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Marion Milner, 'The Toleration of Conflict', Occupational Psychology, 17, 1, January 1943
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Please send HN questions to hn@ycombinator.com.
Of course, it's impossible to know for sure what was LLM processed or not, but some of your posts (like this one) have been getting classified that way.
NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890733 - Sept 2026 (401 comments)
Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49410814 - Aug 2026 (44 comments)
Of course, it's impossible to know for sure what was LLM processed or not, but some of your posts (like this one) have been getting classified that way.
The report is certainly useful! but there is no way that the two threads would remain partitioned, with one about the model in general and another about this report in particular.
Therefore the later submission, although the link is different, needs to be treated as a dupe. The solution is to merge the threads while including the new link prominently in the other thread, so readers don't lose access to it. I've done that now by putting https://aleph-alpha.com/downloads/tech-report.pdf into the toptext of the main thread.
Btw, this is the the same logic that we applied in merging https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943034 into the primary thread. Both links are useful, but the discussions were so overlapping that they needed to be merged.
(This comment was originally posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943034, but we're merging the threads.)
Of course, it's impossible to know for sure what was LLM processed or not, but this post did get classified that way. That's why the software flagged it.
p.s. It's a great comment! no problem on that level
Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942706 - Oct 2026 (46 comments)
Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943034 - Oct 2026 (162 comments)
Of course, it's impossible to know for sure what was LLM processed or not, but your comment here did get classified that way.
Everyone is biased in the sense of having their own view, I don't see anything disrespectful in the post—he goes out of his way to avoid that—and he is hardly presenting himself as a "therapist".
Edit:
Ai yai yai, it turns out you've been breaking the site guidelines on an epic scale:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937772 ("people like you who seek to destroy humanity")
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933538 ("If you weren’t a complete idiot")
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933430 ("bootlickers like you [...] You’re one of the worst people on this website")
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933412 ("You have no clue what you’re talking about")
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933385 ("you can barely engage with the topic and come to a strong conclusion which is entirely delusional. You’re truly a specimen")
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933327 ("You’re not engaging with anything in reality. [...] People like you just invent a fantasy to get angry at.")
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933257 ("You’re the entitled one [...] you’re angry the people being stolen from want a livelihood.")
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49767963 ("Do you understand anything [...] or are you just cheering on the death of things you don’t understand?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49767923 ("You just have no idea how the world actually works.")
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763223 ("I think you’re a bad person [...] wasting people’s time.")
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763102 ("you’re just making up a bunch of nonsense out of nowhere. Are you a vegetable?")
All that is just the tip of quite an iceberg. We can't have people posting like this here, obviously, and we ban accounts that do.
I'm not going to ban you just now, because you obviously know a lot about some topics, and I'm hoping that you just didn't understand the intent of the site and got carried away. However, if you keep posting like this, we will certainly end up banning your account. If you want to use HN as intended, please read the rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to them going forward.
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?")