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by tomhow 8mo ago
Same as all the other guidelines. Moderators look at the threads and act on what we see. We also look at lists of flagged comments, and emails sent to hn@ycombinator.com by community members. One-off offending comments are flagged+killed, a
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by tomhow 8mo ago
URL changed from https://schwarztech.net/snippets/i-was-interviewed-by-an-ai-... , which is just a snippet from this article. Submitters, please always submit the most original source for a story.
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Something I've noticed through moderation is that people are much more easily duped by generated comments if they like the content and/or agree with the point. We've seen several cases where a bot-generated comment has been h
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Google to buy Wiz for $32B - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398518 - March 2025 (845 comments)
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by tomhow 8mo ago
We've decided to give it another try as it didn't get much front page time or discussion.
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Thanks for sharing your thoughts in such detail. It's an understandable position. Our position is that we give many people second (and more) chances here, whether or not they're YC founders, startup founders, or hackers.
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by tomhow 8mo ago
This post is about the launch of a YC company and its product. It's reasonable that when a company launches a product, the discussion is focused on the product that it is launching. We moderate that way whether it's a YC company&
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Please email us when you see them! hn@ycombinator.com
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Previously... The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41214180 - Aug 2024 (173 comments) The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office”
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by tomhow 8mo ago
We've banned this account for continually posting comments like this that are unsubstantive and clearly in breach of the guidelines and HN's intended use.
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Please don't post low-substance comments to 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 8mo ago
A 3rd-hand story originally from WSJ, with no reliably-sourced evidence for the claim in the title, and officially refuted by Meta PR: https://x.com/andymstone/status/2031129981267620314 See https://new
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by tomhow 8mo ago
> Is there any real information backing this? No. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47316505
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by tomhow 8mo ago
We've banned this account.
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Can anyone find any more authoritative sources for this story than I can? The original source submitted was https://www.idnfinancials.com/news/61918/zuckerberg-has-fini... , with the headline Zuckerberg has “finis
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259366 .
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Be an active participant. Engage in other discussions threads with curiosity and generosity. Ask good questions, share interesting perspectives. Show you’re human and thoughtful. The system has long been that anyone can email the mods and a
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by tomhow 8mo ago
> I furthermore wish that "posting an LLM-generated comment (i.e. and passing it off as your own)" was worthy of an instant ban It pretty much is. It’s not hard and fast (sometimes we’ll warn people or email them to ask if it’s
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Please don't fulminate or post snarky, shallow dismissals 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 8mo ago
Please don't introduce off-topic flamebait here.
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by tomhow 8mo ago
We are sympathetic, but it's still not OK to fulminate on HN, no matter what it's about. It just makes the place miserable. Please flag it or email us (hn@ycombinator.com) if you think a post is unfit for HN. https://ne
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Please don't post snarky, shallow dismissals. That's been against the guidelines for a long time. Genuine innovation is what we most want to encourage. That's what Show HN has always been about. The problem now is that coding
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by tomhow 8mo ago
> cut the bullshit You can't comment like this on Hacker News, no matter what you're replying to. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spi
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Please don't post sneers and swipes like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for much better than this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Downvote it, flag it and if you want to be super-helpful, email us about it (hn@ycombinator.com). We want HN to be free of generated articles and comments, and will kill such submissions/comments and ban accounts that do it repeatedly.
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Please don't do this here.
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by tomhow 8mo ago
We don't need a defiant mini-sermon and it's very poor conduct to use the term "blatantly lie" for a fellow community member who is just expressing their understanding of a topic. It is never morally necessary to abuse p
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by tomhow 8mo ago
A real-life scene that made me chuckle last weekend… “Oh shit, Hey Babe did you close my laptop?” My not-very-technical friend as we returned home from a Sunday afternoon trip to the park with the kids to find his Claude Code session had be
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by tomhow 8mo ago
> Because your ignorance is painful. It's not acceptable to attack a fellow community member like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're aiming for better than this: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; d
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by tomhow 8mo ago
We've banned this account.

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