theorchid

I submitted a Tell HN post. It got 80 upvotes in an hour and hit the front page. However, about an hour later the post disappeared from the front page and from pages 2 and 3. It's now only visible in the Ask section.

If the full text of the post is hosted directly on Hacker News, how does the algorithm detect upvote manipulation and hide it from the front page?

People often share a direct link with friends, who then click and upvote. Could the algorithm interpret this kind of organic sharing as manipulation?

Are there any other reasons why a post might disappear from the front page?

My post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230104

I found GitHub repositories that were spreading malware. I asked AI what I should do about it, but it gave me nothing useful. So I opened a discussion on GitHub. Someone replied. It was literally the exact same text the AI had given me. I called it out and the comment was deleted. Then another person replied. Same exact AI response again.

I worked as a developer in a company. I asked the business owner a question about a business task. He sent me a ChatGPT screenshot with the answer. I replied that it had nothing to do with the question and everything there was wrong. A minute later he sent me another ChatGPT screenshot. He didn't even read the AI's answer. He just screenshots and forwards it.

Recently someone sent me a DM on Reddit about my post. I replied. He wrote again, I replied again. After a few messages I realized I was talking to an AI agent.

I'm tired of talking to AI. I want to talk to real people. But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI's answer.

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When launching a startup, don’t make it multilingual until you have stable revenue and a team to support it. You can’t know whether the startup will become profitable, so early on, your time is better spent finding PMF and acquiring users. AI can write scripts to manage translation files and help with text translation, but the quality will still be poor. Users might as well use the browser’s built-in translator.

If you build the service in 10 languages right away, you’ll struggle to maintain it. Every interface change means updating translation files across all languages, even though most of your users will likely understand an English interface anyway. But if you’re building for a specific country, build it in that country’s language and don’t add English. Even two languages at the start are worse than one. With a single language, you can keep text directly in the code instead of splitting it into separate translation files.

My blog: orchidfiles.com

— Why did my last post on X get 0 impressions? Is it a shadowban?

— It’s not necessarily a shadowban. First, X shows the post to a small group of followers, and if there are no reactions, it doesn’t push it any further.

— So it showed the post to 0 people, got 0 reactions, and didn’t show it to anyone else?

— Yes.

— But if there were 0 impressions, how could there be reactions?

— Maybe the stats just haven’t updated. Try posting this from another account.

— The stats haven’t updated in 2 days? Why would I post it from another account?

— You’re right. I got sidetracked. Going back to your original question. First, X shows the post to a small group...

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Right now I have over 10K tasks written down across all my projects. If I completed one task every day, it would take me 30 years to complete all of them. But when I do a task, I get new ideas and write down a few more new tasks. My task list will never end. The number of tasks in it only grows every day.

Writing down a task doesn’t mean I have to do it. It just frees up mental space. When I write something down, I don’t spend time assigning priorities or deadlines. An idea comes up, I save it to a file right away, and I’m done thinking about it.

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