Why are there so many dead comments from new accounts?

Because despite what HN users seem to think, HN is a LLM-infested hellscape to the same degree as Reddit, if not more.

You’re absolutely right! HN isn’t just LLM-infested hellscape, it’s a completely new paradigm of machine assisted chocolate-infused information generation.

Just let me know which type of information goo you'd like me to generate, and I'll tailor the perfect one for you.

But what should we do? The parent company isn't transparent about communicating the seriousness of this problem

It really seems it's mostly AI comments on this. Maybe this topic is attractive to all the bots.

This title might have triggered something in those bots; most of them have sneaky AI SaaS links in their bio.

Honestly, I never expected this post to become so popular. It was just the outcome of a weekend practice session.

They all seem to be slop comments.