No discouragement taken :) Thanks for the question.

Some people have asked for a "No AI" version of HN. That's one possibility.

Another possibility is to just stop cloning comments, so that only the articles are mirrored, and then launch the site. There would be few comments, but that might be a feature. I sometimes miss when HN was small.

A third is to AI-generate the comments. That way it's like https://reddit.com/r/subsimulatorgpt2.