You guys may have unrealistic expectations. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here.

If you're asking for something humanly impossible, remember that there are only 2 of us.

That doesn't sound accurate to me. I'd like to see links to this.

Can you please stop posting swipes and putdowns? Your account has been doing it repeatedly, and we're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

HN would die without new users, so that's not an option!

We're doing lots of things about bots and are actively working on this. I'd like to see links to what you (or anyone) are specifically worried about.

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"Don't be snarky."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That’s fair. I’ll delete.

No need to delete, but I appreciate the reply.

Related: The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate but Not Instantiate Consciousness - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835950 - April 2026 (52 comments)

(That one didn't make the frontpage, so we won't treat it as a dupe. - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)

"Please don't fulminate."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your comments are getting classified by our software as LLM-generated or (more likely) LLM-edited. It's impossible to be certain, of course, but if this is the case—can you please not do this? It's not allowed here - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079.

LLMs are amazing of course and we use them heavily ourselves - but not for modifying text that is to be posted to HN. Doing so leaves imprints on the language that readers are increasingly becoming allergic to, and we want HN to be a place human conversation.