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Ask HN: Forbid Reddit HN Submissions?

nateb2022 — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:11:20 +0000

cc @dang

Reddit has been filling up with AI generated content. Either bots engaging with naïf audiences who don't realize they're bots, or supposed humans who defend their giant copy/pastes as somehow justifiable as a spellchecked/proofread version.

I don't believe AI generated slop posts deserve consideration, either on HN or Reddit. If people rather not take the time to write something as long as these AI outputs, they're free to write a prompt-length post instead of forcing us to read the AI equivalent of a zipbomb. We can't control what people post on Reddit but I think we should have higher standards here and that Reddit has gone to the point that only very very selective submissions from there should be accepted.

On a tangent, does anyone know of a browser extension I can use to easily hide or at least highlight in red likely AI generated text?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234774

Points: 4

# Comments: 5

New comment by nateb2022 in ""Don't Be Evil" Was a Lie from the Start (2024)"

nateb2022 — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:05:12 +0000

I agree with the sentiment although the post seems unnecessarily vitriolic. It's AI generated however, and I don't believe AI generated slop posts deserve consideration, either on HN or Reddit. If they rather not take the time to write something that long, they're free to write a prompt-length post instead of forcing us to read the AI equivalent of a zipbomb.

New comment by nateb2022 in "Gemini 3.5 deleted 28,745 lines, broke production, and wrote a fake post-mortem"

nateb2022 — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:01:11 +0000

This is a completely AI generated Reddit slop post. Most of the Reddit OP's comments are also AI generated. Lately I've seen a lot of AI-esque activity on Reddit, especially especially in Codex/Claude Code subs. Which is not surprising, but I find it hard to believe that anyone would take the time to copy/paste LLM responses that consistently. I think it's bots.

CotEditor: Plain-Text Editor for macOS

nateb2022 — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:31:03 +0000

Article URL: https://coteditor.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234429

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nateb2022 in "Mado: Fast Markdown linter written in Rust"

nateb2022 — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:03:02 +0000

Mado is older (~April 2024) vs rumdl (~March 2025). It's also faster, per rumdl's own benchmark graph.

Mado is purely a linter; rumdl is also a partial formatter, and offers a LSP.

Panache has a well written and broader comparison between these, and other tools here: https://panache.bz/guide/comparison.html

New comment by nateb2022 in "Localmaxxing"

nateb2022 — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:43:38 +0000

Have you noticed a gap between 8bit and 4bit quant? I've always ran 4bit quant cause less memory required

New comment by nateb2022 in "Localmaxxing"

nateb2022 — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:17:51 +0000

Comparing to Opus is a little unfair, a comparison against Haiku would be more fair. And for a really fast cloud model, I'd be interested to see how latency stacks up against GPT-5.3 Instant or Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite.