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It even flagged some of the comments on my fake post! Cool!

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?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

There is a user fakedang iirc

Yup, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fakedang

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

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i posted the headline and first paragraph of https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-says-x-will-str.... Every response listed was a generic, negative response, like "this seems a terrible idea". I was hoping for at least one or two "people just dont understand Musk's genius / that's what mute is for" responses. So this didn't really for me capture the special "flavor" of Hacker News, which is that no matter how awful something is, there's always a solid nut of "this is actually a good thing" contrarians ready on the mark.

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

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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…

> "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."

More-so than literally any other social news site I've found on the Internet in recent years. And the news topics I find here are generally more interesting reading than many other sites I've found, too.

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Hey HN! Michael here, one of the co-creators of Fake Hacker News. if anyone is curious, here is some background info on our tech stack: - Frontend: react, next 13, typescript, tailwind css - DB: firebase for storing submissions and the generated comments - Backend: vercel edge function that calls openai - Analytics: posthog For analytics, we are collecting the following product events: - number of times we call opena…

Hey Michael! Love the project. Is it open-source, per chance? And if not, could it be?
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