I built an interactive HN Simulator

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Hey HN! Just for fun, I built an interactive Hacker News Simulator.You can submit text posts and links, just like the real HN. But on HN Simulator, all of the comments are generated by LLMs + generate instantly.The best way to use it (IMHO) is to submit a text post or a curl-able URL here: https://news.ysimulator.run/submit. You don't need an account to post.When you do that, various prompts will be built from a library of commenter archetypes, moods, and shapes. The AI commenters will actually respond to your text post and/or submitted link.I really wanted it to feel real, and I think the project mostly delivers on that. When I was developing it, I kept getting confused between which tab wa

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Website: news.ysimulator.run/news