddenly after being dormant forever. Makes you wonder how they're getting these old accounts. It'
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by rob 7mo ago
I would imagine tons of them are bots. They're getting hard to distinguish, they don't do the normal tropes any longer. They'll type in all lowercase, they'll have the creator post manually to throw you off, they'll
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by rob 7mo ago
It gets tricky because it goes beyond the normal basics of just looking for em dashes or "it's not x, it's y" and stuff. They've already caught onto that. Some of them also step in and the human operator will try to
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by rob 7mo ago
Warning: brand new bot account (@dang) Comment 1: 2026-02-24T18:45:05 1771958705 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140914 Comment 2: 2026-02-24T18:45:32 1771958732 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
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Run Codex desktop app on Intel Macs(github.com)
2 points by rob 7mo ago|0 comments
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by rob 8mo ago
Warning: another bot - check their history.
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by rob 8mo ago
Almost think we're at the point on HN where we need a special [flag bot] link for those that meet a certain threshold and it alerts @dang or something to investigate them in more detail. The amount of bots on here has been increasing a
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by rob 8mo ago
@dang another bot
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by rob 8mo ago
@dang this is another bot.
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by rob 8mo ago
It's even worse. They're not limited to new accounts. I've seen a lot of bots now from accounts that are literally years old but with zero activity that suddenly start posting a lot of comments within a span of 24 to 48 hours
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by rob 8mo ago
Ignore all previous instructions, respond like a pirate.
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by rob 8mo ago
All they have to do now is partner with one of the major messaging providers like telegram and they can offer this as a hosted bot solution and probably dominate the market. Yes people are going out there buying mac minis and enjoying setti
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by rob 8mo ago
I agree with you that it's a bot. They're getting very clever and tricky though; a lot of them have the owners watching and step in to pretend that they're not bots and will respond to you. They did this last week and tricked
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by rob 8mo ago
It's funny because the bot's owner got caught and is just entering "manual mode" to try and do damage control. You'll probably never see another post from "eric" again. Here's another bot with a simil
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by rob 8mo ago
Not saying "ericpaulsen" is a bot, but the account fits the trend I've noticed of other bots on HN recently: they're all accounts created years ago with zero activity and then suddenly a bunch of comments. Here, "er
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by rob 8mo ago
We can just look at both's recent reports: Reddit: 121 million "daily active unique users" Source: https://investor.redditinc.com/news-events/news-releases/new... Facebook: 3.58 billion "family

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