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by furyofantares 209 days ago
Yep, it's another slop. We are getting these about daily now where there's lots of comments on articles that'd are clearly slop.

Half the article is paragraph headings, the other half is bullet points or numbered lists, if there was anything interesting in the prompt it'd been erased by an LLM which has turned it into an infodump with no perspective, nothing to convey, and I have no ability to tell what if anything might have been important to the author (besides blog clicks and maybe the title).

I really wish we could start recognizing these sooner, I think too many people skim and then go to the comments section but I don't think we really want HN to be a place filled with low value articles just because they're good jumping off points for comments.

I've been flagging them here and then heading over to kagi and marking as slop there. Makes me wish we had something similar here rather than just "flag".

And I know we aren't supposed to comment when we flag, but this feels different to me, like we've got to collectively learn to notice this better or we need better tools.