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#62

Enjoyed the [flagged] + dang response easter egg

There is a flagged on this page too. Life imitates art. (No dang yet though)

someone's gotta take the fall and leave a comment on this post violating the guidelines (jk please don't)

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#64

After trying it with a few posts, the biggest flaw I saw, is that LLMs, just can't say yes or no, and only talk hypothetical. https://www.fakehn.com/submission?id=EUfJuTfwvbjNQWifM20C vs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37199177

Thanks for sharing! This is something we've noticed too. One of the key traits about any social forum like HN is that there are more concrete opinions (with some inevitable contrarian ones), which we aren't seeing very often now. We're hoping that as we create higher-fidelity comments by mapping simulated user comments to real, opinionated, biased HN user comment histories, we can see more of this!

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post #31
post #7

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?

fakedang but 1 in every 10 posts is realdang

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#66

I'm curious to see how accurate the comments are compared to ground truth, I'll check it out

Let me know how it goes! It's fun to compare the comments to real ones for the same post. Some definitely miss the mark but others, especially some of the Ask HN posts, have surprising similarities.

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After an initial delay because of high load, I got a handful of generated comments. Shortly after, they all disappeared with an error. I’m guessing it’s some background poll that failed because of high load (could be paginating for more results, I don’t know). In this event, it’d be really nice to retain the already generated comments instead. I only got two seconds to look at them, before they got replaced by an err…

Yikes, thanks for letting us know! We were getting rate-limited by OpenAI, especially after hitting the front page(!), so sometimes the initial comments would load, but the replies wouldn't, killing the page.

We just fixed this so that even if replies fail, it'll still show you the initial comments. The replies should also be less-likely to fail now, in case you give it another go!

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#69

The replies are almost all very unrealistic.

I think I got this exact comment in one of my test generations for this submission

JK, depending on what you're submitting I agree the comments are very shallow right now for many submissions, which is why we'd like to create higher fidelity comments by mapping generated comments to real, individual, opinionated HN readers and their comment histories. Anything we can do to bring more of the real HN magic to fakeHN!

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

#70
post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seemed to be on topic for my project https://www.fakehn.com/submission?id=efLkVt2if5czNdN38wAY

That redirects to empty path URL

Thanks for flagging, this should be fixed now!
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