Can you please make your substantive points without swipes and fulmination, as the guidelines ask (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)? It's quite a bummer to check in on a thread and see an aggressive attack sitting at the top, sucking all the oxygen out of what was otherwise a curious and fun discussion.

People are upvoting this submission because it's obviously a cool project. Yes, we ask commenters and submitters to hand-write the text they post to HN, and yes, Show HNs with genai writeups mostly aren't that interesting. Occasionally, however, one is cool, fun, and creative. HN is better off with these, even though few of us want to read generated text.

I actually emailed the submitter this morning, asking them to replace that text with something handwritten. We do that all the time, trying to salvage cool projects from getting flagged (either by the software or by users). In this case I never heard back—presumably the email didn't get through.

I decided that the text wasn't so bad and moved it to the top and re-upped the post anyway. Perhaps that was a mistake—but if I hadn't, this post would probably never have gotten attention. Given how enthusiastic the community response has been (and no, it is not a voting ring), that would have been a loss for the site.

Society is in a complicated process of figuring out the best ways to use AI. It's not clear what the conventions will end up being. Many people have many takes. Some of them break HN's rules—but often they haven't the foggiest idea there even is such a rule.

How about we don't assume deceptive intentions or seek to send others to hell during what is obviously an entirely-in-flux situation which will probably be going on for years?

Edit: please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50434775 as well because you're breaking the site guidelines in many places at the moment, and that is not cool.