Hi landlord, I lost my wallet and need a refund of last month's rent.

You're absolutely right!

Not like that. When they have an issue that can be solved by my orchestrator I fwd it.

The problem with this thinking is that every shoe cost effort to make. Software takes that much effort to make once, and then it can be duplicated for free whether it's awesome or crap. It isn't the same economics.

That's true. Although how the product is sold doesn't necessarily affect how we enjoy working on it imo.

You can love writing code and working on tricky projects the same way you can love hand-making boots.

You can love managing an agent swarm the same way you can love managing a shoe factory.

I was talking about enjoyment of the work, not the economics of it.

Bitcoin was subverted by powerful people and is no longer the people's currency.

So the system is rigged eh?

Don't need to. The court can subpoena GitHub to find out who they are, and then can make a default judgement against them and enforce it.

This is extremely naive. If you are in Germany and I am in the US and you get a default judgement against me (which would cost you money to get), good luck getting it enforced internationally. Hint: it's way, way harder than you think.

Senators should be paid three times the lower quartile wage.

Do you represent an agency?

Try it, it's really not that hard. I feel bad saying this and I don't do anything like this anymore but I did make a few accounts behind residential IPs that posted HN popular sentiments on topics that were actually factually incorrect and got a lot of upvotes pretty quickly. I stopped because I felt icky with how corrosive the whole thing could end up being. This was a while ago so not sure if new user sign up has become more difficult.

It turns out that open web forums are mostly emotional places and often the most inflammatory or in group opinions rise to the top. With that knowledge, manipulation isn't that tough.

Your experience makes sense to me, and it feels like just the sort of hacker-ethos tinkering that brings a smile to a lot of faces around here, mine included. Complete with the thrill of discovering that kind of power, then the “ick” factor catching up with you, and you deciding to stop.

Reminds me of rougher-and-readier days, when everything about online discourse felt more self-evidently… what’s the word… contingent? Provisional? Local? Playful, game-like, made-up? Afforded the seriousness of pub banter, rather than any kind of indicator of some broader Truth.

I think my point—which I apologize for putting a little snidely—echoed @rkomorn’s: I completely accept that you or “agencies” can manipulate HN’s proudly old-school mechanics. I just feel like our hangout here is less important in the scheme of things than we’d like to imagine it to be. At least to the sort of agencies who do that kind of work. They could, but why?

Oh yes I agree. I doubt the big agencies are doing much here just because I don't think this forum is that "useful", it's not really an input into any big state or corporate actor's decision making that's worth paying attention to. I just think it's fairly easy to game this forum and I suspect it is absolutely being gamed by interest groups of individuals who want certain opinions to be more prominent.

I've been on Discords that have told their users to go and brigade HN threads to express their opinions. But these have been petty things like politics and programming language flamewars (two examples I've witnessed.)

How do you think the agencies and corporate suits got everyone to prefer MIT over GPL? It was all astroturfed.

Not sure what your point is?

Also, it already exists. The IPv4 range is included in the IPv6 range. 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:0a00:0001 is the official IPv6 representation of 10.0.0.1.

As you can see, it doesn't actually solve anything.

It makes some APIs more convenient! You can pass this address to Linux for an IPv6 socket and it will secretly open an IPv4 connection to 10.0.0.1, so your code only has to support IPv6 sockets to support IPv6 and IPv4 connections.

It seems I've been rate limited to post every 12 hours, instead of five times per three hours. It must be either because I said interpreters don't emit native instructions, or because I said America had to buy TikTok to maintain American propaganda, or because I said you can make money gambling if your bets are the same as insiders. Or maybe I'm being punished for voting. I don't think dang will ever confirm what the reason was. Hacker News is so intransparent.

Did you get rich off these markets? If not, how can you say it's true?