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notes: posts is a personal blog at notes.zachmanson.com about programming and culture. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Copilot edited an ad into my PR”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in one HN comment as a joke about Microsoft's Copilot, pointing to a post about Copilot editing an advertisement into the author's pull request. The comment does not assess the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Copilot edited an ad into my PR2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-30
What Hacker News says?
funny enough I have a page just for tracking this also https://notes.zachmanson.com/microsoft-product-names/
Comment linking /microsoft-product-names/
on “Copilot edited an ad into my PR”Submitted Copilot edited an ad into my PR as a story · 569 points
HN discussionI have a harness built on top of pi that uses XMPP for all agent communication with me and between agents[0]. It works well, I text them from my phone and from my browser (or anything else that supports xmpp). They can communicate with each other over group chats and can schedule agent tasks using a GitHub project and a cron job. The agents run on my NixOS server in their own unix account, this is the real secret sa…
Comment linking /the-fleet/
on “Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC”Submitted Email is just paper that can teleport as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis could be done using RSS and feed:// uri scheme if it was more popular. https://notes.zachmanson.com/feed-uri-scheme/
Comment linking /feed-uri-scheme/
on “Blog Feeds”Submitted Sort by Rarity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMicrosoft has you covered: https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr... / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269
Comment linking /copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/
on “Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results”Submitted Spite Driven Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussion