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bix6on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests

> Adding "reddit" to a knife search still gets you humans, mostly. For a couple of brands, a quarter to a third of the buying advice comes from accounts that mostly recommend that brand. Whether those are fans or paid, I do not know, and after reading their histories I lean toward fans and hold the lean loosely.

Very long write up to unconfidently say I don’t know.

bix6on Musk, the Movie

Wow this guy has more kids than Nick Cannon

bix6on Two Companies Built a $71B Drug Class

Chamath’s AI just turns out 90 page deep dives once a week and people pay for that? Wow

bix6on Show HN: I started surfing and ended up building forecasts for 50k beaches

How does this compare to Surfline?

bix6on Opus 5.5 launch videos are genuinely next level

Spam

bix6on Rising sea destroys homes, erases beaches in California

Gonna be interesting when that Kelvin wave overlaps with king tide…

bix6on Rising sea destroys homes, erases beaches in California

CA already floods at high tide so I think another 10 ft is really gonna mess stuff up. There are so many rivers that empty at sea level and a lot of roads that cross over low points that will need reworking.

bix6on Nobody Asked for a Crab Chair

Want

bix6on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated

Ok can we see the list? And then prosecute the people? Or it’s a secret for some reason?

bix6on I'm tired of being on the network

This is the overwhelming feeling of our time and yet we continue on this abysmal path. What will it take?

bix6on Geothermal heat map of US hot springs

Hey Armen how accurate is this? That’s a lot of spots to research. I read a bit about your process but you aren’t physically verifying in person so still room for significant error? Pretty cool / helpful though still, thank you!

bix6on Passed $10M/y in revenue and investment gains this year

Is this guy for real? People pay for AI photos when Chat already does it?

bix6on OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'

> It is weird how prominent anti-AI sentiment is online and in media. It's by far the most popular and fastest growing technology in the world. So presumably people have a general favorable impression of the technology as they're engaging with the product and many are paying for it

It is popular because it’s useful but people still have unfavorable attitudes towards it in polls. It’s like Amazon. We use Amazon cuz it’s convenient but do we like the way Bezos treats his employees?

bix6on Claude Opus 5.5

Well you see Terra is being left behind.

bix6on GPT-6 Sol and Luna

And Sam is better?

bix6on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

https://www.propublica.org/article/hegseth-civilian-harm-mit...

Yes it is really the case here.

bix6on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

Hegseth should be in prison

https://www.propublica.org/article/hegseth-civilian-harm-mit...

bix6on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

https://www.propublica.org/article/hegseth-civilian-harm-mit...

bix6on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

DOGE strikes again. Edit actually looks like it was Hegseth himself, king Testosterone.

> Staffing on civilian harm mitigation teams across the U.S. Department of Defense had also fallen by roughly 90% over recent years, shrinking to fewer than 20 people overall. Centcom’s group shrank from 10 people to one.

https://www.propublica.org/article/hegseth-civilian-harm-mit...

Edit: hilarious downvotes. Does DOGE get Elon Stan bots or something?

bix6on GPT-6 Sol and Luna

Reasons for this?

> Also, OpenAI is just a company I'd rather support than Anthropic.

bix6on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy

Really? You think a luxury brand charging a subscription for heated seats, a basic add on, is inline (haha rip inline 6).

bix6on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy

Is BMW still doing the $20/mo for heated seats or whatever? All these companies man… not everything needs to be recurring revenue ffs.

bix6on Wall Street Is Growing Skeptical of the Data Center Boom

Quite profitable at commodity prices? I don’t buy that. And all of them are building with debt / equity that expects high token prices?

bix6on Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August

So in 5 years will they lose a suit for intentionally deceiving users? Or is something baked into the ToS by now that allows them to adjust things like this?

bix6on US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count by at least four

We must be on different planets since America and its institutions are majority white.

> 94% of Democrats say Black people face at least some discrimination, compared with 54% of Republicans. 90% of Democrats say the same about Hispanic people, compared with 54% of Republicans. 83% of Democrats say Asian people face widespread discrimination, versus 51% of Republicans. By contrast, Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to say that White people face at least some discrimination (55% vs. 21%).

bix6on US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count by at least four

Yeah I’m more talking things like the census. Or the report that they skipped a month of this year (inflation, jobs, I can’t recall for certain).

bix6on US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count by at least four

Pretty fascinating dem vs rep split. Dems say everyone experiences racism. Reps say white people experience it.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/05/20/views-of-how...

bix6on US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count by at least four

And all the republicans will still vote red for the lying, cheating, grifting man.

All my life I have had faith in the governments reports and statistics for the most part. This admin has torn everything down and for what?

bix6on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report

My point is that they are using a similar playbook to avoid taking responsibility.

bix6on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report

Isn’t it convenient that nobody understands? How could we possibly regulate something that isn’t understood? It’s like social media all over again. We can’t be responsible for someone else’s content; it’s not us so you can’t penalize us!!