alt Hacker NewsThis submission was on the front page of HN yesterday (Show HN: How random are you?):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074909
The top comment:
> This is a nice spin on the Aaronson oracle:
> In a class I taught at Berkeley, I did an experiment where I wrote a simple little program that would let people type either “f” or “d” and would predict which key they were going to push next
And today we have a web app of this that seems fully generated by Claude.
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Acknowledging the sibling post that this seems to have preceded the article from yesterday, but,
Your conclusion actually seems like a perfectly efficient end state of new product generation: Novel ideas land on HN > Built and validated immediately.
Haven’t HN posts always just been on some spectrum between, “New and interesting problem identified” and “New and interesting problem solved for, please critique”.
I.e., HN is simply a RFP+PR (pull request) marketplace.
The last commit of the github project [0] is 2 months old.
[0] https://github.com/hyphen656/Oracle