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Re: Show HN: I wrote a BitTorrent Client from scratch

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Post by alexpadula »

blibble wrote: post #29
Moosdijk wrote: post #27

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what's up with the amount of new accounts praising this project?

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I always wondered how the heck do people get away with that. HN mods lacking allowing those sort of projects to the top and legit bot likes and comments. Craziness. Put's all the projects and posts worthy of eyes to the dead bottom.

Re: Show HN: I wrote a BitTorrent Client from scratch

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alexpadula wrote: post #33
blibble wrote: post #29

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I always wondered how the heck do people get away with that. HN mods lacking allowing those sort of projects to the top and legit bot likes and comments. Craziness. Put's all the projects and posts worthy of eyes to the dead bottom.

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Re: Show HN: I wrote a BitTorrent Client from scratch

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Post by fragmede »

alexpadula wrote: post #33
blibble wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I always wondered how the heck do people get away with that. HN mods lacking allowing those sort of projects to the top and legit bot likes and comments. Craziness. Put's all the projects and posts worthy of eyes to the dead bottom.

some people don't, but there's survivorship bias at play here. whenever you suspect foul play, email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com, they're quite responsive

Re: Show HN: I wrote a BitTorrent Client from scratch

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rvnx wrote: post #30
diagraphic wrote: post #25

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"convert length string into an integer" is a machine generated comment? I've been writing code for 15+ years, this made me laugh my ass off. Comments are great, I don't read comments but I write them for others, especially for open source code. Atoi may be something you and I and a whole bunch of others know but people who don't it's a fine comment. Relax! :)

In the tests it more obvious: You can see here for example: https://github.com/piyushgupta53/go-torrent-client/commit/61... and some strings coming from crawled resources like: lengthi12345e4 but slightly different tokens (like 25 instead of 35 etc). Gemini Pro 2.5 even gave me the prompt: > If you asked me, "Generate Go unit tests for a Bencode decoder function called Decode that takes an io.Reader and returns an in…

"TODO: We'll develop the actual functionality as we develop each component" lool

It's hard to say honestly. I don't call any project AI as it's just too hard to tell. I write lots of comments in my code too so it's hard to call anything AI without a person stating they used it.

Claude is decent for sure, but I always say with AI, learn the math before jumping to a calculator.

Re: Show HN: I wrote a BitTorrent Client from scratch

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Post by alexpadula »

fragmede wrote: post #37
alexpadula wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always wondered how the heck do people get away with that. HN mods lacking allowing those sort of projects to the top and legit bot likes and comments. Craziness. Put's all the projects and posts worthy of eyes to the dead bottom.

some people don't, but there's survivorship bias at play here. whenever you suspect foul play, email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com, they're quite responsive

Thank you for the info! Much appreciated fragmede :)
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