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Did LinuxJournal publish an hallucinated article? (linuxjournal.com)
5 points by rawkode 364 days ago
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Don't editorialise HN submission titles: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9611417>
But the real title is misleading ...
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17328060>

The submitted title was (and at this writing remains) an editorialised commentary on the nature of the article, and doesn't concern the article itself.

HN certainly allows for rewriting misleading or clickbait titles, though I'd argue neither case applies here.

See: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>

Then correct it in a comment or the blurb
The guidelines say it's fine to edit misleading titles.

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

Sure, but I think the intent is that you can alter the title to make it no longer misleading.

In this case, the replacement title doesn't clarify anything or indicate what the article is about. It's just pure commentary (speculation even) about the quality of the article.

I don't think it's speculation though, since this rye-init init system clearly doesn't even exist anywhere (let alone as an Arch package), and building something that could replace SystemD is an absolutely herculean task.

Rye is a package manager for Python, written in Rust, by Astral, and there's even a rye init command that initializes a new project. That's likely what caused the hallucination.

The original poster is likely trying to get answers on how this kind of article is even a thing, and now so am I.

I can't seem to get my head around this. I've never heard of this so called init system, it's not in any repositories, and the article has strong hints of being entirely fabricated?
There's nothing on the Arch home page about this at all. Really sus.
The article feels AI to me.

RYE is the rust libraries for python right?

Yep!