How do unresearched, vibe-coded projects like this reach the front page?
I was wondering this too, I worked on a project for weeks, posted on HN and got shadowbanned lmao
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Re: Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client
#52Why is it replacing true/false with T/F? true/false is already 1 token in all tokenizer I've seen. Even worse is replacing null with ∅. ∅ is a special unicode symbol that takes up 2 tokens compared to the 1 token for null...
Agreed. This is what happens when you confuse token counts with byte counts.
A trivial test through tiktoken [1] (though technically you really have to match the tokenizer to the specific LLM) would have shown them that ∅ was a poor choice.
Even from the perspective of learned training data, you can probably just intuit that from a frequency standpoint alone the empty-set symbol ∅ can’t possibly have appeared that often outside of things like set theory and logic.