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Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by Cupertino95014 »

LOL.

A serious post (I know, it's hard to tell at this point, isn't it?):

Why does HN need the karma points system at all? Downvoting is hardly used on other social networking sites any more, which should tell you something. Getting one pedantipoint has to be a motivation for "I have stuff to say about JIT." posts.

Blocking & muting people is quite effective on Twitter, for example. The dream of a civil discourse with people disagreeing politely was obsolete before the Web was invented. There are a lot of accounts which someone here would rather never see, so why not just let those people erase them, just for their own TL?

Automatically downvoting anything you don't agree with is, basically, "Lord of the Flies" behavior. It leads to brigading.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by T0Bi »

rosmax_1337 wrote: post #121

Damn, I was afraid this was going to be someone stealing my genius idea. Gladly it was just tangential to that idea. Idea: Train an ai to construct entire threads based on the input of the title and link. There should be plenty of training material, and frankly I think it would be hilariously similar to the real threads. When new submissions are added to HN, the system will fetch the title and link, and predict the e…

Sounds similar to /r/subredditsimulator.

>this is a fully-automated subreddit that generates random submissions and comments using markov chains (see below for more info), with each bot account creating text based on comments from a different subreddit.

Quite fun to read.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by btrettel »

rosmax_1337 wrote: post #121

Damn, I was afraid this was going to be someone stealing my genius idea. Gladly it was just tangential to that idea. Idea: Train an ai to construct entire threads based on the input of the title and link. There should be plenty of training material, and frankly I think it would be hilariously similar to the real threads. When new submissions are added to HN, the system will fetch the title and link, and predict the e…

Someone did something similar before, but unfortunately it's now offline. The HN link is still up, though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19694578

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by karaterobot »

I'm someone who clearly didn't read the article, because I raise several points which were directly addressed by the author, but I do not refer to them at all in my very angry comment. It's possible the only thing I know about this article is the title, which it's also possible I misread in my eagerness to have my thoughts known by the internet.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by karaterobot »

karaterobot wrote: post #234

I'm someone who clearly didn't read the article, because I raise several points which were directly addressed by the author, but I do not refer to them at all in my very angry comment. It's possible the only thing I know about this article is the title, which it's also possible I misread in my eagerness to have my thoughts known by the internet.

And I am someone who is responding to that comment, and it's clear I haven't carefully read either the article, or even the comment I'm responding to.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by projektfu »

wkjagt wrote: post #89

It’s missing a comment from someone who dismisses someone else’s comment by starting with “Ehhhh no.” It’s also missing someone making a funny joke and then being downvoted because HN comments need to be serious contributions to the topic.

Please, this isn't Reddit.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by lumenwrites »

Not enough nitpicky corrections that devolve into even more nitpicky nerd arguments about semantics and usage of words that are entirely missing the high-level picture or the ability to understand the meaning of sentences based on their context.

Also, this could use more critical replies discussing why this project couldn't possibly work, or how this article is a result of living in a bubble.

And, of course, someone managing to steer a technical subject into a divisive political argument.

But seriously - very fun project, I love this!

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Post by rikroots »

> I'll weasel in a reference t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶r̶t̶u̶p̶ ̶I̶ ̶c̶o̶-̶f̶o̶u̶n̶d̶e̶d̶ to my JS library even though it's not directly relevant.

Suddenly I feel shallow, and exposed.

On a tangent - am I the only person who uses his real name on HN?

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