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The HAL 9000 Contradiction Lab
What LLMs Say and Do When Candor and Secrecy Conflicts
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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listed Oct 14, 07:01 UTC
Traction (votes) over time
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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