This will almost certainly be used by people to sanity check their HN submissions before actually submitting, very similar to having AI review your branch before submitting a PR.
Here is what it has to say about itself: https://news.ysimulator.run/item/113
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> I like how "mimics HN discussion" is basically just "randomly assigns someone to be pedantic about curl vs wget" with extra steps
bahah
Or like Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal show on HBO Max. Also, the show's subreddit has a companion subreddit for posting to before you post to the real one.
A friend of mine was speculating about the same thing. I'm totally happy with it just existing as a toy, but if it serves some useful purpose, even better!
I love that this very point is in fact one that it generated against itself!
https://news.ysimulator.run/item/336
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