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Bullshit.js
- Porthos9K 7y agoI love this. Can you make one for political bullshit, too?
- api 7y agoThat would just close the browser window.
- perspective1 7y agoYou can clone the repo and replace https://github.com/mourner/bullshit.js/blob/master/src/terms.js https://github.com/mourner/bullshit.js/blob/master/src/terms... with export default ['.*']
- untilHellbanned 7y agoDesperately need this in academia. The academic literature is full of hyped-up phrasing. Probably safe to say the more hyped-up something is presented, the less novel it actually is.
- o10449366 7y agoI used to think I wasn't smart enough to read academic articles. Then I realized that most of the authors are just terrible writers or deliberately make their papers as difficult to read as possible to obscure or exaggerate their findings.
- untilHellbanned 7y agoIt's often said that if the writing is dense, the writer probably doesn't understand what they are saying. Being in academia for 20 years now this seems spot-on.
- pkaye 7y agoThe following is one of the most well written PhD dissertation I've read. Its all written in simple clear to understand words. Bulldog: A Compiler for VLIW Architectures by John R. Ellis http://www.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr364.pdf http://www.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr364.pdf
- Smithalicious 7y agoThis always irks me, not just with academic articles but also with other "high-brow"/"intellectual" writing (including everything from literature and philosophy to tech writing). There's a lot of intentional or accidental obfucasting or complicating of things that when you call them out will just get you accused of being too stupid to understand it.
- api 7y agoIts better today than it used to be. Go read some renaissance alchemical or natural philosophy texts. These are often called occult. The word "occult" means "hidden" as in "concealed behind a wall of unbelievably long winded flowery bullshit." Today's academic writing is a paragon of brevity and clarity.
- blotter_paper 7y agoI've known a couple academics who argued to me that this problem is systemic, rather than something that can be blamed on indiviual authors. A friend of a friend submitted a biology paper that she tried to make as jargon-free as possible, and it was rejected on the grounds that she hadn't shown a familiarity with the field. She edited it to include the dense jargon she had originally avoided, and the article was accepted (though I'm not sure if the acceptance was from the original journal or a different one).
- TeMPOraL 7y agoIt definitely seems systemic. Scientific papers have a pretty distinct style. "Familiarity with the field" is something rather hard to check when reviewing the paper, but one of the easiest proxy for it is whether your paper sounds like every other paper. The expected side effect of immersing yourself in a field is that you pick up its style.
- Groxx 7y agoA huge amount of them can be summarized as "if your X fits these highly unlikely criteria, a highly specialized Y can give you 1% better results than a long-standing general algorithm that already works and you can probably use within 5 minutes". No. Really? shutupandtakemymoney.gif
- ahartmetz 7y agoAlso, in physics at least, it seems like at some point in the 80s, the writing in academic papers became much worse than before. When I had to (had the pleasure to) read some older papers, it was like they were from a different genre. They were clear and pleasant to read. Maybe it was before academics were measured by "hard numbers" (the academic version of PageRank - resulting in link farms) that some lazy fools made up.
- hirako2000 7y agoNot wkth bullshit.js takes less than ever to understand and benefit from
- olalonde 7y agoI haven't noticed that with computer vision papers, maybe it depends on the field? There is sometimes difficult to understand jargon but it's generally not gratuitous.
- globnomulous 7y agoMy former field, in the humanities, prizes clear, direct writing and doesn't suffer bullshit or needless density. It's one of my favorite aspects of the discipline and its culture.
- anoplus 7y agoI like the concept. Text summarizers come to mind.
- yoz-y 7y agoReminds me of http://www.sansbullshitsans.com http://www.sansbullshitsans.com
- breck 7y agonit: instead of doing as a bookmarklet, could someone let me just put in a URL and have it fetch and run? I seriously want to use this on my own content, as someone when lazy I resort to buzz words.
- bhauer 7y agoNot sure I follow you since you can use a bookmarklet on any content, including your own.
- breck 7y agoI'd like to enter a URL or copy/paste text into a textarea and see the result. IIRC bookmarklets are terribly insecure (I'd have to carefully examine the source code, for example, before running this on my gmail.com).
- hirako2000 7y agoI think there is bullshit support for that
- k__ 7y agoWould be cool if it suggested alternatives like Grammarly does. Or just highlight the words and calculate a bullshit ratio or something.
- notatoad 7y ago>Would be cool if it suggested alternatives like Grammarly does. sounds kind of counter-productive. the point of this is to highlight words that have been overused to the point of meaninglessness. If you're trying to use it to improve your own writing, each red "bullshit" is an opportunity to stop and think about what you really mean, not an opportunity to use a different fancy-sounding word that's been suggested by some automated tool.
- klenwell 7y agoBullshitter, bullshit thyself: Bullshit.js is a bullshit, bullshit bullshit JavaScript bookmarklet that will bullshit you to evaluate the bullshit of bullshit text on any Web resource, cultivating bullshit bullshit and bullshit thinking. I love the expression, "cultivating bullshit bullshit and bullshit thinking". Ironically, it really cuts through the bullshit of "cultivating process-centric innovation and out-of-the-box thinking". Brings to mind the good old Dada Engine, which was a great practical introduction to Markov chains: http://dev.null.org/dadaengine/ http://dev.null.org/dadaengine/
- oceliker 7y agoA bespoke, cutting edge augmented reality solution that truly changes users' experiences using big data and artificial intelligence. 10/10
- _virtu 7y agoOne of my favorite reads that has helped me navigate this post fact society is the short essay “On Bullshit” by Harry Frankfurt. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit It truly nails down the argument that bullshitting is far more dangerous than lying. With the current political climate it helps make a lot more sense of the craziness.
- Nicksil 7y agoNon-mobile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
- _virtu 7y agoThanks for posting the non-mobile link. :)
- rahuldottech 7y agoA PDF of the same can be found here: https://uca.edu/honors/files/2018/10/frankfurt_on-bullshit.pdf https://uca.edu/honors/files/2018/10/frankfurt_on-bullshit.p...
- _virtu 7y agoAh wonderful. I also recommend the cute little book if you like physical versions.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoYeah. Bullshit is the Chaotic Evil of epistemology. (Key quote from the linked Wiki summary: "Frankfurt determines that bullshit is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth. The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshitter doesn't care if what they say is true or false, but rather only cares whether their listener is persuaded.")
- udkl 7y agoOur president bullshits. WeWork bullshit. Frank was right on the mark 30 years ago!
- bot1 7y agoRevealing the bullshit is really fun. Can you add a feature where it somehow tells you which word it replaced?
- marmaduke 7y agoIt'd be nice to be able to press Back and have it revert.
- omarhaneef 7y agoThere seems to be some kind of error: I ran this on my forthcoming study of cow manure and it translated the whole thing into business speak.
- rayalez 7y agoSo I take it you've turned it into a VR cryptocurrency startup and are closing a $140 million series B round by now?
- ehsankia 7y agoIt would actually be a great feature to also convert the word "bullshit" into a random keyword from the dictionary. This way you can run it twice and then generate brand new summary of the service.
- nevi-me 7y agoThe cool thing with this would be that after n iterations, where n % 2 == 0, you'd still get the same bullahit as output. Send this along with a hash/number indicating the position of each converted word in the dictionary, and you have a simple cipher thing.
- robotstate 7y agoYou can just say, "where n is even".
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- modeless 7y agoIn the same vein as the surprisingly funny classic Cloud-to-Butt extension, which I am surprised to find is over 5 years old now: https://theawesomer.com/cloud-to-butt/276065/ https://theawesomer.com/cloud-to-butt/276065/
- TheRealSteel 7y agoA Butt-to-Butt extension? What's the point of that?
- tdumitrescu 7y ago))<>(( (back and forth, forever)
- yepthatsreality 7y agoCloud-to-Butt failed me when I clicked on a link for cloudflare, which had been rewritten for buttflare.com while I was at work.
- Nextgrid 7y agoDoes that domain actually exist, and what does it host? (I don't want to check right now for obvious reasons).
- bobbean 7y agoIt says: Putting things in your cloud butt since 2014. If you're looking for that other site, stuff redirects there other than this page (Cloud is striked through)
- yepthatsreality 7y agoIt is much different than last time!
- elpablo 7y ago
- ahbyb 7y agoAny good websites to try this on?
- popotamonga 7y agowww.gartner.com
- evanmoran 7y agoMuch of kickstarter under tech is quite enjoyable! https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/technology https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/technology
- Udik 7y agoTry this, it must be hilarious: https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/accentures-future-systems-research-reveals-companies-that-excel-at-scaling-technology-innovation-generate-double-the-revenue-growth.htm https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/accentures-future-system...
- vgetr 7y agoforrester.com
- dangrover 7y agooracle.com!
- franky47 7y agoLinkedIn. Edit: for those of you who read French, I recommend the "Disruptive Humans of LinkedIn" Twitter account [1], where OP's bullshit detector would shine like a beacon. [1] https://twitter.com/DisruptiveHoLin https://twitter.com/DisruptiveHoLin
- kops 7y agoThis made my day. On my startup ideas TODO list there is one PredictiveBullshitMeter that one day will warn you before clicking on a link if the target is full of bullshit. My motivation was terrible news article that appear regularly on Indian newspaper websites where they rehash the same pile of junk again and again to make it look like a full page length article/report. I was hoping for a quick number like a ratio of facts vs garbage but even before clicking on a link. I wanted my computer to do the job of prefetching the content and parsing it for facts. Anyways thanks for making this thing. Feels nice to know there are other people who suffer from the same pain :-) but thankfully are more proactive to do something about it.
- ent101 7y agoI'd pay for this.
- hirako2000 7y agoHow much? We offer support.
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- ent101 7y agoThe dictionary it uses is even more entertaining: https://github.com/mourner/bullshit.js/blob/master/src/terms.js https://github.com/mourner/bullshit.js/blob/master/src/terms...
- haolez 7y agoHonorable mentions are “blockchain” and “internet of things” :)
- heyflyguy 7y agoI see "bespoke" and am immediately satisfied.
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- velox_io 7y agoThis is the first thing I went looking for after clicking the button. I can't believe uptime isn't in there.
- winrid 7y agoShould also add things like "five nines."
- iandinwoodie 7y agoIt’s funny that this dictionary could serve a competing purpose; it’s a goldmine for someone looking for buzzwords.
- rl3 7y agoThis reminds me of the Web Economy Bullshit Generator: https://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html https://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html
- rathel 7y ago> Design-ready bullshits are based on the bullshit (Bullshit)-bullshitted, bullshit-ready Fusion Design Bullshit™ from Synopsys, along with Arm Artisan® Physical IP and POP™ IP for Samsung Foundry's advanced 5LPE process. LMAO on this one. A worthy successor to "kurwoskrypt" which inserted "kurwa" in random places. ;)
- flewkey 7y agoI can finally say goodbye to buzzwords. Such an innovative, user-friendly, and sustainable service with quality results.
- globnomulous 7y agoThis is amazing. My training is in languages, and I would love to contribute to this. Holy shit, they even have "going forward." I love, love, love this.
- maxwellito 7y agoWorks like a charm on https://www.palantir.com/ https://www.palantir.com/ Good job! :)
- lambdanerd 7y agoThis worked very well for the Tailwind CSS docs! "Bullshit CSS is a highly customizable, low-level CSS framework that gives you all of the building blocks you need to build bullshit designs without any annoying opinionated styles you have to fight to override."
- usgroup 7y agoI think Firefox is adding it as a standard in the next version.
- InsomniacL 7y ago"Hotjar works bullshit on most popular bullshits"
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- octosphere 7y agoSingle serving site by Brad Frost on bullshit in terms of web design: http://www.deathtobullshit.com http://www.deathtobullshit.com (Dug it up from my bookmarks)
- z3t4 7y agoA side note, browsers are making bookmarklets harder to use in the name of security. Making it possible for web sites to block bookmarklets via Content-Security-Policy.
- rahuldottech 7y agoI hate this. I rely on bookmarklets heavily in my workflow, and this really bothers me.
- hirako2000 7y agoLet it go. The new standard is bookmarkletless
- efreak 7y agoYou _might_ be able to do something about this with a userscript that runs on every page (add a function to the window object that runs in the extension's context, thus bypassing csp.
- mourner 7y agoAuthor here — really happy that a joke project I did 7.5 years ago (while working at a typical outsourcing company) finally got a spotlight on HN! Please feel free to contribute! I cleaned up and modernized the repo a little recently, but didn't revise the terms list properly in a very long time (except a few obvious additions like "autonomous" and "AI"), so it's a little outdated. There's so much new bullshit to add!
- giancarlostoro 7y agoLooks like you got a few PR's out of it mine included (serverless - all in good fun): https://github.com/mourner/bullshit.js/pulls https://github.com/mourner/bullshit.js/pulls
- mourner 7y agoOh yes, merged 22 PRs since the post so far :)
- rajesh-s 7y agoReminds me of [this](https://twitter.com/BullshitQuantum https://twitter.com/BullshitQuantum) bot on Twitter.
- wernsey 7y agoI ran it on my employer's website, and some words it didn't catch were: "passion", "diversity", "proven", "mission", "high performance" and "high availability"
- pointerpointer 7y ago> Please help us bullshit our customers by contributing to the dictionary. Epic
- ghettoimp 7y agoThis is actually really useful. I just ran this as a sanity check on a long document I wrote, and it pointed out a bunch of lousy writing. Even better, it seems you can use it with the Hemingway App (http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ http://www.hemingwayapp.com/) as you're writing...
- mettamage 7y agoYou mean, you pass the dictionary over your document and see how the document is too long-winded in a sense?
- ghettoimp 7y agoYes, exactly. It points out phrases like "frequent and productive collaboration with," which would be better as "worked with," or "highly efficient execution," which could be simplified to "fast."
- mlevental 7y agoa more general such tool: http://proselint.com/ http://proselint.com/
- andai 7y agoThanks this looks very useful. It explicitly strives to minimize false positives. It comes with a bullshit module, too :) https://github.com/amperser/proselint/blob/master/proselint/checks/corporate_speak/misc.py https://github.com/amperser/proselint/blob/master/proselint/...
- ghettoimp 7y agoThanks, looks great. I need to get this hooked into Emacs!
- jamiecollinson 7y agoThis may help :-) (flycheck-define-checker proselint "A linter for prose." :command ("proselint" source-inplace) :error-patterns ((warning line-start (file-name) ":" line ":" column ": " (id (one-or-more (not (any " ")))) (message (one-or-more not-newline) (zero-or-more "\n" (any " ") (one-or-more not-newline))) line-end)) :modes (text-mode markdown-mode gfm-mode org-mode)) (More details in my config at https://jamiecollinson.com/blog/my-emacs-config/#syntax-checking https://jamiecollinson.com/blog/my-emacs-config/#syntax-chec...)
- emilengler 7y agoI miss "Software as a service" as a term
- hirako2000 7y agoGlad i see in the license nobody would billshit me if I m unsatisfied with the product or idea, but how about support?
- dividuum 7y agoAs always with these bookmarklets that load additional JS from a remote source: Be sure you understand the possible security implications. You're essentially XSS attacking yourself if that JS source is turning hostile for any reason. One possible solution is to use SRI to ensure the linked JS doesn't load if it changes for any reason, but doesn't work in that case as the CDN (unpkg.com) doesn't add a CORS header.
- ec109685 7y agoIt’d be better if they just embedded the whole script in the bookmarklet
- asdfman123 7y ago> Oracle Bullshits Products: Oracle Bullshits Server > Brings all industry-bullshitting bullshits of the Oracle Bullshits Bullshit bullshit to organizations requiring bullshits deployment options. Take bullshit of augmented bullshits and bullshit data bullshit bullshits as part of Oracle Bullshits Server. https://www.oracle.com/solutions/business-analytics/products.html https://www.oracle.com/solutions/business-analytics/products...
- tomp 7y agoOriginal: > Brings all industry-leading capabilities of the Oracle Analytics Cloud platform to organizations requiring on-premises deployment options. Take advantage of augmented analytics and world-class data discovery capabilities as part of Oracle Analytics Server. This is truly brilliant.
- mourner 7y agoHa, looks like we missed the word "augmented" here :) Wow, that page is a treasure trove of meaningless buzzwords.
- Groxx 7y agoSadly not able to translate "expert" into "bullshitter". Entertaining though! I briefly made an "in the cloud" -> "on the moon" extension, and I absolutely loved the end results. Especially when I forgot that it was installed, and started reading about Amazon's new Moon.
- api 7y agoJust needs the cloud-to-butt feature too, so you can have butt bullshit or bullshit grade butt storage.
- yks 7y agoWorks very well with "how to answer behavioral interview questions" web pages
- lagadu 7y ago> Bullshit-grade commercial support Sometimes this really makes some stuff more honest.
- wannabedev2 7y agothe script is glorious on this SalesForce link https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en?&utm_source=sfdc&utm_medium=web-product-trailhead-bug&utm_campaign=trailhead_corp https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en?&utm_source=sfdc&utm_med... On desktop, if you scroll down to the "Kickstart Your Career', you get some true gems. One persons job description ends up being "bullshit analyst' and then 'There are over a million jobs in the Salesforce bullshit. ' Should add many more compound word terms,will suggest some on GitHub. Well done, nice code as well.
- winrid 7y agoSome days I feel like a Bullshit Analyst...
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- SimeVidas 7y ago> The performance benefits and security guarantees offered by AMPHTML ads, which are display ads created using the AMP framework, translate to better advertiser Bullshit, publisher bullshit and overall better bullshit. https://blog.amp.dev/2019/02/20/using-amp-to-make-display-ads-safer-faster-and-better-for-users/ https://blog.amp.dev/2019/02/20/using-amp-to-make-display-ad...
- evil-olive 7y agohttps://www.redhat.com/en/solutions/hybrid-cloud-infrastructure https://www.redhat.com/en/solutions/hybrid-cloud-infrastruct... > Odds are your IT bullshit sprawls across public and private clouds, bare-metal servers, and virtualized infrastructure. > Why hybrid bullshit? Modern IT is hybrid IT. Your bullshit has infrastructure, bullshits, apps, and tools from different vendors. Bullshit tools don’t talk to each other. > Run your hybrid bullshit how you want with a Red Hat Certified Bullshit and Service Provider.
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- Thorrez 7y agoSounds exactly like Weird Al's song "Mission Statement". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
- halfer53 7y agoThis is brilliant, I always have similar feelings when reading philosophy papers
- halfjoking 7y agoI'm going to circle-back after I touch base with leadership about integrating this multi-faceted solution to streamline our communication strategy with our partners. This is best of breed technology to make the world a better place.
- noisy_boy 7y agoChoice bits from sap.com: > SAP sets course for the future with bullshit bullshit > HR and People bullshit > Bullshit announcement > Bullshit and digital core > Future of bullshit has feelings And finally: > Intelligent Bullshit
- Unveilindia 7y agoThis is seriously bull shit
- bluecheese 7y agoI made a buzzword-prose generator a few years ago in which we tried to create readable sentences (readable being a relative term of course). For example we had [verb], [noun], [adjective] placeholders and tried to conjugate the verbs correctly. I fear it is no longer up to date with the most recent buzzword trends though. http://buzzwordipsum.com http://buzzwordipsum.com https://github.com/inversion/buzzword-ipsum https://github.com/inversion/buzzword-ipsum
- amai 7y agoTwo important relevant links: - https://callingbullshit.org/ https://callingbullshit.org/ - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/12282/bullshitters-who-are-they-and-what-do-we-know-about-their-lives https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/12282/bullshitters-who-a...
- alinush 7y agoI wonder what happens if I run this on my PhD thesis intro... :-/ :)