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Re: Show HN: Fake Hacker News – See what HN has to say before you post

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Post by calderknight »

zzzeek wrote: post #77
calderknight wrote: post #47

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Hard to judge without knowing why he's doing it.

Exactly my point! It's a given that Musk is a Genius and everything he does can only be looked at through the lens of "hmm WHY is he doing this? How CAN we know?". If we assumed something crazy ...like, he's a pathetic man baby leader of the incels with no self control over his insatiable, thin skinned vindictiveness, no matter how embarrassing, well, we have no data at all to know anything like that do we.... No he…

Whether he's a genius or not - or a leader of the incels - it seems like the standard ways of evaluating decisions should apply to him. It's strange to evaluate a decision before considering the motivation behind the decision.

Re: Show HN: Fake Hacker News – See what HN has to say before you post

#82

Post by euroderf »

muzani wrote: post #31
jusquan wrote: post #7

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dang roams through all variants of HN ;)

I would actually love a fake dang. There's people using AI to make toxic comments all over social media. Why not use dang clones to politely advice toxic users and bots to be better?

Tell HN: ChatGPT has promoted dang to World Dictator

Re: Show HN: Fake Hacker News – See what HN has to say before you post

#84

Post by zzzeek »

calderknight wrote: post #81
zzzeek wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly my point! It's a given that Musk is a Genius and everything he does can only be looked at through the lens of "hmm WHY is he doing this? How CAN we know?". If we assumed something crazy ...like, he's a pathetic man baby leader of the incels with no self control over his insatiable, thin skinned vindictiveness, no matter how embarrassing, well, we have no data at all to know anything like that do we.... No he…

Whether he's a genius or not - or a leader of the incels - it seems like the standard ways of evaluating decisions should apply to him. It's strange to evaluate a decision before considering the motivation behind the decision.

I agree entirely, why decide what's happening based on our own eyes, we just dont know!

Re: Show HN: Fake Hacker News – See what HN has to say before you post

#85

Post by calderknight »

zzzeek wrote: post #84
calderknight wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whether he's a genius or not - or a leader of the incels - it seems like the standard ways of evaluating decisions should apply to him. It's strange to evaluate a decision before considering the motivation behind the decision.

I agree entirely, why decide what's happening based on our own eyes, we just dont know!

Yeah, after all, thinking about things rationally rather than jumping to conclusions is a good habit for people who value the truth highly.

Re: Show HN: Fake Hacker News – See what HN has to say before you post

#86

Post by ekanes »

Amazing. Great work. Interesting and useful!

Only feedback I guess would be that one-line replies, often with exclamation marks felt much more common than on HN.

Still, v cool and probably hugely helpful for people with social anxiety, which seems like pretty much everyone. :)

Re: Show HN: Fake Hacker News – See what HN has to say before you post

#87

Post by jusquan »

arun-mani-j wrote: post #79

I tried it like this- Title - fakehn.com Text - Do a test run of your hacker news submission to see how readers may respond to your post. Planning to add url support in the near future! Top comment - Is there a reason why we need a separate platform to test our Hacker News submissions? Can't we just post directly and see how readers respond? A few interesting comments - I'm not convinced that using a separate platfor…

Nice! Thanks for trying it and glad you found it interesting :)

Re: Show HN: Fake Hacker News – See what HN has to say before you post

#88

Post by jusquan »

addandsubtract wrote: post #83

This is fun, but it's including meta data in the outputs. For example, "Reply 1:" or "Reply 2:" or even "Agree:" / "Disagree:".

Ah yup this is something that happens every 1 in probably every 20 or so times. Planning on adding a few layers of parsing after generations to prevent this from happening!

Re: Show HN: Fake Hacker News – See what HN has to say before you post

#89

Post by jusquan »

boricj wrote: post #10
jusquan wrote: post #9

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Whoa interesting, thanks for sharing! For more niche, esoteric topics, it's interesting to see the opposite ends of LLMs knowing too much (or at least pretending to know too much) yet too little while trying to simulate real people. Too much in that it's unlikely that this many real people would immediately grasp your post and be directly excited by it (e.g. 'This is exactly what I've been looking for!') yet too litt…

> Real HN readers would have vastly different levels of contextual knowledge and excitement, which we want to simulate with more specific agents mapping to real HN readers with different interests and areas of expertise. It would be interesting to compare Fake Hacker News with the real deal 1-to-1. Obviously for my particular topic it'd require that I actually muster the courage (and documentation) to actually submit…

Those are great suggestions! I especially like having an 'I'm feeling uninspired' button to help fix the blank canvas problem + make it easy to test with real HN posts. Appreciate the feedback!

Re: Show HN: Fake Hacker News – See what HN has to say before you post

#90

Post by jusquan »

bytefactory wrote: post #26
jusquan wrote: post #9

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Whoa interesting, thanks for sharing! For more niche, esoteric topics, it's interesting to see the opposite ends of LLMs knowing too much (or at least pretending to know too much) yet too little while trying to simulate real people. Too much in that it's unlikely that this many real people would immediately grasp your post and be directly excited by it (e.g. 'This is exactly what I've been looking for!') yet too litt…

This is an incredible project, thanks for making this! I realize right after saying that, my slight critique will be a bit ironic :D I really like the variety of the comments, but some of them lean a bit towards being milquetoast and lack the edge that HN posters often seem to have. While there's often helpful posters who are clearly experts and offer encouragement, most HN posts will also include sharp, unnecessaril…

Haha thank you! Strongly agree—a characteristic part of HN are definitely the opinionated and inevitably contrarian replies, so in the future, we want to create opinionated fakeHN agents mapping to the past comments of real individual HN users. That way, we can hopefully create higher-fidelity comments capturing their biases and technical depth to capture more of the magic of HN.
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