BBC has a nice article about Katie Bouman and Hacker News is.... going through the git repos seeing if she actually did the work https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632086 …https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47891902 …
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What's your hit rate? I estimate ~1/year on my end :x
One issue (IMO) is there are people who are legitimate experts on some topics who seem compelled to write up reasonable sounding but completely bogus comments on other topics. Unless you're a subject-matter expert, I think it would be hard to determine which comments are bogus.
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The obviously completely wrong comments don't bother me (everyone can tell those are wrong), but a pet peeve of mine are the people who are credible who feel like they have to comment on everything. There are three or four people like this. Why!? It's a waste of everyone's time.
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When they comment on topics I know about, the comments are very wrong (but not obviously so to a lay person). I'm guessing they're no different on topics I don't know about outside of their expertise. This is one of the two main reasons I don't read a lot of HN comments anymore.
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Indeed, this only definitely works in areas where you are an SMA yourself, but that's how I used it there they can be very helpful. I'd *like* to think it could work in other areas but you are right that it can be hard to detect well-written bullshit.
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For sure I've read something about how airplanes work, and totally believed it... only to see it followed up by a well written refutation. They can't both be right. Sometimes you can selectively fact check things outside of your domain though, a bit like NP-hard problems.
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