by ChrisArchitect
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- Related from last year:
Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45071722
- I don't comment much but I have read everything that Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, and because of him, have always used em-dashes on my writing. I think I even saw some memes in circles that discuss his work when people started realizing GPT used them a lot...
- Gotta love starting the y-axis above 0
- This is interesting. I just fixed a Github issue where the code did not handle Em-Dash correctly. Ran some queries to check the stats there. No surprises:
https://deepspaceplace.com/emdash
by ortusdux
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- Did AI raise awareness of Em-dashes, causing more people to use them organically?
- Classic case of hacking the axis to exaggerate a point.
It went from 19.3 to 32.5. It did not even double. Which means that if you see a comment with an em-dash, it's more likely to be human than LLM.
- me waiting for the "the rise of posts analyzing the rise of the em-dash on hacker news" posts
- I just learnt that em dash in a mac is option+shift+hyphen. I hadn't realized it was so difficult and inconvenient, and in the end it looks so similar to the other one: — -. Thin value. It's no surprise humans barely use them. Then why did it get picked up so much by AIs? I'd have imagined it's not in a lot of training data. Print media practices I guess?
by crazygringo
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- How is it picking the comments?
If it's all comments, including flagged/dead/downvoted/etc., then it's not reflective of the actual filtering HN does.
But if it's weighting comments by their likelihood of being read -- e.g. mostly top comments on popular stories -- then I'd be a lot more curious.
I'm not surprised AI spam has increased substantially. But I'd be surprised if it's affected the comments most people actually read to anywhere close to the degree shown in this graph.
- real unlock - https://trends.google.com/explore?q=real%20unlock&date=all&g...
key insight - https://trends.google.com/explore?q=key%2520insight&date=all...
etc.
by Rekindle8090
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- I'll stand firm on my believe that no one types an em or en dash. its always an llm. its a pain in the ass to type on most keyboards, impossible on some, and pointless on phones
- You can pry my em dash—short for "Emily's dash", after the poet—from my cold dead hands.
- stylometric analysis can be used to profile you. so if you were using em-dashes, this is good news. it helps you blend in better than before
- Now someone do "the rise of Hacker News meta-analysis blog posts".
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by andrewclunn
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- [dead]
- WooooooOOOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOOOOoooooo—
— A spooky ghost
WooooooOOOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOOOOoooooo-
- A less spooky ghost
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