Hacker News with Generative AI: Stack Exchange

Cleo, the mathematician that tricked Stack Exchange (wikipedia.org)
Cleo was the pseudonym of an anonymous mathematician active on the mathematics Stack Exchange from 2013 to 2015, who became known for providing precise answers to complex mathematical integration problems without showing any intermediate steps.

Mathematics, Stack Exchange, Anonymity, Internet Culture

68 points by schaum 4 days ago | 9 comments

Just give the man the fish (i.e. just answer the question) (plover.com)
Last week I complained about a Math SE pathology in which OP asks a simple question, and instead of an answer gets an attempt at a socratic dialog. I ended by saying:

Math, Stack Exchange, Online Communities

27 points by camtarn 102 days ago | 15 comments

Preventing unauthorized automated access to the Stack Exchange network (stackexchange.com)
Stack Exchange is implementing four new restrictions to prevent unauthorized automated access to the network.

Security, Stack Exchange, Automation

6 points by immibis 234 days ago | 2 comments

Stack Exchange Data Dump [Archive] (archive.org)

Data, Archive, Stack Exchange

28 points by hamdouni 376 days ago | 2 comments