Tuesday, December 9, 2025

New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?

Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
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As various LLMs become more and more popular, so does comments with "I asked Gemini, and Gemini said ....". While the guidelines were written (and iterated on) during a different time, it seems like it might be time to have a discussion about if those sort of comments should be welcomed on HN or not. Some examples: - https://ift.tt/z3c4gEy - https://ift.tt/yqevF49 - https://ift.tt/vAjS41W Personally, I'm on HN for the human conversation, and large LLM-generated texts just get in the way of reading real text from real humans (assumed, at least). What do you think? Should responses that basically boil down to "I asked $LLM about $X, and here is what $LLM said:" be allowed on HN, and the guidelines updated to state that people shouldn't critique it (similar to other guidelines currently), or should a new guideline be added to ask people from refrain from copy-pasting large LLM responses into the comments, or something else completely?

New best story on Hacker News: Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case

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