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HN tips:

# AI Vague Posting

Don't take the vague comment bait! Vague comments about how <Claude/Specific model> magically solved someone's problem, with no details - just downvote and move on.

# Anything GrapheneOS

Don't bother engaging in anything but sycophancy. They're watching and manipulating. Not worth the mass karma hit/unjustified flags. Look at the 'grapheneos' and 'strcat' HN account history - a ton of reply-spam, constant accusations of being a victim, very little genuine conversation to be had.

Obvious GOS fans/staff who show up to every GOS post include: other8026, HybridStatAnim8, microtonal. Most don't disclose their connection in their comments, which is the done thing here. Very disrespectful.

On their Discord people are invited to opt-in to "to mentions for help addressing inaccurate media coverage of GrapheneOS". [0]

And on their Mastadon they have previously specifically asked followers to manipulate HN.

Bonus hilarious dramatainment: https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3mzm2j56ws22q . The dev goes on a rampage every time his name is mentioned - yet he can't help but keep engaging (or directing people to) engage on this site! Just stay way if you don't like it here. ("They're clearly mainly there for Y Combinator's business interests." - yes, and you and your mods on your own socials are for your own business interests too.)

# Posts critical of big tech (FAANG etc)

They'll likely have a long top-level comment along the lines of "let me explain why this isn't quite right/not as bad as it seems". Just skip over that

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