[genezeta]

Stuff marked [dead] on the first page of /newest right now:

- A Chrome extension for tracking dramas. It appears to have been re-submitted, as the link was previously shared just yesterday (and it was dead, too), but this particular author has a lot of dead links which seems peculiar.

- Questionnaire for a school project. I don't know what this is because it's a Google docs link and I'm not going to open it. But also because the submitter doesn't even bother mentioning what the "chosen subject" is. I don't really care much that this is dead.

- "Trillion Ton Iceberg, Worlds Largest, Crashes into South Georgia" a youtube video which is hardly a video since it's just a bunch of AI generated illustrations and appears to be fairly grandiose but low on actual sources and info. meh

- A link to a tweet from an account that "applies AI" to put your face on a ballerina animation. Yawn.

- Spam for a "IT solutions for healthcare" company.

- A link submitted by someone who has all dead submissions on their profile. Uhmm...

- Spam to a blog about AI, I guess.

All in all, I'm setting showdead back to no again.

P.S. Meanwhile, I counted about 5 or 6 links sent from newly created users which are there happily unflagged.

[dredmorbius]

NB: if you come across a profile whose submissions or comments are all "dead", they've likely been banned or shadowbanned.

You can use the "replies" endpoint to see if dang (or one of the other/earlier mods: sctb or pg) have replied directly to the user with a ban message, e.g.:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/replies?id=genezeta&by=dang

Or as a link: <https://news.ycombinator.com/replies?id=genezeta&by=dang>

(This will show any replies by dang to you, genezeta, not necessarily ban notices.)

I've just tried that on the first non-green HN userID for a "[dead]" submission the New queue, with nothing showing, so it's a bit hit-or-miss.

Alternatively you can look at the member's submissions under their profile page. Patterns such as constantly submitting the same set of domains, especially if self-promotional, will stand out. That userID I'd checked above ... seems to have a limited range of sites they're interested in submitting:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adib_zouiten1>

Some sites are banned due to impenetrable paywalls. 404 Media is one such (with several submission in the queue presently):

<https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=404media.co>

[genezeta]

Thanks.

[bookaway]

Your impatience has betrayed you. Some examples from the next pages, that caused me to write this post:

[dead] Show HN: Try QwQ-32B for Free: Advanced AI Reasoning Model (qwq-32b.net)

[dead] Show HN: I made an AI platform that combines GPT-4o, Claude, DeepSeek and more (typethinkai.com)

[dead] Some basic primitives for PHP OpenAI Client (github.com/assistantengine)

[dead] Benchmark on Multi-Embodiment Intelligence Normative Data for Robot Manipulation (arxiv.org)

[dead] Using "tools" support (or function calling) with LangchainJS and Ollama (hashnode.dev)

[dang]

One was killed because the account was banned for being part of a spam ring.

One was killed because the account, while not banned, is breaking this guideline: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

One was killed because the site is banned on HN (in this case, because it has been the source of too many low-quality posts and too much promotional behavior).

Two look like false positives by spam filters, though it's not so easy to be sure. I've unkilled those now:

Show HN: I made an AI platform that combines GPT-4o, Claude, DeepSeek and more - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43278331

Benchmark on Multi-Embodiment Intelligence Normative Data for Robot Manipulation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43278119

[yorwba]

The QwQ one is a graft. (Whenever a new AI model is released, someone will register a related domain name, throw up a templated website and try to milk the hype.)

TypeThinkAI also looks like a graft, but at least they're honest about just being a wrapper around models produced by others?

I vouched for one of the AssistantEngine links because although the author did submit a bit too many links, the project might deserve a chance.

I also vouched for the arXiv paper.

hashnode.dev has been banned for a long time, probably because spammers use it a lot.

[genezeta]

So... except for the arxiv one, all AI related stuff. Personally I don't flag those but the overabundance of links about that can easily become tiring for people, I'd guess.