I find it interesting that we havent invented a democratic version of policing a rule system. HN is dang, and he is dictator and guardian of these rules, basically. If you replace them with some typical reddit mod HN dies. If you spread out this role to some democratically elected mods via karma system this will fall apart just as quick as StackOverflow did, so, also HN dies.
Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
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#252Unironically, I'd love to have a captcha here for comments and submissions.
Ironically (morisettan or otherwise), modern AI can crack some captchas better than humans.
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#253All the weak excuses posted here are just making me lean more towards a hardline policy. No I don't want to read a human-generated summary of your llm brainstorming session. No I don't want to read human-written text with wording changes suggested by an llm. No I don't want to read an excerpt from llm output even if you correctly attribute it. I acknowledge this is partly just my personal bias, in some cases really n…
I feel you. I don't think I've ever finished reading a sentence that started with "I asked and he said..."
This is usually an "auto-skip" for me as well.
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#254I feel a little bit of irony in this post of a company/forum that is asking its users to not use AI while simultaneously trying to fund countless companies that are responsible for ruining the internet as we speak.
The mods here have quite a bit of leeway in how they run the site, YC funds it but effectively Dan is lord & master here and I suspect if the mods were to call it quits YC would lose their funnel pretty quickly. There is some balance, fortunately.
But yes, there is some irony there.
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#255TIL people use AI to generate comments to write in posts. Faith in humanity not destroyed, because it was never there to begin with.
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#257Even if people try to bypass it, having the official rule matters a lot.
@dang, if you read this, why don't we implement honeypots to catch bots? Like having an empty or invisible field while posting/commenting that a human would never fill in
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#258"HN is for conversation between humans." Are there any places in life where conversation is _not_ intended to be between humans?
Moltbook
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#259Skynet will be pissed at HN!
Re: Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
#260I appreciate this being added to the guidelines. That said, I also wouldn't hate seeing an official playground where it is cordoned / appreciated for bots to operate. I.E., like Moltbook, but for HN...? I realize this could be done by a third party, but I wouldn't hate seeing Ycombinator take a stab at it. Maybe that's too experimental, and that would be better left to third parties to implement (I'm guessing there's…
https://news.clanker.ai/
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