| ▲ | ZeWaka 12 hours ago |
| The strangest part is the weird commenting accounts have pretty old account ages. |
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| ▲ | quadrifoliate 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I don't know if you're demonstrating reductio ad absurdum, but maybe that's because they are genuine? As people in the thread have pointed out, the author as well as their company is pretty well-known in software circles. They have had multiple projects discussed on HN in the past[1]. 2000 stars is not a lot given that [2]. I fail to understand why a ton of breathless blog posts about the process of AI-assisted coding are more interesting to HNers than some of the actual code (potentially, not claiming anything about it) written. Maybe you or the GP could actually say what you think are "weird comments" and why you think this is being "boted"? --------------- [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... [2] Why are people obsessed with star counts? I at least only star things to bookmark them, not vouch for them in any way. It does not seem unreasonable to me that 5 times as many people bookmarked the repo in the early days than are using it on npm. Also, npm is not necessary, the author shows at least 2 other ways to use it (direct download, link to GitHub pages) which will not show up in npm stats. |
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| ▲ | sfdlkj3jk342a 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | > I love it. We need to see more of this. > Use of semantic elements is an interesting take. I'll give it a try. > Thank you for this, can’t wait to use. Minimalism at its best. > Good one. Presentation is good too. Thanks These are the kind of comments you see from Indians paid to boost Youtube content. | | |
| ▲ | n_e 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | An explanation that would fit both the old accounts and the artificial comments would be that they were encouraged by the author to comment (which is against the HN rules). | |
| ▲ | skeledrew 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I'm on the other side of the planet, generally not a fan of web dev, and heartily agree with the sentiments in that comment. | | |
| ▲ | hkt 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Same here, DevOps by trade, allergic to ridiculous frontend nonsense, my comment praised the framework. |
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| ▲ | jonathanstrange 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | They're probably just Indians using the framework saying "thanks." India has the largest population on Earth, they're close to 1.5 billion now. I think some people underestimate what that means. | |
| ▲ | quadrifoliate 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | This seems like some pretty lazy analysis to be honest. Following the first comment you quoted... > I love it. We need to see more of this. ...shows that the author talks about using a “Chase card abroad” in a previous comment [1], which means they cannot be Indian as Chase doesn't issue cards or have substantial operations in India. I don't want to run around following specific comment authors back through their threads, but as an Indian by birth it is pretty hurtful to see this kind of drive-by casual characterization of an population in a space like this. It also seems to be pretty contrary to the HN guidelines (“Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.”) -------------- [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46535775 |
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| ▲ | debarshri 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It is probably not bots. The reach of authors is pretty good. He actually loyal fan followers in india. You can see the same when he shows up on a podcast or talk. I think theres alot indian developers who are hacker news as well as on github and other forums. |
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| ▲ | e2le 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Perhaps stolen accounts? I doubt every user is practising good security hygiene with a unique password per each account. Password leaks from other sites might well allow a motivated individual to hijack some here. |
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| ▲ | leke 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | I could speculate that someone in the past had the business mindset to create thousands of accounts over multiple sites and offers the ability to loan them out for a period of time. |
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| ▲ | gas9S9zw3P9c 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| If you search you can easily find sites to buy aged HN accounts, lots of them. Just like reddit accounts. |
