Comment by iLoveOncall
1 month ago
It has been like this for more than a year, a lot longer than just the past couple of months.
HackerNews, just like all other platforms, is heavily astroturfed and the big AI labs have bots commenting and voting, so it'll never end.
The only solution is a platform that only allows humans, with a proof of humanity before posting anything, but not too sure what that can be, and it would ultimately be unsuccessful.
But we have to see the positive, at least less posts about SQLite make it to the frontpage.
> big AI labs have bots commenting and voting
I'd love to see some proof of this.
Turn on showdead and watch the AI bros yell into the void.
All I ever see are the Anti's and the crazies? Like the guy (who is in this very post) who keeps opening accounts to complain about Claude related posts and saying various slurs. Almost feels like the old days when Terry Davis would post technical rants with slurs applied liberally.
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> proof of humanity
I'm just wondering how you'd do that. Only thing I can see working is a web of trust.
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