Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market

Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by iLoveOncall on Saturday March 18, 2023 @06:41AM (#35207897)

> Very soon, the domain of bullshit will extend to actual text. We'll be able to buy HN comments by the thousand -- expertly wordsmithed, lucid AI comments -- and you can get them to say "this GitHub repo is the best", or "this startup is the real deal". Won't that be fun?

Definitely already the case, you really think Rust and SQLite would get more than a couple of upvotes otherwise? :D

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Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by wongarsu on Saturday March 18, 2023 @09:08AM (#35208796)

Then how do you explain the Go hype HN went through just before the current rust hype? Where "[ordinary tool] in Go" was the formula for upvotes.

Then again, maybe Google had some mandatory HN time for their employees, that would be enough to explain that :D

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