It means "anything good hackers find interesting" and anything that "sparks curious conversation."

What does that mean? I don't exactly know. Certainly nothing objective. In practice it means whatever the people flagging the thread decide it does.

Many people here will consider this categorically off topic and flag accordingly because politics doesn't satisfy theirs. Even if it's a good article, and even if the discussion is on-topic and civil.

Whether any particular country or entity can be held responsible is another question.

An engineer vibe-coding a project generates an end product, yes, but what is there to be interested in or to discuss? Chances are said engineer isn't even capable of discussing the project in any depth. Are we going to be left discussing nothing but prompts and Claude workflows, and how we got the black box to do a thing? OK. Who cares? I guess we can all politely clap and move on.

I don't know if the posted project was written by an LLM or a human, but I have to agree with localhoster than AI has sucked a lot of the joy out of a lot of HN.

That isn't obvious, given that you came back 12 days later with what seems to be a full blown conspiracy theory about a single interaction with a single poster.

>And it’s just one example I chose because it was recently in my memory?

So you are still triggered by it.

>I don’t think I implied this was the most representative possible example.

I can only reply to the comment you actually wrote, and the comment you actually wrote, which you did intend to be a representative example, doesn't do a good job of supporting your case. Feel free to post your evidence, then, I suspect it will just be more of the same.

I stand by my comment and I'm leaving the thread. Good night.

I agree your comments shouldn't have been flagged but unfortunately that sort of thing happens all the time around here. When people disagree with you and downvotes aren't enough they'll just start flagging. I don't think that's a "high karma" thing, people will start to do that as soon as they're able, which doesn't take much karma.

And, I mean, only one of the people who replied to you even has more karma than you do. So really you're just complaining about one person and conflating that into some vast systemic issue with "high karma users."

Get over it and move on. I'll get absolutely shat on by people here sometimes and have forgotten about it entirely after an hour. Nothing that happens here is worth getting triggered for over a week.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48329843

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29036441

People make farming HN a part of their business model.

There was also Polyus which was going to be an entire battle station designed to counter Reagan's SDI satellites[0], but it never made it into orbit. It had lasers, though.

[0]https://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-rise-fall-the-sovie...

Yes. And Rust people enter threads about other languages and projects not written in Rust and say they're bad because they aren't Rust. Welcome to Hacker News.

Personally I don't find a framework so reductionist that it considers the USSR and the US to be equivalent to be very useful.