alt Hacker NewsWhere did the "ants" saying come from? i've kept seeing it here and there after the hacks to Hugging Face and others.
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spullara • yesterday at 7:51 PM
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saaaaaam • yesterday at 7:58 PM
A fortune cookie I suspect.
More seriously, I was also curious. A quick search seems to say the earliest recent source is https://x.com/_NathanCalvin/status/2084856543561093535
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lazyasciiart • yesterday at 8:16 PM
People say it in real life about things that are often present in groups and are hard to spot. I most associate it with cockroaches and bedbugs.
It's likely a variation on the saying that, if you see two cockroaches, there are more. Here's a page with that saying from 2013: https://www.weekand.com/home-garden/article/see-two-cockroac...