Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator

Pretty accurate. I just submitted a link to Dropbox, and the first comment read “isn’t this just SFTP with a pretty UI on top?”

https://news.ysimulator.run/item/2045

I suppose this proves we’re all living in a simulation already. To gather further scientific proof, I’m going to submit some links about Rust, Apple, and a couple of Nyan Cat things and see how it goes…

Can AI get Steve Witkoff's medical records unclassified. Need to know if he's insane or just pretends.

Next: I desperately need a 4Chan Simulator pls

So, something I find particularly annoying about hn is that you can segment it into very different subgroups that may or may not interact with a particular post. So you may find that in one thread, anti-hype sentiment is very high, and a more reasonable comment would be downvoted, and the next day the same anti-AI posts on another thread would get strongly downvoted because the thread is dominated by the hype people. It's far from being uniform, and since some people might feel that they risk to burn karma by entering the wrong thread there's an amount of self-censorship that makes this effect stronger.

Do you have something like that to manage the group dynamics?

Also in terms of personalities, I'm guessing the most appropriate way to get the list of prompts would be to run an analysis on the hn dataset to classify user behaviour patterns and create the prompts according to this. Since you can match these to posts in thread, you can also get a rough approximation of the dynamics distribution. Did you do such an analysis?

i'm very impressed with grok 4. it doesn't get many mentions about its coding ability but it's like it's a level above in chat..

https://news.ysimulator.run/item/2043

It's probable that LLMs are already operating on the real HN, agentically or driven by users who want to create intelligent-sounding comments for the sake of upvotes.

Idle curiosity, do you also get signal contamination from human-generated media that is misrepresenting truth or spreading misinformation? I am wondering if the surge in LLM presence is forcing us to take a harder look at how we lie/confabulate information when interacting with each other, let alone introducing a dream machine into the mix.