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smusamashah · 2025-01-24T06:30:56 1737700256

That comment by karpathy was not made in bad faith. It's clearly an experiment done right here on HN so we can judge the tool ourselves.

dang · 2025-01-24T20:24:27 1737750267

Oh I agree! I thought about saying that but decided it would be confusing, but I guess it was also confusing not to.

What karpathy was doing is obviously in the spirit of the site [1], and HN has always been a spirit-of-the-law place, not a letter-of-the-law place [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

karaterobot · 2025-01-24T14:45:54 1737729954

Would you consider updating the guidelines to this effect?

dang · 2025-01-24T20:25:59 1737750359

Yes, but I sort of feel like it's a corollary of the existing ones.