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Or that they're just a person who knows how to game stars. As Goodfart says, "When a measure becomes a target, it gets gamed beyond usefulness."
Although commits can be gamed on GitHub, stars are significantly harder to game as they require human accounts to be doing so. You could game a few stars with sockpuppet accounts, but it's infeasible to game 100+ stars.
OK, so the "Storing data in the network ... " title made me remember something. If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence, and the outgoing buffer is deleted on the sending side (the original code is preserved, but the transmission-encoded sequence doesn't stick around), then that data, for 20-90 minutes, exists nowhere _except_ space. It's just random-looking electrical fluctuations that are pr…
There's a short story by Qntm called "Valuable Humans in Transit" that I like quite a bit which hinges on this subject: https://qntm.org/transi
I find these kind of posts profoundly uninteresting (woah, the n-th parody of the HN front page...) and yet they seem to always garner so many upvotes...
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To quote Foghorn Leghorn: It's a joke, son, you're supposed to laugh.
The joke was fun the first time. When the joke posts (low effort AI slop no less!) are spammed to HN every week, it stops being fun.
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> it stops being fun.
Right. Sorry. We apologise. We didn't know the joke police was monitoring.
Aka "the titles when people post these on reddit". Now you know why HN has the "no editorializing" rule. :)
reddit is a whole different beast. It does not have a sense of humor, rather it is a biased cesspool of partisanship.
For anyone over the age of 16 this comment is a loud expression of your political views.
Also, I find Reddit to be super funny. Just yesterday someone posted a photo of their brain MRI showing a tumor the size of a tennis ball and everyone, including the OP were having a great time.
The Texas one doesn't seem honest. It seems like a political narrative.
Rf.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_of_Christmas_Present
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Right now there is a lot of drift between real and honest version, so it's hard to find the original title.
If you click on the comments in the honest version, it'll redirect you to the real version.
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Yeah but I'd need to click each of them, thus the request for that feature.
I vibe coded the shit out of a Chrome extension that does that while waiting on CI/CD. Go read the content.js to make sure I'm not hacking your shit, download the repo to your computer, enable developer mode in chrome, "load unpacked", point it at the directory with those files, and enjoy your tool tips. https://github.com/fragmede/honest-hn-tooltips Edit: Took 18 minutes.