Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments
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Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments
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This is arguably their defining HN characteristic: they are one of the most vocal, persistent AI optimists on the platform. They claim ~90-95% of their shipped code is AI-generated, report 5-10x productivity gains, and have built a detailed methodology around it — using Playwright for visual verification, static typechecking as a hallucination filter, and e2e test suites as automated validation harnesses
Wow, I sound really annoying. Sorry about that everyone!
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#3hacker news is a goldmine since you can't delete comments nor even delete your account. this site is a privacy nightmare, in a world where everyone is excited to cancel and dox for unpopular opinions (on this site that means anything to the right of bernie sanders).
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#4This just in; posting ridiculous amounts of personal information on the internet can lead to you being profiled correctly. Wild stuff.
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#6This just in; posting ridiculous amounts of personal information on the internet can lead to you being profiled correctly. Wild stuff.
Not entirely correctly though, since there are forms of censorship even on HN, which selectively blinds any method of analysis in a systematically biased way.
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#7This just in; posting ridiculous amounts of personal information on the internet can lead to you being profiled correctly. Wild stuff.
There was an Irish mafia guy who was caught because his anonymous restaurant review profile got linked to him.
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#8> This is arguably their defining HN characteristic: they are one of the most vocal, persistent AI optimists on the platform. They claim ~90-95% of their shipped code is AI-generated, report 5-10x productivity gains, and have built a detailed methodology around it — using Playwright for visual verification, static typechecking as a hallucination filter, and e2e test suites as automated validation harnesses Wow, I sou…
I sound like an annoying old people I guess so I think I'm worse. Either way I forgive you. (GPT called me a wiring closet gremlin)
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#9Given a profile like this, how good would an LLM be at figuring out whether the profile if from a bot or a real person?
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#10This just in; posting ridiculous amounts of personal information on the internet can lead to you being profiled correctly. Wild stuff.
We all know this, but in the past someone probably wasn't going to go through thousands of your comments unless you've really pissed them off. It's worth realising how much lower the activation energy is these days.