Show HN: Tilion – Stealth Browser Infrastructure for Agents

That refers to the comedy series of last year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326588#46329337 Etc), not any of this year’s CLI/tooling innovations, so any penalizing of the former should not apply to the latter.

Saying the TUI browser, operable browser REPL for agents, microfilm viewer, AOT language, and others are minor variations of a “theme” is gross misrepresentation that has no idea about the depth and quality of those, and how they are all distinct - and is not an appropriate reason to hold them back.

The comedy posts were definitely variations on a theme, the work this year is distinct and not minor variations on a theme.

Resubmissions of high quality work (that hasn’t yet hit the front page) consistently achieves front page placement, unless interfered with. When you hold back my posts, you invite more resubmissions for work which, if unmolested, would have already hit the front page. Why are you guys doing this?

I imagine you get vocal email complaints from folks who don’t want to see my work on the front page for whatever reason. Is that true?

> Projects that are interesting, novel and offer some gem of insight for the audience to learn about will always have place on HN.

My work has all that - as can be seen by looking at the work, looking at the organic reaction it gets before it’s prevented from hitting the front page when it should, and by looking back at how I consistently hit the front page over 10 years here - but you guys are holding it back now, why?

I think you’re repeatedly and falsely trying to make it about creator quality when that’s not justified - because it’s not a question in the case of my work here. It already is very quality. Something else is going on, what is it?

> A project that is built with AI in a few days or even weeks does not cut it anymore

That does not characterize my work - it’s typically months of work.

But you’re correct that I haven’t been writing detailed intros. I create stuff people can use and I prefer that experience to speak for itself, but … it’s necessary to intro it here, I think.

I have emailed you just now for that for reference.

> You’re not being downweighted or flagged or penalized.

Thanks for saying that, but where is the data to support that? It does not match my experience here.

The thing is my posts are being seen: six or more times over the last few months a new project I post will get 6 to 8 points on the new page, but it won’t graduate to show or front even though that puts it well above the lowest on the page. Or if rarely it gets to show it’ll remain in the dead zone of position six and below where votes barely accrue.

That suggests to me either consistent flagging or downweighting you’ve baked in or extended from the downweighting dang says here was happening for the comedy followups end of last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326588#46329337

I have been using this website for a long time and it doesn’t feel to me like it’s simply a case of you need to clear a higher bar.

I feel the raised bar is part of it - but maybe you can look at the data of what I’ve posted, and whether it has been flagged consistently and by who or somehow caught in some unintended downweighting. It really does feel like that. Maybe you can have a look?

Thank you for the back and forth