It could be that polarizing threads end up more actively voted on compared to “cool stuff” threads. We’re not immune to social network effects after all.
It could be that polarizing threads end up more actively voted on compared to “cool stuff” threads. We’re not immune to social network effects after all.
Yeah, that's an issue only admins can address. I would prefer much more aggressive enforcement of the rules about politics, and maybe some rule changes.
I built a very crude app sourcing comments from the HN firehose, classifying them using Gemma 4 and a prompt made from the comment guidelines. It had some amusing results.
The app did a decent job at surfacing problematic comments that a mod can do something about.
It was cool to optimize llama-cpp arguments for throughput. During the slightly off-peak hours the post processing was pretty much real time. I suspect a second 3090 would’ve be enough for peak posting hours too.
Yes I think there's huge potential in this direction. Forum moderation could be made far more scalable this way. If I didn't have another project I was already working on I'd be trying it right now.