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by tomhow 5mo ago
We've banned this account for repeatedly posting abusive comments. We've asked you before to observe the guidelines, and the recent trend is getting much worse. When this happens we eventually have to assume you want to be banned.
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by tomhow 5mo ago
We've banned this account. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301060 and marked it off topic.
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Many thanks.
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Please don't engage in political/ideological battle on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Please don't fulminate on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 5mo ago
California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269961 - May 2026 (471 comments) Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Sourc
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Microsoft and Uber Are Running into an AI Cost Problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48277753 - May 2026 (6 comments) Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify' - https:/&#x2
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by tomhow 5mo ago
These comments from you seem belligerent and entitled. This has no place on HN. If you want to contribute constructively to the way HN runs, great. Start by being respectful to the community and the guidelines. We're hardly going to pr
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by tomhow 5mo ago
We (moderators) don't ever delete comments (except in rare cases where a user later asks us to do so for privacy reasons). The most obvious candidate for what the parent commenter is referring to is this one, which has been flagged&#x2
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by tomhow 5mo ago
> Haven't seen so many uninformed comments in a while on HN Can you link to the ones you mean? As another commenter has pointed out, there don't seem to be "many", but without links it's impossible for anyone to
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278090 .
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Please don't act like a jerk. This site is only a place where people like to participate because we have guidelines that we uphold daily, and others make the effort to observe them. When accounts repeatedly post low-substance or snarky
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by tomhow 5mo ago
We don’t mind profanity per se, but that kind of demeaning, abusive language about anyone is unacceptable here, as is ideological/political battle. It’s doesn’t matter how right you feel you are.
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by tomhow 5mo ago
The second sentence of your comment is about as vile a comment as we ever see here. HN is not the place for making sweeping condemnations of “The West”. For one thing, it's dozens of countries, many of whom disagree with each other. An
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by tomhow 5mo ago
We've banned this account.
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by tomhow 5mo ago
We've banned this account.
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by tomhow 5mo ago
> He can be proud of the legacy he built, which is something many American founders cannot say with a straight face. Please don't use an obituary to make a nationalistic swipe on HN.
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by tomhow 5mo ago
This kind of comment is unwelcome on HN. Do not comment like this here. The notion that we should withhold medical care for the sake of genetic fitness of future generations is vile, no matter how much it's dressed up to seem scientifi
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by tomhow 5mo ago
WTF? How is this an appropriate comment in a discussion about transistor density? We have to ban accounts that comment like this repeatedly. Please observe the guidelines if you want to participate here. https://news.ycombinator.
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Please don't post ideological/religious flamebait on HN. Also, on HN you can't have a username that is inflammatory like that, so for now I've banned the account. You're welcome to participate here if you observe th
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to &qu
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Please don't post grandiose conspiracy theories like this on HN. All kinds of criticism of AI is posted all the time on HN. Comments are downvoted or flagged if users disagree with them or if they break the guidelines. If you see anyth
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by tomhow 5mo ago
> What a stupid thing to say. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." Please don't fulminate. Plea
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Can you not post this style of sweeping rhetoric on HN? We're here for curious conversation, and comments like this are antithetical to that. Please take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe them when participa
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by tomhow 5mo ago
We've banned this account. Stop registering accounts to post inflammatory comments about race. It's all clearly against the guidelines and a waste of everyone's time.
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by tomhow 5mo ago
You can't comment like this on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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by tomhow 5mo ago
The “quote” you cited was not a quote. It was a caricature of a quote. That’s the entire thing I’m objecting to, because that is clearly against the guidelines. Everything else you’re writing is irrelevant to this point. If you want to have
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by tomhow 5mo ago
As anyone can see, there are plenty of criticisms of Brockman and OpenAI in this very thread (some of them even reference the very thing you referenced), as there are in many other HN threads all the time. We have no problem with that. The
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by tomhow 5mo ago
Please don’t post snarky, shallow dismissals on HN. It only serves to make the place seem miserable.

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