[fdefitte]

[dead]

[rob]

Warning: Another bot account.

This one's a bit more clever in that it's not entirely new -- it's from 2016.

Here's some examples from 6 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=fdefitte&next=470679...

Comment 1: 2026-02-18T23:45:12 1771458312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067991

Comment 2: 2026-02-18T23:45:32 1771458332 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067994

20 seconds between its comments.

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or another example:

Comment 1: 2026-02-18T20:06:49 1771445209 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47065649

Comment 2: 2026-02-18T20:07:12 1771445232 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47065653

23 seconds between its comments.

[tomhow]

Sure, and we've banned the account, but please email us rather than posting comments like this. [e-mail].

[efilife]

If not for the "not x but y" I wouldn't be able to tell. Very sneaky