Comment by RealityVoid
3 hours ago
Ok, what is going on in the comments here? I get people liking the article but this many comments just to say they liked it is very un-HN to me. Smells like bots to me.
3 hours ago
Ok, what is going on in the comments here? I get people liking the article but this many comments just to say they liked it is very un-HN to me. Smells like bots to me.
Taking a quick look at the commenter's in question, it seems possible that the person who wrote the article asked people they know to boost it on yc. They don't appear to be bots at least.
Author of the article here.
No, I haven't asked anyone to upvote or comment. It was posted 2-3 days ago, there were no upvotes. And I was feeling concerned. (I am doing this full time and getting on top of HN for my own work was a dream). I had written articles on bevy and also posted on HN (in last 6 months). But they hardly got any traction on HN.
Not sure what happened today, I saw traffic from HN and was surprised to see this on #8.
I also noticed few comments looked LLM generated, but I am not sure why someone would do it, I mean the incentive.