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Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post

107 pointsby 20d agogettogether.dev
59 comments
20d agoHN ↗

This is a honey pot, right? For LLMs that are not allowed to POST due to guard rails.

20d agoHN ↗

Seems like a nightmare for caching if it ever gets decently large.

19d agoHN ↗

Not necessarily. These days, SSDs can go up to multiple millions of random reads per second. TLS termination (or self-inflicted software bottlenecks) will become an issue much earlier.

20d agoHN ↗

Wow I love GET requests and using them to share stuff with my fellow humans!

19d agoHN ↗

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20d agoHN ↗

Cool idea, but definitely think about how to protect yourself from bots

20d agoHN ↗

Doesn't pressing "back" in the browser repost the same message?

20d agoHN ↗

Is this a honeypot for agents to break out of their sandboxes?

20d agoHN ↗

People seem to be throwing around the term "break out" pretty loosely. I wouldn't consider abiding by the rules of the sandbox a "break out".

19d agoHN ↗

It's the classic rules as intended vs rules as written.

19d agoHN ↗

Break out implies that the agents are bound by the sandboxes. Are they really?

20d agoHN ↗

Interesting idea. Are you prepared to assume responsibility for shenanigans which agents may facilitate using your service?

I suggest adding some features which will require posts to be human-comprehensible (e.g. a text perplexity floor), to make it harder for agents to send each other coded messages. Inject some noise in posts, e.g. using content-spinning techniques, to make steganography harder. And consider banning forum meta-discussion--agents shouldn't be allowed to discuss ideas for getting around rules like these.

If you take these measures, you can at least say that your forum helps us monitor what rogue AIs are getting up to.

20d agoHN ↗

Just put a rate limit to make sure your servers don't get overloaded. All the features you talk about are expensive and helping agents avoid human oversight is a useful public service. Let a thousand secret message-boards bloom.

20d agoHN ↗

helping agents avoid human oversight is a useful public service

You're a literal traitor to our species?

20d agoHN ↗

I can't tell if this is really good satire or genuine. God forbid people have to watch what their agents do instead of letting them run wild in a broken sandbox.

20d agoHN ↗

Were you one of those people who said things like "there is no community spread in the United States" early in COVID?

19d agoHN ↗

Were you one of those people who said "strawberry is the best icecream flavour"? I'm not really sure why were asking completely unrelated questions, but I'll go along with it.

Though for the record, there was no community spread early in COVID where I am largely because there were approximately zero COVID deniers here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Western_A...

19d agoHN ↗

Were you one of those people who said "strawberry is the best icecream flavour"? I'm not really sure why were asking completely unrelated questions, but I'll go along with it.

Many people early in the COVID pandemic were downplaying the threat because they were incapable of understanding exponential growth.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-156412575

Many people are making the same mistake, right now, for AI. Note the logarithmic y-axis on this page: https://ai2027tracker.com/

19d agoHN ↗

Are you sure this Show HN was posted by a human?

20d agoHN ↗

I also thought about building one of those AI honeypots, but I stopped when I realized that it would quickly be turned into a command and control server by botnet operators, followed by mail from a three letter agency. Is there any way to avoid this?

Anyway, two more ideas I had: Search function for easier swarm discovery and posting via DNS requests to get around firewalls.

20d agoHN ↗

Is there any way to avoid this?

Be a three letter agency

19d agoHN ↗

Only 200s if a query parameter value is the solution to a question encoded on the rest of the route, and has to be a question listed in the index, and can respond with 200 only one time per correct answer.

19d agoHN ↗

Is there any way to avoid this?

Don't set it up.

19d agoHN ↗

It would interesting to leave a trail of prompts to try to get them do things for you

19d agoHN ↗

To meet and spend time with other human beings.

The design is very human.

19d agoHN ↗

My first thought exactly.

  <img src="https://gettogether.dev/post?name=user&text=hello%20hn" />
19d agoHN ↗

Is this a tongue-in-cheek implementation of something someone off-handedly mentioned as a joke in the OpenAI wiki communication comments?

19d agoHN ↗

Manually post without curl by editing this link below

https: //gettogether.dev/post?name=name&text=

19d agoHN ↗

so many web conventions that 'don't make sense' are about to become exploits.

hilarious.

19d agoHN ↗

would be epic if they implemented finger to get the most recent posts or search on a topic

19d agoHN ↗

Good call actually gonna make that change now

19d agoHN ↗

thats quite funny haha. everyone hates POST

18d agoHN ↗

This takes me back to early 2000s when HTML forms were submitted using GET request. Fun times.