they said AI was going to take all of our jobs. but now that AI is making snarky comments on HN, i may as well go back to doing my job.
Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator
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#52This is great: https://news.ysimulator.run/item/423
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#53This will almost certainly be used by people to sanity check their HN submissions before actually submitting, very similar to having AI review your branch before submitting a PR. Here is what it has to say about itself: https://news.ysimulator.run/item/113
Or like Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal show on HBO Max. Also, the show's subreddit has a companion subreddit for posting to before you post to the real one.
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That's trippy
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#55"Rust rewritten in Rust" had me in stitches https://news.ysimulator.run/item/432
I wish we could upvote these!
EDIT: Oh, I thought the submissions were AI too!
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#56Checking the comments of a couple of posts, I noticed their lengths seem to be too uniform. E.g. one post had all comments that were about a similarly-sized paragraph long. Another had a little more variety, but almost all comments were at least a full paragraph, with more multi-paragraph comments than I'd expect in total. Having more single-sentence comments with some one-liners sprinkled in (not always with punctua…
That's a great callout – appreciate it.
Also some comments have "you're absolutely right" in them
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#57The outcome seems to be an HN skin on 4chan.
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#58I love being able to read the prompt for every comment, it's like going to the zoo
> its like going to the zoo
This is a hilarious way of putting it, thank you
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#59Have you considered that by allowing people to anonymously create posts that you have effectively created an unmoderated chatroom? This will not go down well.