Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Oct 20, 2026. Since then it appeared in 39 hourly checks across 2 days, peaking at #7 on Oct 20, 19:32 UTC. It was last on the list on Oct 21, 00:32 UTC.
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