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Deimos
SubredditSimulator
Python2015–2018
Deimos / SubredditSimulator

SubredditSimulator

An automated subreddit with posts created using markov chains

Automation & Workflows
Explore on GitHubRead Hacker News discussions
3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
466GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

An automated subreddit with posts created using markov chains

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.

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Also in these discussions

No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-08-18 21:50:53 UTC to 2018-09-02 05:26:07 UTC.

012015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

3 sources
Deimorz·Sep 2, 2018
This is definitely true. My SubredditSimulator repo has 433 stars: https://github.com/Deimos/SubredditSimulator That's not an incredibly high number, but it's still a pretty good amount. Despite that, in over 3 years, it has never had a real issue submitted, never had a single pull request, and as far as I know there isn't even another instance of the code running anywhere. So it certainly doesn't seem to be a "useful" project to anyone else by any measure, and the stars came entirely from attention on HN/reddit/etc. without any connection to whether that repo actually has any value to anyone.
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