waygtdai

Re:HN is drowning in AI comments on Saturday February 28, 2026 @10:27PM (#47203376)

That fell apart quickly due to sheer scale that AI operates at. Elsewhere in the thread a commenter mentioned a significant increase in Show HN. It is impossible to keep up. I wonder when HN will go down due to scaling issues.

Re:HN is drowning in AI comments on Saturday February 28, 2026 @10:26PM (#47203365)

I don’t care for the karma, but I wish dang would intentionally unflag this and have it on front page so people can voice their concerns.

Re:HN is drowning in AI comments on Saturday February 28, 2026 @06:58PM (#47201937)

I don’t think HN is any more resilient. The new account captcha is fairly tame and, while I’m sure they have proxy detectors and other things in place, it doesn’t stop new accounts from posting and getting traction.

Someone suggested earlier this week that an invite system should be implemented (I think lobsters has it?) I doubt it would fly here, but yeah.

Re:HN is drowning in AI comments on Saturday February 28, 2026 @06:32PM (#47201681)

I get the joke and I myself called it awhile back, I just thought we had a bit more time.

HN is drowning in AI comments

Posted by waygtdai on Saturday February 28, 2026 @06:26PM
from the self-post dept.

Dang, any updates on how you and the team were thinking of tackling this? It’s getting ridiculous. Last week was sort of okay but it’s much worse this weekend.Edit: This spiked on front page and now it’s completely gone. What is going on?Great. Flagged.

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Re:747s and Coding Agents on Saturday February 28, 2026 @05:26PM (#47200969)

Yeah. HN is fucked. It’s over with the amount of AI comments. Especially recently with more captcha breaking, etc.

Human posters need to start saying obscene things or making unsafe/violent statements to ensure the comment isn’t just AI generated.