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What's actually mind-blowing is how mice aren't already living till an age of 100. I mean, they've literally cured cancer, what's your excuse now, huh?
There's something to investigate here.
Made me notice I'm actually exposed to very similar crap on other places. Scary.
“They Said Immigration Was a Crisis — Then THIS Happened to Jobs, Growth, and Local Communities”
“Everyone Expected Chaos… Instead This City Welcomed Newcomers and Its Economy EXPLODED”
“Doctors, Teachers, Builders: The ‘Immigration Problem’ Quietly Fixed a Problem No One Talks About”
“This ‘Risky’ Policy Was Supposed to Fail — Now Other Countries Are Rushing to Copy It”
“From ‘Unmanageable’ to Unstoppable: How One Tough Challenge Became a Surprising Success Story”
I have a lot of fun with this.
Actually worth a shot, thanks!
This kind of thing is fun once. And it was a lot of fun when the AI-generated fake HN was posted was last week.
But there's no need to post this kind of stuff every week. The novelty wears off. And it gets boring and silly pretty quickly.
I know about lucky 10000. It's the XKCD joke that is being used as an excuse to justify every banal post these days. Almost like modus operandus now. Party A makes a banal post. Party B questions why a banal post deserves to be on the front page. Party C says 'lucky 10000'.
There may be lucky 10000 but it's boring and silly for me. Good for he lucky 10000, but it's distracting when this kind of AI spam hits the front page every week. Show HN posts already gets special appearance at /show which I think is enough for this kind of stuff.
How perfectly accommodating does life have to be to not annoy you?
I don't need to tell you the answer. You are neither my mom nor my therapist.
Just as you are bothered by my comment enough to leave this comment, I'm bothered by banal low-effort AI-generated spam from reaching front page enough that I left my comment.
(1) people who didn't see the original post from last week (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632), for whom the follow-up is therefore new and interesting;
(2) people who did see the original post but appreciate the follow-ups as fun and amusing variations on the theme, and therefore want them on the frontpage.
But from a moderation point of view we can't prioritize either of those cases, since doing so would be globally suboptimal, i.e. they would make the site less interesting overall in the long run.
[editing - bear with me...]
Yes, this is always the dynamic with follow-ups. Curiosity value diminishes sharply with repetition. More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329337
Edit: Just found it HN deleted emojis!
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On a more serious note, it's a bit sad how close this is to actual algorithm-driven social media or news-based platforms.
hackernews is algorithm-driven too; the difference is incentives (namely paid ads)
Should instead say personalised algorithms and targeted ads.
But more seriously, get off youtube or curate your stream if this is a common thing. I thankfully don't get it much myself.
HN ought to indicate these titles in ALL RED.
WSJ, FT, BLM, too many to count.
(I'm not kidding, a ton of people will watch e.g. movie trailers or live streamed events through one of many reaction streamers so they get prompted on how to feel. I hated laugh tracks back then, I hate reaction streamers now, let me have my own feelings!)
It’s better.
At least the HuffPo of the last decade was like this. They haven't been relevant for many years it seems.
As to its founder: http://www.thestacksreader.com/the-many-faces-of-arianna/
Some platforms might buy this as an engagement booster.
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