Great - I've added https://anteloc.github.io/index-samples.html to the toptext, along with the last sentence of your comment here. I hope that's ok!
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Marion Milner, 'The Toleration of Conflict', Occupational Psychology, 17, 1, January 1943
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I had to go back 79 days and what felt like hundreds of posts to find any exception (something about heat pumps I think!), but then scrolling further back just led through reams more of the same. That means your account is definitely on the wrong side of the "primarily" test (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...)
To say that you're simply correcting inaccuracies and misinformation doesn't really work because the question of what counts as accurate vs. misinformation is hotly disputed. It is basically the entirety of the battle.
On the other hand, your comments have mostly (though not entirely) been avoiding the more degraded forms of guidelines breakage that people resort to in these threads - things like snark, name-calling, and from there into personal attacks, slurs, and so on. That's good, but it's not enough—if you want to keep posting on HN we need you not to use the site primarily for political battle (broadly construed).
Why ban the other account and not yours? The primary difference is that your account does have a history of using HN as intended. I had to go (too) far back to find it, but it was there. In such a case we prefer to warn first, not ban outright. The other difference is that I saw a lot more cases of the other account breaking the site guidelines egregiously. That combination (no history of using HN as intended + breaking the guidelines egregiously) is what tends to push us across the warn/ban line.
But no—to address the question that people often wonder about—this is not about either person's views about the underlying topic. Moderation would be exactly the same if the positions were flipped, and indeed often has been.
Generally it's not so good to silently edit a post in a way that deprives a reply of its original context. It's better to mark the comment as having been edited. Not doing so risks being disrespectful to the other commenter and to readers, and is even—the internet being what it is—sometimes used as a passive-aggressive trick to make a reply sound foolish after the fact.
I don't believe that was the intention here though—most likely paimapi was simply reacting to "can you please edit out the swipes".
And even if it were, we can cut some slack because (1) it sucks to get a moderation reply. We know it stings, despite applying every way we know to not come across that way; and (2) if the corrections make the comment into a more positive contribution to the discussion, we all win—especially when the comment has a lot of good information in it, which paimapi's posts do.
Btw, when we post moderation replies in that way, it's because of the good things in the comment, not the bad things. We have a different way of responding to all-bad comments.
I'm not saying your critique is wrong, nor (more importantly) uninteresting. What makes it interesting is the second sentence, which—not by coincidence—is the most specific.
But do please edit out swipes like "This is laughably inaccurate" - this is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, and your comment would be fine (if a bit too generic) without that bit.
I think this post would be even better if there were more visual examples to look at. Would it be possible to link to more pictures, or even a demo video, showing different cool and/or weird things produced by the tool?
(In terms of video, you don't need anything fancy - what works best is raw and direct, with zero production values.)
Also, another thing that isn't clear to me is whether you've built any of these structures physically. If so, it would be particularly cool to see that in action! If not, it would be interesting to know what it would take to do so.
> and (I guess) my post on Show HN was rejected... Anyway, I hope I'm not bothering anyone by posting this outside Show HN, or posting almost the same thing twice.
Unfortunately we had to put some barriers in place (https://news.ycombinator.com/showlim) because we got flooded, and still are, with Show HNs from new accounts which lack the spark of curiosity that is most important here. The hope is people will take the time to read the site, participate in threads, get a feel for the culture, and eventually post a Show HN that is a better fit.
None of that applies to your project, and if we had a better way to screen these things, we'd write software that let posts like yours through the first time. In any case I'm glad I randomly saw this one, and welcome to HN!
Dead posts are removed from public view, but you can still see them by turning the 'showdead' setting on in your profile. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
If you turn 'showdead' on, please don't forget that you did! As your last sentence implies, turning it on means signing up to see a ton of dreck. (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
You'll also see posts that don't deserve to be [dead] and for that we have something called vouching - also in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html ("What does [dead] mean?")
The issue is the kind of community we're trying to have here. In deciding what counts as a good contribution, that has to be the high order bit.
At a minimum, one thing that requires is not punishing people for being wrong. We're all wrong, after all.
If you know more than someone else does, that's great—but in that case please share some of what you know, so we can all learn, and please do it without resorting to putdowns or swipes.
I know that takes more time and energy, but in this way you make an enduring positive contribution instead of an ephemeral destructive one. Curious conversation is fragile; it can't withstand many kicks and blows.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
But is an interesting border case - it's in the DMZ of mostly-genai-but-with-a-human wrapper. We don't know what to do with those yet, and neither do the classifiers.
In this specific case I suppose it's probably better not to paste the output of an LLM into an HN thread, since anyone who wants to can ask one themselves. But if you wanted to rephrase what you learned in your own words, that would presumably be ok.
Is it true that “the only ”intuitive“ interface is the nipple”? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4412372 - Aug 2012 (23 comments)
It's fine, of course, to disagree; we just want conversation to stay in the key of curiosity: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
You may not owe cartels better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
Of course, it's impossible to know for sure what was LLM processed or not, but this post got classified that way.
AI as Normal Technology - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43697717 - April 2025 (92 comments)
(Reposts are fine after a year or so; links to past threads are just to satisfy extra-curious readers)
Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837350 - Sept 2026 (96 comments)
Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830606 - Sept 2026 (551 comments)
DLARC amateur radio library tops 90k items - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37537870 - Sept 2023 (17 comments)
Internet Archive Seeks Material for Library of Amateur Radio and Communications - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33089535 - Oct 2022 (72 comments)
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI–until now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933740
The legend of John von Neumann (1973) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8212335 - Aug 2014 (65 comments)
The Legend of John von Neumann - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1427906 - June 2010 (4 comments)
(Reposts are fine after a year or so; links to past threads are just to satisfy extra-curious readers)