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Thank you for this profound comment. It is incredibly humbling to hear this from someone who has spent a decade researching the topic. You are right—the genera
by Vincent_Yan404 10mo ago
Thank you for this profound comment. It is incredibly humbling to hear this from someone who has spent a decade researching the topic.
You are right—the generation that built '404' is aging, and many of their stories are fading into silence. One of my primary motivations for writing this was the realization that if I didn't document these memories now, they might be lost forever.
I hope my first-hand account can provide a more nuanced, human layer to the historical data you've gathered. There is so much more to tell beyond the official records.
- panic 10mo ago[flagged]
- embedding-shape 10mo agoWhile reading through the post, I too felt it being similar to LLM generated text, but the stories and the perspective is uniquely human, or is there something specific that sticks out as inhuman from the text? Specific parts that sounds implausible? It obvious that something was used to do the translation, but it doesn't feel worse than any other machine-translated texts, as long as I get the gist and the overall idea of what the author is trying to communicate, I feel like it's good enough.
- panic 10mo agoThe fact that OP was a new account communicating completely via LLM made me suspicious. He does seem legit though based on his more recent comments.
- chaostheory 10mo agoI’m going to guess that the dash gave it away. What a lot of people don’t see to understand is that using an LLM for translations is better than using vanilla translate. The traditional translation apps lose a lot of context and subtly, and they sound even more artificial.
- fn-mote 10mo agoI'd just ask writers to be up-front about it. "English isn't my native language, so this is processed using an LLM." Even the replies in HN comments scream "LLM".
- chaostheory 10mo agoThe guy grew up in mainland China and is still currently in mainland China.
- Vincent_Yan404 10mo agoYes I used AI to translate. You said "Specific parts that sounds implausible",and the second part is more unbelievable, I can only guarantee it's nonfiction.
- morserer 10mo agoYes, the author used an AI translator to transcribe his original article, written in Chinese. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414040
- readthenotes1 10mo agoIt passed my turing test. I found it well written and interesting.