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The tone of this is something else
by hstaab 4mo ago
The tone of this is something else
- andai 4mo agoSeveral times, I wondered if Claude wrote it.
- Stitch4223 4mo agoOne confusing part is that the blue screen is not a reference to BSOD but to the IIS default page with the blue squares. That’s probably jargon. The article lists all the tricks I’ve collected over the years doing pentesting and then some, with great tool references. The signal to noise ratio is very high and there’s little “here’s why” filler which instead might just be someone’s way of storytelling. The article drones on, but with actual content as there is a lot to tell. It’s even light on features like trace.axd, but does mention them and their purposes. I found it an entertaining overview of taking apart unassuming IIS servers and the point of “Recon harder. ” is made very well :) Edit: s/boring/unassuming + added point was made very well
- 0x1d7 4mo agoYes, it's jargon. Blue screen is that default page. Yellow screen of death is another one, referring to when ASP.NET throws an exception and you have detailed exceptions turned on (which for public sites, you shouldn't).
- Tiberium 4mo agoIt did, this article is clearly LLM-written/edited
- merpkz 4mo ago"This is the brute-force fallback when the smart approaches fail, and honestly, it works more often than you’d expect." Found the LLM generated part.
- suslik 4mo agoHonestly, given how much claude-based prose I was recently reading, I am worried I will soon begin to write in this style naturally.
- xeyownt 4mo ago[flagged]
- Kwpolska 4mo agoCan we stop this stupid trend to generate prose using LLMs?
- shantnutiwari 4mo ago"... can we stop this stupid trend to flag everything as LLM generated?" I have trying to fight this war and lose-- this default lazy behaviour "I dont like this post so it must be llm" followed by some idiotic example Its become a fad here. Half the people dont read any post, just skim it and post "this is llm" and move on
- Tiberium 4mo agoWhy is it stupid to flag genuinely LLM-written content? It might've been thought out by a human, but the final version is clearly LLM-written or extremely heavily LLM-edited.
- gpvos 4mo agoIt's mostly boring. About 50% of comments of HN are about this at the moment, drowning out actual discussion. If someone writes an interesting article using LLM, I don't mind.
- 0x1d7 4mo agoHN guidelines ask you to not do this. > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. While few read them, it might be helpful if @dang threw in the ", or LLM generated content".
- helloplanets 4mo agoWould be a feat on its own to get Claude to write on a topic like this.
- andai 4mo agoI do think there was a lot of human effort involved. The llm-isms (whether human or machine generated!) cheapen the whole thing, which is a shame. I rather read bad awkward human writing than LLM generated paragraph number 9 billion.
- kitd 4mo agoGet Claude to fix IIS, or is that not allowed any more?
- MagicMoonlight 4mo ago[dead]