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It is truly odd in a way. You had posts here about Google managers or execs saying AI coded something solid in a few days what their own team were working on for months or years, or something along those lines. But people seem to ignore that creating a clone of your favorite "Claw" product seems like an ideal first project for the sea of mid or senior engineers that haven't dipped their toes into the vibe-coding ocean.

You have people talking about the tired topic of the lack of moat for AI businesses. But people should be calling out the moat that most tech businesses take for granted. Forget the moat that prevents other businesses, what about the moat that prevents your own users from creating your own product "from scratch"?

>Netflix is what you put on while you are doing other things.

Yeah, I watch all films I consider worth seeing in the theater frankly. I rarely have nightmarishly disruptive movie going experiences. Any disruptions are minuscule compared to the infinite attention distractions at home or on any viewing portal connected to the internet.

And sometimes I go specifically for the rowdy crowd experience. For example, watching Grand Theft Hamlet with a appreciative (and somewhat drunk) rowdy crowd in the theater was fucking fantastic. Ironically, someone in Riot Games, the company that decided to stream Arcane on Netflix, also knew this very well when they rented movie theaters across the world and had screening events ahead of official Netflix release dates for episodes from the the latest Arcane season -- for an audience mostly composed of ballistic League of Legend cosplaying gen Zs and alphas.

>Work should be based on results

The people who play politics also have their work judged by results. Getting yourself promoted to head a project that prints money for the company with little cost doesn't necessarily cause the project to stop printing money.

>it's amusing how brown is used here.

Brown here is being used here to mean Brown University. In what way do you find it amusing.

Yes, and unfortunately the “desire” for scientific research of everyday life is hard to maintain because frankly in our current times it has dawned on many that scientific research is unable, by itself, to prevent or limit actions taken that fly in the face of the said research. So some domain experts have realized that upping their social media game is a better investment than broadening their scientific research efforts, because you’ve already lost if you are unable to derail a delusional narrative in real time. It’s the era of yellow journalism 2.0.

Thanks for the explanation dang.

>Posts by new and low-karma users are not automatically killed. Anyone can see that by looking at the /newest page.

>[let us] know about them at [email protected] so we can fix it

You’re right to chastise me about the title. I had to remove all the qualifiers to meet the title character limit (also negative-> neg for that reason), so the title was more chicken little than I would have liked, but I did leave the qualifiers in the explanation, where I wasn’t claiming that all noobie posts were getting killed. My primary intention was to warn some of the good faith noobies who looked like they were getting caught up in the spam filter, and a post that noobies could see seemed to be a more appropriate venue for that. I didn't think my post would provide any extra utility to spammers. I apologize if the person that emailed you wasn’t a good-faith noobie poster concerned about their own posts.

But overall, because of the information asymmetry, I do think you underestimate the positive impact on the community of you coming out of the woodwork to provide explanations about specific instances once in awhile, as much as you loath to do so it seems.

e.g. TIL approx +50% of noobie posts are potential spam at a given time.

>it means that they shares (let's say) the gussed city name with Microsoft.

I'm not sure I understand or maybe I'm missing something, sharing the guessed city is not "technically" sharing your IP address? (I understand that it's still sharing more info than what you thought)

Let's say the steps are:

1. You type in "exhibition" to ddg

2. DDG sends "exhibition in <guessed city>" to Bing using its own random datacenter IP address

3. Sends you back results

Did it now "share your IP address with Microsoft"?

>Then again, you did assume that this was done automatically.

If you see multiple [dead] stories that are minutes old by different users that have non-clickbait tech titles it is not unreasonable to think auto-moderation is a more likely explanation than someone manually killing every single post in near real-time by keeping a filter algorithm in their head and manually checking whether each expression in that algorithm is true or false.

>I don't find it hilarious.

If YC was asking for AI startup submissions but HN was auto-killing noobie AI submissions I would find that hilarious in a black comedy sense. Pity we don't share the same absurdist humor.

Your impatience has betrayed you. Some examples from the next pages, that caused me to write this post:

[dead] Show HN: Try QwQ-32B for Free: Advanced AI Reasoning Model (qwq-32b.net)

[dead] Show HN: I made an AI platform that combines GPT-4o, Claude, DeepSeek and more (typethinkai.com)

[dead] Some basic primitives for PHP OpenAI Client (github.com/assistantengine)

[dead] Benchmark on Multi-Embodiment Intelligence Normative Data for Robot Manipulation (arxiv.org)

[dead] Using "tools" support (or function calling) with LangchainJS and Ollama (hashnode.dev)

If you go to the "lists" page there is literally a "noobstories" page, because someone deemed that that would be an interesting filter for some people to explore. What's the point of posting if you're a noob if you know your legit post is going to be auto-killed and no-one is going to see it?

Good-faith posters should know that this is what is happening (assuming the auto-killing is intentional and not a bug) so they can go and try to build enough karma from their comments before posting a story.

I have no idea how random the librewolf maintainers are but the next iteration raising the bar for high-impact open source projects should definitely have a checkbox for "has a key maintainer with a active public profile/streetcred in industry" on the checklist.