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Actually in the beginning it tried to be a community but they forced it to be only an answer machine. They created and enforced a rule against anything outside of the strict Q&A format.


such as... git


It's never the wrong time to link this TFA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242


Only since the end of 2025, which is when AI agents got really popular, and also when GitHub moved to Azure. Take your pick of potential causes.


Once, a GAN model that was trained to convert between satellite images and drawn maps was caught encoding the original satellite image in imperceptible dots

The field of ML is Goodhart's law reified. We might have temporarily forgotten some of the basics of the field amidst this LLM craze.


https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.02950 (2017)

…if you’re curious and missed that one like I did. Snack-sized paper with lots of satisfying visual examples.


Any access to a watermark detector can be used to remove the watermark. Presumably they want to be able to track who is doing that.


With the way our economy works, you're not actually wrong though.


What do you mean by "the way our economy works"?

On reflection, it's a great convenience to leave your cart around. So I think cart pushing is a valuable service to provide, and leaving your cart should be fine if it's stable and not in the way of anything.


Circumventing a technological measure has been interpreted extremely broadly. Deobfuscation could be covered.


Trying to align them to either "side" is likely a mistake. They are their own separate entity.


Certainly. I just didn't think that they would be basically funding NK combat training.


AI wrote the readme so it's unsurprising


For all we know an AI bot wrote the above comment as well.

This is a worrying trend on HN. Nearly for all submissions, there is one unquantified, unproven comment at the top saying it's AI, with just emotion and no proof. This is the new witch hunt, or karma farming without having to contribute anything positive to the discussion.


> Nearly for all submissions, there is one unquantified, unproven comment at the top saying it's AI, with just emotion and no proof

nearly all of the commits in the repo are co-authored by claude


It is proven because Claude is listed as a contributor. Its not proof-less and completely emotion based



you could just go straight to the source instead of speculating. read the readme. it's obviously AI.


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