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Re:Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can c... by Frannky on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @07:11PM (#47432549)
I am very confused by the comments, they seem too excited for this... Are they real or paid bots? If they are real, kudos to OP
Re:Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can c... by Frannky on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @07:14PM (#47432572)
It may also be that I am just comment AI paranoid, but yeah, I find myself a lot guessing if there's a person behind a comment or not
Re:Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can c... by j45 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @08:23PM (#47433110)
There’s likely folks who discovered to that svgs could do many amazing things, except the tooling didn’t seem to be readily available.

Now when I see someone build something working with SVG, I check it out to see how it might compare to another way of doing it.

Re:Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can c... by mikodin on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @10:42PM (#47434222)
Unclear but I will say upon opening the site I was sparked with joy and excitement to use them
Re:Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can c... by visiwig on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:48AM (#47435073)
Hey thanks, I didn't pay for bots, unsure how to prove that though.
Re:Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can c... by oniony on Thursday March 19, 2026 @05:19AM (#47436761)
Your bank statements for the last six months should be sufficient.
Re:Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can c... by postsantum on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:23AM (#47435985)
I wish I was able to be excited over svg backgrounds. How different life would be..
Re:Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can c... by lukan on Thursday March 19, 2026 @04:03AM (#47436268)
They all seem to come from quite old HN profiles, though. So if someone managed to overtake old HN accounts for manipulation .. I would assume it would be for a more lucrative target?
Re:Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can c... by democracy on Thursday March 19, 2026 @05:48AM (#47436933)
Yes we are all paid bots, thanks for your valuable input, chump
Re:Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can c... by owebmaster on Thursday March 19, 2026 @07:13AM (#47437503)
Your behavior makes HN worse the same way AI bots do it
Re:Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can c... by ohyoutravel on Thursday March 19, 2026 @07:22AM (#47437572)
If there’s a scale of “making HN worse,” I’m not sure genuine human skepticism is on it. LLM generated walls of text and garbage Show HN posts sure are at the top though!
Re:Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can c... by ohyoutravel on Thursday March 19, 2026 @07:26AM (#47437594)
This one is quite good. The author is known, here fielding questions, and the project is like ten years old. If there are bots, I really don’t think they’re coordinated in any way with the OP, only coordinated in the usual “spam HN to get karma” sort of way.