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I need to build a bot that detects and replies to these comments:

"Because n people voted it so.

'On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.'"

+1, and Honestly this is much more in topic for hackers than "how to avoid to get gamed by your VC in ten rules".

Wait, there's more to hacking than funding and getting acquired?

hacking has nothing to do with money. It is a side effect that a few hackers will get rich. May will just contribute a lot of interesting things for a normal salary, possibly doing this great things in their free time.

Agreed. Especially because these replies so seldom make an argument: they rarely say, "this shouldn't be on Hacker News for well-considered reasons x, y, and z." They (usually) just make assumptions about what should or shouldn't be on HN.

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