Came here to post the same thing, not only is it derivative over HTTP 418 Teapot, but it's generated with AI.
I'm amazed how people think they are contributing anything by being a meat proxy. In the cases of serious proposals it's hard to disprove, but in the case of a joke, it's just ridiculous on its face.
I get that there was a fridge hack, but there's also no jokes regarding that, it's just a bland HTTP 418 like RFC but with teapots replaced with Fridges
[−]woadwarrior01 · 2026-11-15 Sun 16:50 UTC ·
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Incidentally, isn't outsourcing one's judgement to Pangram, also a case of being a meat proxy? :D
If you can't see what's different between spamming synthetic text as being one's own, and incorporating 2 bits of entropy from Pangram into my analysis, I don't know what to tell ya.
> Please don't put generated text in HN posts. Write your text yourself—HN is for sharing between humans. For the same reason, please don't automate posting.
This is definitely a gray area (AI in linked articles but not on HN itself) that HN will need to reckon with someday.
I really wish the mods would automatically pangram-scan submissions that reach the frontpage and let users filter them if they want to...
In the meantime, I'm building a browser extension that adds a visible mark to HN links flagged by Pangram as AI-generated. That way I won't waste my time reading them, or if I do read them at least I'll know what I can expect. The idea is to have an open index of pangram results for HN articles, which the extension downloads, giving the user the option to mark (or even remove) articles that exceed a threshold of their choosing. Pangram credits are expensive, though.
I'm amazed how people think they are contributing anything by being a meat proxy. In the cases of serious proposals it's hard to disprove, but in the case of a joke, it's just ridiculous on its face.
I get that there was a fridge hack, but there's also no jokes regarding that, it's just a bland HTTP 418 like RFC but with teapots replaced with Fridges
Please don't complain about tangential annoyances. They're too common to be interesting.
> Please don't put generated text in HN posts. Write your text yourself—HN is for sharing between humans. For the same reason, please don't automate posting.
This is definitely a gray area (AI in linked articles but not on HN itself) that HN will need to reckon with someday.
In the meantime, I'm building a browser extension that adds a visible mark to HN links flagged by Pangram as AI-generated. That way I won't waste my time reading them, or if I do read them at least I'll know what I can expect. The idea is to have an open index of pangram results for HN articles, which the extension downloads, giving the user the option to mark (or even remove) articles that exceed a threshold of their choosing. Pangram credits are expensive, though.