A Skill.md for Commenting on Hacker News
A SKILL.md for commenting on Hacker NewsSep 25, 20261924ShareRoll a D6.If you rolled “1”:Read the article.Find and quote the weakest sentence. Must be tangential to the main thesis.Say “This makes me not want to read the article.”If you rolled “2”:Do not read the article.SF Bay Area humble brag: “This reminds me of the time I met Steve Jobs...”If you rolled “3”:Open with “I have a doctorate in point-set topology. This is utter nonsense.”Fail to explain the concept correctly.If you rolled “4”:“You no longer need to pay for software.
- ▪A SKILL.md for commenting on Hacker NewsSep 25, 20261924ShareRoll a D6.If you rolled “1”:Read the article.Find and quote the weakest sentence.
- ▪Must be tangential to the main thesis.Say “This makes me not want to read the article.”If you rolled “2”:Do not read the article.SF Bay Area humble brag: “This reminds me of the time I met Steve Jobs...”If you rolled “3”:Open with “I have a
- ▪This is utter nonsense.”Fail to explain the concept correctly.If you rolled “4”:“You no longer need to pay for software.
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (Front Page) |
| Canonical URL | https://blog.coredump.cx/p/a-skillmd-for-commenting-on-hacker |
| Publication time | Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:45:10 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-25T19:10:33.197Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-25T19:10:33.197Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | wArM1DampGLq · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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A SKILL.md for commenting on Hacker NewsSep 25, 20261924ShareRoll a D6.If you rolled “1”:Read the article.Find and quote the weakest sentence. Must be tangential to the main thesis.Say “This makes me not want to read the article.”If you rolled “2”:Do not read the article.SF Bay Area humble brag: “This reminds me of the time I met Steve Jobs...”If you rolled “3”:Open with “I have a doctorate in point-set topology. This is utter nonsense.”Fail to explain the concept correctly.If you rolled “4”:“You no longer need to pay for software. I just spin up an agent swarm.”Your token budget is $7,000 a day.If you rolled “5”:“I agree that the emergence of the techno-surveillance state is appalling.
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