Stackroboflow
AI
text generation
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
35 positive, 35 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 77 comments about the project. Thread score +0.41.
Execution: 25 for, 3 againstIdea: 8 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Funny and realistic-looking generated questions
From 4 comments
This one is golden: "What's the best way to indeed start a process on an OS x machine? What is the best way to start a process on Mac OS x Snow Leopard? There I just need to be…
aur09 on HNThis is great... “I'm getting errors with Line 1, Line 39, Column million” lol
silveroriole on HNFinal question didn’t end in a question mark - perfect! “I want to do something like this $ _ -1 = object();” We all do.... Now I see that the virtual question is different every…
code_duck on HNNice! This is also what every question looked like when I was new to programming.
sampleinajar on HN
Convincing tokenization and context switching between languages
From 1 comment
I created this site using a Fast.ai trained language model using the Stack Overflow data dump. Full writeup available here: https://stackroboflow.com/about/index.html Interesting…
yeldarb on HN
Objections
Generated code has broken whitespace and formatting
From 2 comments
I presume this is due to tokenization or something, but there's a lot of extra whitespace in the code samples that make them look very unrealistic: ``` def _ _ init__(self,…
jpatokal on HNI think it would still be considered a "Does Not Exist"-valid website if the generated questions would have some auto-formatter for the code. Main issue I see is extra spaces…
aboutruby on HN
Fake content could flood online communities
From 2 comments
This is like a mental tarpit, where you waste time reading trying to understand what the person is saying only to realize they were a bot and all your effort was for nothing,…
veryworried on HNTerrifying -> inevitable. Imagine a botnet full of fake AI users trained with a corpus of legit HN posts. Let them loose commenting on random articles, beginning slowly but…
ryandrake on HN
Requests
Generate expert answers
From 1 comment
This desperately needs some AI-generated expert answers!
drdaeman on HN
Generate questions from other StackExchange sites
From 1 comment
I can claim to have experience [0] with generating funny nonsense based on Stackoverflow data (what a wired thing to say :)) Seems like you beat me to my plan to make a Neural…
Findus23 on HN
Questions
Why do words repeat in generated text?
From 1 comment
Huh, in this question, there are a lot of words that get repeated five consecutive times: https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/13733 Is there a reason why? (I don't know…
TheAsprngHacker on HN
Alternatives named
thispersondoesnotexist.com
From 1 comment
This is similar to thispersondoesnotexist.com thisresumedoesnotexist.com
deepsy on HN
git man page generator
From 1 comment
Reminds me of https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/, which I always found hilarious :)
ggambetta on HN