[latexr]

Something felt off about your comments, so I checked your account. You signed up almost six years ago, and in all that time made zero submissions and your only comments are these two on this thread? I’ve been seeing this more and more on HN. What exactly is going on here?

[spprashant]

Looks like they logged in the first time in years to make a post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46975123

And decided to jump in on some threads just as well.

[latexr]

That post happened six hours after the comments. Doesn’t seem plausible they logged in to do it then got distracted.

[blharr]

That post also looks suspiciously like AI slop

[usefulposter]

Yep. Two latest comments are full of LLM tells, plus an LLM-generated Show HN.

As usual with modern Claudes and GPT-5s, the output repeats and overemphasizes jargon from the input tokens without clarifying or switching up the wording.

[efreak]

This perfectly describes my former experience with Reddit: I used to browse quite frequently without being logged in. If I wanted to post a reply badly enough to bother with logging in, I would then start commenting on other parts as well; the next day I'd likely be logged out again and not be willing to bother with signing in again for a few more months. Though this did change when the I started using mobile apps more.

[greenchair]

HN is a psy-op.