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Do proof-of-work pages actually stop AI bots? Big AI companies have enough compute to solve these challenges at scale. And if their bots are already doing much heavier work to fetc…

The multiple levels of abuse here are astounding. That grown adults can think projects like this are acceptable, let alone promote them, is hard to believe. I am 90% sure this is y…

This "Code is cheap. Show me the talk." punchline gets overused as a bait these days. It is an alright article but that's a lot of words to tell us something we already know. There…

I don't know what >1M subscribers have got to do anything. It is the case that many YouTubers pushing a specific propaganda have >1M subscribers. YouTube may be a little better tha…

> That's got to be why one UK VC after another is closing their doors. One after another? The only one that closed office was Andreessen Horowitz. What's the "another"? I don't kno…

I have done a lot of social work with Bangladeshi community. What many people don't know that the Bangladeshi wives who come as dependants speak better English than their husbands …

> English no longer functions reliably as the default public language Absolutely false. My god! Have you even been to London? Stop consuming propaganda from Twitter/X and Facebook.…

Where are you pulling this random 15% number from? And a ridiculous number too. It's more like 2% to 3% unless you spend your entire day traveling. I just checked how much I pay fo…

The website has been made by AI. May be it has learned from its training that this kind of confirm box is cheeky humor for humans?

> Maybe its just you who doesnt like them? Obviously it's just me who doesn't like them. What's your point?

The joke was fun the first time. When the joke posts (low effort AI slop no less!) are spammed to HN every week, it stops being fun.

That's true. But it is also true that almost nobody rewrites a whole complex software in Rust to get internet forum points from HN people. Your question was "Is it wrong, though?" …

Yes, it is wrong. Take the top one: > We rewrote it in Rust so you have to upvote it I'm pretty sure they didn't go through all the trouble of rewriting it in Rust to get some inte…

> How much of this navel-gazing junk do we need? See also, from the same author: Seriously! I'll admit the first post was mighty fun. But now this is turning into an AI-spam-fest! …

> As a result, I can no longer log in and lost access to all my Kindle e-books. Can't you file a suit in a small claims court?

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How is this happening though? What's the democratic process there that's allowing this kind of stuff to happen?

It is and I said as much. I'm sure these experiments are fun for the creator. From the downvotes I'm getting, I'm sure it's fun for the community too. It was fun for me too the fir…

Of course it is boring and silly for me . That's why I commented. The downvotes show the community agrees with you and disagrees with me. That's fine. I'm here to speak my opinion.…

Totally unreadable with the all caps. I guess that's the point. This kind of thing is fun once. And it was fun when the AI-generated fake HN was posted last week. But there's no ne…