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I think there's another factor: it takes time to find the best ways of using such new tools. This is something the community is working out slowly (as is society generally) and this is naturally a lagging phenomenon.
Seeing generated sites like OP and karpathy's HackerTube (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319510) which look good and don't have the obvious-LLM sameiness that so many others do, is an interesting step along this way.
The idea is: if you have a substantive point, make it thoughtfully; if not, please don't comment until you do.
This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Edit: and it looks like we've had to ask you this multiple times already.
A comment like the GP quickly pattern-matches as snark and dismissal because those are so common on the internet. In other words, if you don't intend your comment that way, you need to do something to disambiguate this. Your follow-up comment does this nicely.
The reason this happens is that we all tend to take our intent for granted and forget that it exists in our head and isn't accessible to others unless we make it explicit. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
This also leads to a fascinating (to me at least!) phenomenon where the reply to a moderation comment (i.e. your follow-up here) makes explicit the thought which the commenter meant to communicate. What's fascinating is how different this is from what they originally posted. I call this the rebound effect. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
You can like or dislike generated images (if that's what they are—I haven't looked) but this post has nothing to do with scamming anyone, and given the wealth of technical information in the thread, including a video showing the product under development, that seems like a really weird claim to arrive at.
A tasteless sex reference is one thing, but shallow-curmudgeonly dismissal of new work is the real sin here!
Edit: the more that I think about it the cooler and more important this feature seems!
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
p.s. Especially please don't do this when a thread is brand new. Such comments are the easiest to post, and therefore the quickest to appear, but by posting them, you steer the discussion straight away from the curious, thoughtful conversation we want here. Threads are extremely sensitive to initial conditions, so this is important.
Sam Altman says DRAM capacity should go to data centers, not personal computers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50324267 - Nov 2026 (78 comments)
Altman says 'quite terrible' for your PCs to have RAM - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307635 - Oct 2026 (2 comments)
Sam Altman says the chip supply chain's invisible hand failing and DRAM is why - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307595 - Oct 2026 (1 comment)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says You Having DRAM Instead of Data Centers Is "Terrible" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50306361 - Oct 2026 (9 comments)
Sam Altman Thinks It's 'Terrible' for You to Have RAM in Your Gaming PC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50306197 - Oct 2026 (9 comments)
Sam Altman Thinks You're Wasting DRAM - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305797 - Oct 2026 (115 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
It's obviously a riler-upper and therefore off topic for Hacker News. In fact, with its revved-up linkbait title and ragepilled content, it's an exemplar of what this site is not for.
Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22941144 - April 2020 (661 comments)
Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055304 - Oct 2026 (1007 comments)
I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508506 - Aug 2026 (239 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think of you as a good HN contributor, but you've been posting a lot of unsubstantive comments lately, and breaking the site guidelines in other ways too. Can you please stop doing this, and return to using HN in the intended spirit? Your substantive, thoughtful points are welcome, but not comments like this current one, nor these (to pick a few examples):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280377
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
They (mostly) stop in 2023 because we added it to a spam filter
The search results are a bit polluted by this helpful wag: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dQw4w9WgXcQ
If you do, let us know and we'll put it in the SCP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email [email protected] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Hopefully karpathy can fix it! I've got an idea for a new thread to suck in a whole bunch more interesting videos, but it won't be as fun if they don't show up on hackertube