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What's the point of fake comments, let alone talking with yourself using alt accounts?

Do you think potential users will trust someone who posts fake comments?


Effectively a dupe - this just got attention 3 months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39672947, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39677009) and 8 months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38144417).

Once a year has been suggested as the typical maximum frequency: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9775868 . Consider reposting in 2025.

Also, coordinating comments and upvotes won’t do you any favors. It’s an easy way to get all submissions banned.


This is _not_ a repost from our perspective. This is a massive new chunk of features and content (993 pull requests from 256 contributors) including new hot-topic features like Virtual Geometry.


The GP comment is a bit overstated (I doubt anyone is going to ban Bevy posts) but Bevy has had plenty of recent exposure on HN and most release posts are moderated away on HN because the discussion is almost always about the project in general rather than the release, unless the changes are truly monumental.

A long modsplanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071428

Recent big Bevy articles:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38144417

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39412940

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657970

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39672947

That's your last three releases plus something about a foundation, in the last year alone. It's great it's getting traction but it's also quite a bit more than most other projects as it is.


I'd rather have a few bevy posts every month than the daily deluge of AI articles.


Sure but I can't see how such a trade is either possible or on offer - it's one of the things discussed in the modsplanation blob.


The issue is that that refers to "Show HN" posts. If some engaged dev posts your updates, how is thst different from spamming every Opeani update? That's just organic interest, given that this is the one of the most well known Rust game engines, a mix of two topics that traditionally get attention here


Please reread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9775868. It says one year since it received significant attention, not one year except when a massive chunk of features and content is added. Dan explicitly addresses that case (“but that only applies after the "significant attention" test has been passed”).


Please reread it yourself: this isn't a “show HN” submission.

The relevant comment is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071428

And as you can see, the criteria is “Whether or not it contains significant new information (SNI)” which is indeed exactly the opposite of what you are saying.


> to qualify as a new Show HN there needs to be some major new development, not just a new feature

One could argue a major version qualifies. Apart from the genuine dupe 3 months ago all of these are separate stories.

dang's comment also specifically covers "show hn" posts which this is not. Some clarification from dang would be helpful though.


Your quote omits the portion where Dan explicitly addressed that case. It needs to be one year since it received “significant attention,” and also major new development. Dan’s post could be worded more clearly, though.

(We’re pretty far in the weeds here, but as long as we’re here – for all intents and purposes, this is a show HN.)


>for all intents and purposes, this is a show HN

I don't really see how. Is it a Show HN because Bevy isn't a trillion dollar corporation making the news every other day?


It appears that Show HN has special algorithmic handling, which is why you would expect stricter rules.


Good point - I just linked to the first relevant explanation. pvg linked to a much longer explanation that isn’t specific to, or about, Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071428


What a bad faith comment. How is a new version announcement a dupe? If you don’t care then you don’t have to comment.


How is a new version announcement a dupe?

Lengthy explainer here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071428


According to this, the submission is fine: it's a major version announcement, unlike the examples given in the post, with significant changes, which rule out the “the diff between Foo 1.3.3 and the last time Foo came out is not enough to support an interestingly different discussion”


'Major' to the developers and users but the focus is on the total HN audience to whom it's neither major nor minor, it's simply another Bevy release post and there have been several of these very recently. It's a pretty straightforward release dupe, all sorts of seemingly 'major' releases from huge projects get categorized and moderated like that all the time. E.g.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...

The brief frontpage life of a couple of the highly upvoted ones:

https://hnrankings.info/37701860/

https://hnrankings.info/37889790/


Then why are you linking to a post where dang spends lots of tome explaining how the criteria is “Whether or not it contains significant new information (SNI)” if you believe this criteria isn't relevant?

Because there's absolutely zero doubt that this release matches this criteria.


I didn't say anything of the sort so I don't understand the question. The post looks like a completely routine release dupe to me and you can check that yourself by searching for your favourite projects with the search box at the bottom of the page. Both of the things you pasted say exactly the opposite of what you're implying, when read in their context

Here's "SNI":

That's one reason I'm using a silly acronym: SNI! — to convey that it's a specialized use of those words. When we say things like "this is not significant new information, so we're treating this post as a dupe", or even the gentlest, most watered-down and tiptoey version of that language, there are always people who feel aggrieved on the project's behalf, as if we're putting it down or belittling the hard work of its devs. This explanation is for those readers.

It's a made up term because it's a weird, made-up local meaning, it doesn't mean 'someone who uses the project might think it's significant'. So that's why I'm linking it, because it matches this submission very well.


> The post looks like a completely routine release dupe to me

It may looks like dupe to you, but it definitely doesn't fit the description of dupe given in the comment you linked to.

> It's a made up term because it's a weird, made-up local meaning, it doesn't mean 'someone who uses the project might think it's significant'.

Please re-read the comment you linked to, because it indeed defines what constitute SNI in a pretty clear fashion, and by this definition the aforementioned post definitely contains SNI.

Or maybe you didn't even both reading the actual post you are commenting, and because of that you fail to see how a “Bevy 0.14” post could contain SNI.

Now that I'm thinking about it, it's the most likely answer because I don't see how someone who's read the post could claim in good faith that it doesn't fit the description of SNI. Even just the implementation of Unreal Nanite in Bevy by itself is well beyond this bar, and it's only a fraction of the diff that the post is talking about.


Don’t rely on my assessment, go read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9775868. If you disagree, don’t tell me, suggest an improvement to Dan.


You've pointing a a “Show HN”, it obviously doesn't apply to other kinds of posts (or are you gonna limit OpenAI's announcement links to once a year too ? ;)


These are different articles being posted, not dupes.


Thanks for editing out the line where you told me to go get my brain checked.


Not sure what you’re talking about. Perhaps you saw a different comment.


> don’t tell me

You are the one initiative here.


> Effectively a dupe - this just got attention 3 months ago

Wait until you realize Rust new version makes it to the front page every 6 weeks… (It's a bit less true these days because Rust release are much more boring than they used to, but it was definitely the case just a couple years back)


Head over to the full text (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10899630/) and find in the page for “sleep”. Excerpt:

> Covariates included … drinking status (never drinker/past drinker/current drinker), body mass index (kg/m2), physical activity (metabolic equivalent hours per week (METs-h/week), sleep hours (hours/day)

They also break down sleep hours by cohort, with roughly 12 minutes/day less sleep among high nighttime eaters.


Check out my comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40392631#40392877. As I wrote, head over to https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/ , where you can have every version of that debate in an environment that's designed for it.

Here are some to start: https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/search?q=assisted+suic...



I bought an AirGradient indoor meter and ran into 3 significant undocumented problems, 2 of which affect CO2:

1. The VOC readings use a relative scale and it's relative to a floating value: the last 24 hours. If a VOC source is present for more than 24 hours, it will quietly become part of the baseline value (100). You can read more here: https://forum.airgradient.com/t/measurement-values-for-the-a... , https://forum.airgradient.com/t/measurement-values-for-the-a...

2. The CO2 measurements re-calibrate to the lowest value detected every week (as ~400 ppm clean air). If it's not exposed to clean air every week, the readings will drift. When users asked how this worked, calibration hadn't been thought about much, if at all: https://forum.airgradient.com/t/model-number-for-co2-calibra... , https://forum.airgradient.com/t/model-number-for-co2-calibra...

3. The graphs don't show reboots, even though reboots (always?) reset the baselines. Reboots happen relatively frequently due to software updates. So, even the relative scale can change without any entry on the graph.

I was pretty annoyed because it didn't seem like the company had thought through the user experience enough to even encounter these questions, let alone consider the best implementation (or at least document the flaws in whatever they're able to implement). This is the whole purpose of the product. The company means well and tries hard, but at some point good intentions matter less than the product.


Achim, founder of AirGradient here.

These are all valid points that came up at the beginning of the year and we took this feedback very seriously.

I'm happy to let you know that we have implemented already point 1) and 2) in the latest firmware version.

You can now set the "learning gain offset" for TVOC and NOx from the default 24h to basically 1 year. As a result the monitor will behave much more like an absolute TVOC monitor as the baseline reset is much longer.

We have also implemented the automatic baseline calibration period, which you can now set to a much longer period than one week.

We are also looking into feeding the last vale back into the sensor to avoid the reboot issue but this is more tricky to implement.

By the way, if you compare the granularity that we offer now to fine tune the sensor modules, I'm not aware of any competitor offering the same feature set. But we won't stop here. We currently working on fine tuning compensation algorithms for PM.



Look for the “Search tools” dropdown menu. Change “All results” to “Verbatim” mode: https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/google-verbatim


I had about the same experience as I wrote about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40501084

Basically, let me use the app anonymously and get some value from it, so that (a) I want to act on something (save it, come back and continue learning, whatever), and (b) it’s earned some trust. Lead with value instead of leading with a signup form.


> I don’t know who to reach out to

If the other answers here don't answer your question, there's a contact email address on https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.


I can’t see the contact Email on that page. Is it because I’m on a Smart phone?


No, it’s because you need to read closer :-) Find for “hn@“

That said, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650590 answered your question as thoroughly as anyone can.


Thanks!


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