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He is the author of unlurker

https://github.com/jasonthorsness/unlurker

I had no idea what this was... Is this an ongoing problem on HN or something?

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yeah, that's how I found it - I had no idea what it was until I clicked on his profile. I personally haven't noticed it, but this comment really stood out, and I really hope this doesn't become a thing

I don't think he's using it to post AI slop, moreso to find himself in actively ongoing conversations on HN.

Gotcha, phew. I went through the repo and found no obvious comment posting module

I mean. Not in THAT repo. /s

Still: Seems ripe for abuse.

Bad actors ruin nice toys for the rest of us.

Nothing about unlurker is abusive; it’s just another one of the dozens of front-ends to HN. If anything seems abusive I’ll change it.

Now I’m paranoid that my comments sound like an LLM. I write all my own comments without LLM “assistance”. I actually am somewhat anti-AI in that regard so this comment chain is causing me some anxiety :p

Also I use do use unlurker probably mostly as a stubborn insistence on using something I spent a lot of time on and to try to be more active, but ironically I just saw this article on the front page of the real site not on unlurker. I mostly develop in golang so found it pretty interesting albeit a bit extreme.

I respect anyone who uses the tools they made, and actually I didn't even know this tool existed, and will be trying it out after work, so it at least brought some attention to your tool!

I think we're going to see more people being accused of using AI because of word choice. The way I read your message outside of the one word you chose to use, it read like a genuine opinion of yours.

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