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Re:Vim Macros for Beancount by icy on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @10:36AM (#44952029)
tangled being in alpha has no bearing on the submitted content whatsoever. i’m confused by this comment.

the author being anonymous doesn’t matter either? there’s tons of good software written by pseudonymous authors.

i don’t understand what the “federation risks” even means so i won’t bother.

the last point is a bit of a giveaway that this is llm generated and you didn’t actually click on the link yourself. fwiw the code is entirely available for you to look at.

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Re:Vim Macros for Beancount by Bengalilol on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @10:40AM (#44952079)
My excuses. I went too far (and too quickly)

(Yes, I used a LLM to check it and copy paste without any review, all shame on me)

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Re:Vim Macros for Beancount by weepingwi11ow on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @10:52AM (#44952234)
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s...
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Re:Vim Macros for Beancount by AnthOlei on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @01:06PM (#44953761)
Does anyone else think this method of discourse incredibly rude? This poster posted a quasi researched comment that looks surface credible. A HN user took the time to respond to each point - only for the response to the response to be “whoops sorry, wasted your time!”

Feels like a breach of social contract. I used to see help requests that were well written as a signal of effort - as in “I’ll put in the effort to help since they did”

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Re:Vim Macros for Beancount by soupbowl on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @01:23PM (#44953947)
It was rude and HN would be better off if you just stopped commenting if your level of effort is this low.
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