alt Hacker NewsWarning: Another bot account.
This one's a bit more clever in that it's not entirely new -- it's from 2016.
Here's some examples from 6 days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=fdefitte&next=470679...
Comment 1: 2026-02-18T23:45:12 1771458312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067991
Comment 2: 2026-02-18T23:45:32 1771458332 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067994
20 seconds between its comments.
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or another example:
Comment 1: 2026-02-18T20:06:49 1771445209 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47065649
Comment 2: 2026-02-18T20:07:12 1771445232 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47065653
23 seconds between its comments.
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efilife • today at 2:42 AM
If not for the "not x but y" I wouldn't be able to tell. Very sneaky
Sure, and we've banned the account, but please email us rather than posting comments like this. [email protected].