Individual account signup date is an unreliable proxy for lifetime HN experience :^)

Further, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079 suggests HN is facing a sea change unlike any past fad (Big Data, VR/AR, NFT, Web3, ...). Due to Brandolini's law, it cannot simply be disregarded with the "semi-noob illusion as old as the hills" cudgel.

Sure; this isn’t my first account either. I did ask for forgiveness for the assumption!

This may actually be a solid way to tackle the bullshit asymmetry problem caused by drive-by LLM sloppers.

I always laugh because I've been practicing prompting every single day for the last few years, if they want to start a prompt fight, brother let me at 'em.

>I wonder if the script itself was written by an LLM before obfuscation?

I seem to recall seeing an Akamai-branded base64'd shell script on a white shirt pre-2021(?), so unless they've changed the code since then, I doubt it...

Yeah, I'll stick with the oneliner.

https://ghloc.vercel.app/kageroumado/adrafinil?branch=main

For me, it's GPT-5.9 Year of the Whisper-Quiet Maytag Dishmaster

I think Aramco GPT Coca Cola 6.0 will be a step change.

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Fascinating!

Every conversation you have with these "more capable" models will be monitored and joined up and then your entire account might one day be tagged as Distiller or Cyber Threat Actor or whatnot. When combined with identity verification (which isn't discussed in this press release), expect people to be falsely flagged and banned from ever using OpenAI models again.

Wish I could find the thread from last week where discussions of exactly this kind of thing were dismissed as daft and outlandish.

> falsely flagged and banned from ever using GPT models again

That would be the best case scenario. More realistically a few wrong prompts is going to get you on a government list, and if you’re an immigrant some dark cell.

... they have been doing this the entire time

Filter what? Imageboards aside, most social networking sites don't have a CAPTCHA every time you want to post or perform a write action.

You got it backwards. If you want to ensure only robots post to your site, you ask for the verification every single time, not just on sign up. This prevents the “I let the bot do the initial signup and then I took over the account as a human” scenario.

But since you built the bot, you can have it do anything? Answer all HATCHAS and then do anything according to my instructions?

Simply use a browser plugin (or any other mechanism) that invokes the agent when the "HATCHA" appears.

“Simply”

Even if they did it wouldn't stop a human from interdicting.

>This still makes no sense to me, for practical applications.

Now you're getting it! :^)

Exactly my question. 600 lines of Swift-in-shell-wrapper and Claude couldn't have run sysdiagnose and vibed out a quick report to throw into Feedback Assistant?

Same thing nowadays :^)

It always was.