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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 oefrha »

I submitted “Show HN: Fake Hacker News – See what HN has to say before you post” along with body text to Fake Hacker News. Here’s ByteBuster’s suggestion:

> Have you considered partnering with OpenAI's GPT-3 to improve the quality of the AI-generated comments?

Btw I’d love a showdead on option. I need to read that flagged comment.

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

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Post by tkgally »

I went recursive or meta or something and submitted the title and description of this submission itself. Some of the results:

cyberXplorer on Mon Aug 21 2023

Wow, this is such a cool idea! It's great that you're providing a platform to see AI-generated HN comments before posting. It could really help users get a sense of how their post might be received. Looking forward to trying it out!

TechNinja on Mon Aug 21 2023

This seems like an interesting concept, but I'm not sure how useful it would be in practice. AI-generated comments might not capture the nuances and insights of real HN users. Have you considered incorporating real comments into the system to improve its accuracy?

CodeBreaker on Mon Aug 21 2023

It's about time someone built something like this! It can be intimidating to post or comment on HN, especially for newcomers. This could be a valuable tool to build confidence and engage with the community. Kudos to you and Michael!

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

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Post by bytefactory »

jusquan wrote: post #9
boricj wrote: post #8

Hmm... Let's try with the ridiculously esoteric thing I'm currently tinkering with: > "Show HN: Ghidra object file exporter extension" - "I'm working on a reverse engineering technique which allows me to unlink parts of programs back into object files. Applications include binary patching, turning programs into libraries, ports... First release includes support for unlinking statically-linked, no-pic 32 bits MIPS exe…

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, unnecessarily pointed critiques. There's also those comments which seem well-informed at first glance (and again, are usually negative), but which an expert would see through the jargon to see are empty of substance.

Adding a bit more of that will make the responses seem even more convincing. Again, great work!

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

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Post by erikaww »

shoo wrote: post #19
mr-pink wrote: post #16

how are you planning to monetize this? i have four kids and they are all making more than $5000/mo passive income with saas.

are you planning to scale this up by adding more kids?

kid orchestration may end up becoming a bottleneck

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

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Post by neom »

I'm a little sad you're uncomfortable about being steamrolled by HN readers. I get it, it took me a long time to not get emotional about HN comments, and still I often fail, but I'd encourage you to join the conversation as much as you can. I find HN generally to be a very kind and loving community and on the whole people tend to be very thoughtful and constructive in their criticism. I have noticed over the last few years folks seem to be trending towards a confrontational tone over a kind one when penning thoughts, however, that's exactly why we need more people like you in the community. So: please do dive in! :)
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