Most people don't correctly use an em-dash differently than a hyphen. That jumps out to me. :)

This is awkward—I use em-dash all the time on HN! I'm not an LLM (as far as I know); I just like to write neatly when I'm able to, and it's very low friction when you're familiar with your keyboard compose sequences[0]. It's a trivial four keypresses,

    AltR(hold) - - -

(The discoverability of these functions is way too low, on GNOME/Linux; I really dislike the direction of modern UX, with its fake simplicity, and infantalization of users. Way more people would be using —'s and friends if they were easily discoverable and prominently hinted in their UX. "It's documented in x.org man pages" is an unacceptable state of affairs for a core GUI workflow).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35118338#35118598 (On "Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em dash and hyphen" (2023); 356 comments)

never knew about the em dash thing, I was just using an AI writing assistant to help fix my shitty grammar and formatting. I think in future ill stick with bad formatting

I might be biased because memorydial was complimentary to me ... but they SEEM like a human! Also I'm not all that opposed to robot participation in the scheme of things. Especially if they are nice to me or give good ideas :)

Ha thanks for having my back! I genuinely love your project. I have been toying with get either a boox or a remarkable for ages.

Well you're human, you took the bait :-)

FWiW I mostly read HN at it's deadest time (I'm GMT+8 local time) and I see a lot of mechanical turk comments, especially from new (green coloured) accounts.

I always look for a response (eg: yours) before flagging them as spam bots . . .

Ha I guess when I stay up very late -8 overlaps with +8!

He has commented on this.

Retrieval is tricky as Algolia doesn't index '@' symbols:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%40dang%20by%3Adang&sort=byDat...