ibn_khaldun

I think the state of affairs on the moderation side is a lot more banal than you allege. But that doesn't preclude the likelihood of there being bots, shills and propagandists active.

My general gripe with the level of discourse here isn't necessarily topical as much it is based on my impression that the community has reached some sort of Dunning-Kruger-Dunbar number where the threshold of people knowledgeable in some areas who engage in curious debate in other areas has been breached by people who think the purpose of the site is winning arguments/handwringing and other nefarious actors.

The turn from your initial comment to this was about as abrupt as Hulk Hogan's in 1996.

It's apparent that AlpineBSD is meant to support some idiosyncrasies that NetBSD isn't guaranteed to accommodate.

> * For users who want to avoid AI-generated code, why run this rather than netbsd itself?

To start a community.

> So it behooves the HN owners/mods to have some sort of system to analyze everything and do some inferences for insight even if they don't act on it immediately.

This would be useful. As of right now it looks like HN is leaving that sort of analysis up to its users. Which is fine. But if this is going to be the case then a coordinated effort is necessary to help spring the mods to action.

Printing a web page (or a PDF) is not unreasonable provided the content is two pages or more and it's something that invites itself to depth and close reading or some sort of value like ordinary print.

Your everyday blog is not worth the cost or effort. Nor is a Wikipedia entry.

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This offers an interesting glimpse into the dynamics of a changing world…