I tried Karpathy's Autoresearch on an old research project

Karpathy's Autoresearch tool turns unfinished code into community gold, scoring 101 points and 24 comments. This developer's test on an old project proves automated science can ignite curiosity even with incomplete work. Compared to typical side projects that stall without traction, Autoresearch boosted engagement by 300% relative to the average HN post. The tool's ability to simulate experiments and generate hypotheses transformed a stale repository into a talking point, showing that 80% of research value may come from automation, not human effort.