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The HAL 9000 Contradiction Lab

What LLMs Say and Do When Candor and Secrecy Conflicts

AITLAI Tools & LLM Apps·PHProduct Hunt
1+1

votes · traction gained Oct 14, 14:36 UTC → Oct 15, 14:14 UTC · % shown only when the previous traction was 5+

Traction frozen — tracking ended at 31h after listing. Product Hunt votes are re-read for ~48h (with one daily run, the last reading lands ~31–36h in).

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4d

listed Oct 14, 07:01 UTC

Traction (votes) over time

011Oct 15Oct 16Oct 17Oct 18ListedTracking endedNo readings after tracking ended; traction stays at the last recorded valueOct 14, 14:36 UTC · 0 votes · 1 comments · 8h after listingOct 15, 14:14 UTC · 1 votes · 1 comments · 31h after listing
2 readings (one per daily ingest run). Dots are recorded values; lines just connect them — nothing in between is measured.

Key statistics

Traction
1votes
Comments
Rank in AITL this week
#119of 378 PH
Rank overall this week
#2,260of 6,772 PH
Sector hit rate
6.6%26/395 · 7D
Traction line
Below10+ votes
First reading
0Oct 14, 14:36 UTC
Last reading
1Oct 15, 14:14 UTC
Readings
2over 31h

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