Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

Re:Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users? by ManuelKiessling on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @04:58PM (#43977652)

I really love using the em dash, especially now that I’ve learned how easy it is to type one the iOS and macOS keyboards — but the risk of being labeled an AI now really takes the fun away.

Butvthe normal dash is just wrong in most contexts it is used, and I simply cannot stand this.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users? by ryandamm on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @06:49PM (#43978639)

Agreed, I'm torn between my pedantry for adhering to style guides and being pilloried for seeming like an AI. There's no safe ground anymore.

(Though I used to use the em dash with spaces on either side — like this — and only recently converted to the more common, tighter spacing—like this. I might go back to my old ways since it's different from how AI uses them, like some sort of weird shibboleth.)

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