Using an LLM chat template in reverse to play the user
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Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 2points
- Comments
- 0
- Rank in AITL this week
- #12of 41 HN
- Rank overall this week
- #286of 938 HN
- Sector hit rate
- 8.9%5/56 · 7D
- Traction line
- Below10+ points
- First reading
- 2Oct 22, 15:07 UTC
- Last reading
- 2Oct 22, 15:07 UTC
- Readings
- 1over 1h
Launch-day race · #26 of 88 Show HN launches on 2026-10-22
- #24Find duplicates in 5 lines of Python (offline, lightweight, fast, Rust)2 points
- #25GitPushups, block your code if you don't do pushups during your workday2 points
- #26Using an LLM chat template in reverse to play the user2 points
- #27Unspin2 points
- #28Php2ShellCheck2 points
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