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by ninjaranter 72 days ago
A comment complaining this was obviously written by an AI, and the standard template is a tell. A philosophical observation about what that says about the state on online discourse. Link to the Dead Internet Wikipedia page.
7 comments

Wistful nostalgia about the golden age of HN from an account created 11 months ago.

Bonus mention of a pg essay which the commenter clearly only read the title of.

Curmudgeonly comment from someone trying to sound like a wise elder about how actually all this was the norm even in the days of Usenet.
An unrelated comment added as a reply to the current top comment to get more views
A response appreciating the comment above for saving ones time.
A bad faith response that attempts to derail the conversation from the original article.
A snarky and insulting joke where the above commenter is the butt of the joke, calling attention to the bad faith response.
A modest plea for civility.
Off topic summary of the discourse regarding a pet peeve that litterally no one has.
A reminded that the riff raff can go to the “other site” when these threads occur.
a passive-aggressive attack from a self-righteous hilltop
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a comment that only make sense to people with showdead turned on
Nitpicky reply questioning the adherence of OP's comment to HN guidelines.
Self-aware meta commentary on HNers breaking HN guidelines to cite HN guidelines.
This is why I built [AI slop tool]. [Self promotion link to my vibe coded startup with no users]
A reference [1] in an attempt to go one level of self-reference further.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727104

An xkcd link summarising large number of all points discussed