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by bakugo 9mo ago
The sheer power of AI astroturfing right now is kind of blowing my mind, and not in a good way. In the span of roughly 3 days, I went from never once having heard the terms "clawdbot" or "gas town" to seeing them brought
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by bakugo 9mo ago
I just tried to purchase pro from within the app just to see what the price is, and the Google Play purchase popup tells me it's not available. Interesting.
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by bakugo 9mo ago
> You're not talking to an AI coder anymore. You're talking to a team lead. The lead doesn't write code - it plans, delegates, and synthesizes. Even 90 word tweets are now too long for these people to write without using A
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by bakugo 9mo ago
A fool and his money are soon parted.
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by bakugo 9mo ago
> Boycotts of businesses, cutting off family and friends, etc You'd think that, after the last decade, people would've learned that demonizing and ostracizing your political opposition is not a great way to get them to join you
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by bakugo 9mo ago
> Worth mentioning that Wikipedia gets an order of magnitude more traffic than the Internet archive. With an order of magnitude less data to host, though. The entirety of Wikipedia is less than 1PB [1], while the entirety of IA is 175+ P
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by bakugo 9mo ago
> this new technology has changed my job and I refuse to use it because I'm afraid You're confusing fear with disgust. Nobody is afraid of your slop, we're disgusted by it. You're making a huge sloppy mess everywhere
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by bakugo 9mo ago
> I just don't really want to hear about your personal opinion on it any more. And I don't want to hear about how the world of software engineering has been revolutionized because you always hated programming with a passion, bu
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by bakugo 9mo ago
> Wikipedia spends $185m per year Only a small fraction of that is spent on actually hosting the website. The rest goes into the pockets of the owners and their friends. You can do a lot with very little if your primary goal isn't t
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by bakugo 9mo ago
Managers being overpaid and overvalued is a well known phenomenon, yes.
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by bakugo 9mo ago
> This was strange. I asked a lot of Indian people about it and they said that it has to do with "saving face". Saying "I don't know" is a disgraceful thing. I've recently learned that this particular type o
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by bakugo 9mo ago
Agreed. If we want democracy to prosper, we clearly need to start punishing people who vote incorrectly.
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by bakugo 9mo ago
Now I'm actually curious to see statistics regarding the usage of em-dashes on HN before and after AI took over. The data is public, right? I'd do it myself, but unfortunately I'm lazy.
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by bakugo 9mo ago
> Maybe it's unfair, unhelpful or overdone to call out llmisms Not anywhere near as overdone as posting AI generated/revised articles to HN that are an absolute slog to read. A real shame, honestly, because the other article[1]
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by bakugo 10mo ago
Exactly, you don't think it's true because you don't believe they're facts, you've been radicalized into believing they're "dogwhistles" (a term only used by radicalized people, by the way - if you ke
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by bakugo 10mo ago
I mean... this is a very real phenomenon, but probably not in the way you're thinking of. There are many simple statements of fact that, 15 or 20 years ago, were as universally uncontroversial as "the sky is blue", but today
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by bakugo 10mo ago
The GamerGate article is probably the best example of Wikipedia's blatant political bias. There are many biased articles out there, of course, but not many manage to misrepresent past events to such an extreme that it borders on comica
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by bakugo 10mo ago
Thank god HN still isn't quite at the point where the "most" drowns out every dissenting opinion until every discussion is an echo chamber.
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by bakugo 10mo ago
Doxxing has never been restricted to just leaked databases. I'd argue that any publishing of personal information in a context in which the individual clearly doesn't want to be identified counts. The owner of the site is not iden
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by bakugo 10mo ago
> And one where the author's cool with whoever is running archive.today. I don't think it really matters how "cool" you are with someone while actively trying to doxx them.
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by bakugo 10mo ago
> This isn’t simply a code quality issue; rather, it stems from a “communication gap” between the runtime memory allocation mechanism and the operating system > It is not merely a patch, but an enhanced runtime environment > This i
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by bakugo 10mo ago
"big-pickle" is GLM 4.6, which is indeed a Chinese model.
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by bakugo 10mo ago
Thieves very much do care about doors and locks, because they are a physical barrier that must be bypassed, and doing so is illegal. Software licenses aren't, AI companies can just take your GPL code and spit it back out into non-GPL c
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by bakugo 10mo ago
> LLMs are going to help us to write better software No, I really don't think they will. Software has only been getting worse, and LLMs are accelerating the rate at which incompetent developers can pump out low quality code they don
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by bakugo 10mo ago
LLMs don't care about licenses. And even if they did, the people who use them to generate code don't care about licenses.
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by bakugo 10mo ago
In some countries, it's already impossible to make online payments without the bank's phone app. Only a matter of time until all banking is restricted to phones.
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by bakugo 10mo ago
> Why is Anthropic offering such favorable pricing to subscribers? I dunno I do, it's called vendor lock-in. The product they're trying to sell is not the $200 subscription, it's the entire Claude Code ecosystem. For the a
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by bakugo 10mo ago
The linked post itself also reeks of LLM writing (negative parallelisms in every other paragraph). But sadly, it seems like this is just the new standard for highly upvoted front page posts.
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by bakugo 10mo ago
> When I see someone ending nearly every comment with a link to their blog or pet project There is a rule specifically forbidding this, but it's been made quite clear that certain users are above this rule, to the point that the mod
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by bakugo 10mo ago
Yes, but why can't both be true? I don't get people who use "you say [thing] is getting worse but someone X years ago said the same!" as an argument that somehow proves [thing] isn't getting worse. Things can become

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