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I think it's a bot? There's an identical version of this comment in another reply, except it cuts off half way through a sentence.

I hit reply on the wrong post and you can't delete comments or at least I don't see how it can be done

Above the comments I've written on HN I see:

5 minutes ago | parent | next | edit | delete

That only lasts for a few minutes until it’s locked and you can no longer delete after that.

It lasts 2 full hours, at least for edit. Delete stops working when someone replies afaik.

because I clicked reply on the wrong one and you can't delete it...

Of course I can’t prove it, but i am guessing some kind of “AI” is doing that. Humans rarely use emdashes.

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Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

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

Please don't break the site guidelines, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

You're right about em dashes of course (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154752) but being right on a point does not make it ok to attack another user or violate the rules of the site.

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