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1. peterldowns · 1789582993 · focus · HN ↗

   How did this new account `vertigoruntime` get three posts on the front page, all in the last day?

   - This post

   - The DeepMind Institute <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49727659">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49727659

   - Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49723408">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49723408

   based on their account submission history they have a 25% hit rate (!) Seems very, very weird.

   1. rgbrgb · 1789583274 · focus · HN ↗

      maybe someone wrote a classifier (or LLM wrapper) to find posts that will rank on hn

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