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648 points yoavfr | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 12:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.358s | source
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latexr ◴[05 Sep 25 13:14 UTC] No.45138173[source]▶
As I opened the website, the “16” changed to “17”. This looked interesting, as if the data were being updated live just as I loaded the page. Alas, a refresh (and quick check in the Developer Tools) reveals it’s fake and always does the transition. It’s a cool effect, but feels like a dirty trick.
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yoavfr ◴[05 Sep 25 13:17 UTC] No.45138206[source]▶
Sorry if that felt dirty - I thought about it as a signal that the data is live (it is!).
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1. handsclean ◴[06 Sep 25 18:47 UTC] No.45151853[source]▶
I think the problem is people’s priors. This isn’t the first time we’re seeing data fake-arrive like this, and virtually always it’s done either to fake liveness or to lie about rate of change. So, it comes to mean not “live”, but “fake”, even though nefarious motives don’t make much sense in this fun context.

It’s a shame, I think it’s a clever thought, and it doesn’t feel great when good intentions are met with an assumption of maliciousness.