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Alex Martsinovich
Personal blog · distantprovince.by/postsprogrammingai
Alex Martsinovich writes All Posts, a personal blog at distantprovince.by about programming and ai. Since 2025, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “It's rude to show AI output to people”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on AI etiquette, 'It's rude to show AI output', as the reference for not pasting raw LLM output into discussions. Commenters cite it, and one keeps it to send to people.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- It's rude to show AI output to people7 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2025-07-19
What Hacker News says?
From your link > not twisted to give misleading impressions Pretending something is worse because people don't do it is misleading (whether the other person is aware of the bias/fallacy or not) > LLMs are trained on vast corpus of human writing and so have an extremely large amount of latent understanding of tone of language [citation needed] Also https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-... > bec…
Comment linking /posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/
on “GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation”Submitted It's rude to show AI output to people as a story · 321 points
HN discussionI think many subscribe to this philosophy: https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-... Your github research/ links are an interesting case of this. On one hand, late AI adopters may appreciate your example prompts and outputs. But it feels like trivially reproducible noise to expert LLM users, especially if they are unaware of your reputation for substantive work. The HN AI pushback then drowns o…
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on “Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS”Submitted A Farewell to Code Reviews as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI keep this link handy to send to such coworkers/people: https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-...
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on “Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?”Submitted PostHog Elixir SDK is good as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhat quoted text? > The stance is incoherent. Mine? Explain how. Yours? Certainly: > your glib and punchy response: its more important that people are rewarded for their ramen recipes than it is for the masses to have access to the general form and guidance of how to make ramen You argue as if without statistical models this knowledge is lost or unavailable. This is clearly not the case - otherwise what would those…
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on “This website is for humans”Submitted AI future will be nothing like present as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe 'it's rude to show your ai(llm) output' is a reference to this: https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-...
Comment linking /posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/
on “Who Invented Backpropagation?”https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-... In any case, if you really believe mmap is great for an assembler, then sure, go ahead. But it's not.
Comment linking /posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/
on “How is Ultrassembler so fast?”Similar article = https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-... > My own take on AI etiquette is that AI output can only be relayed if it's either adopted as your own or there is explicit consent from the receiving party.
Comment linking /posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/
on “I know you didn't write this”Don't just post raw LLM output. If anyone wanted that they could ask an LLM themselves. https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-...
Comment linking /posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/
on “The AI Takeover Checklist: A Devil's Advocate Audit”