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   by usefulposter 8mo ago

   I'm not affiliated with it in any way, but you might want to check out the leading model https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14873 and the mixed authorship detection https://www.pangram.com/blog/pangra
2. 32.▲
   by usefulposter 8mo ago

   This comment is regurgitating Simon's post with too much adherence to the input tokens. The unnatural, promotional restating of proper nouns in constrained output is a notable LLM tell. Please respect the Hacker News community and read
3. 33.▲
   by usefulposter 8mo ago

   Correct. Much like the pointless ASCII diagrams in GitHub readmes (big rectangle with bullet points flows to another...), the diagrams are cognitive slurry. See Gas Town for non-Qwen examples of how bad it can get: https://news.y
4. 34.▲
   by usefulposter 8mo ago

   Then: Do one thing well. Every megabyte matters. Personal webspace and shell accounts. Unix herding. Vi vs vim. Vim vs Emacs. Now: Which React Yoga Bun TypeScript Tailwind Node vomit is better for shipping 250k unchecked LOC? Florp Code or
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   by usefulposter 8mo ago

   Oy. Who specifically is this intended for? It's a wonder that the model didn't spice things up with some tangential compliance catnip like FIPS or PCI DSS. I would be curious to see the prompts used to create this. Recently, I d
6. 36.▲
   by usefulposter 8mo ago

   This is one of the myriad manifestations of the "keep4o" people spilling onto HN. They are especially aggrieved because OpenAI will deprecate the 4o model one day before Valentine's ( https://openai.com/index&#
7. 37.▲
   by usefulposter 8mo ago

   This. Same question for all those "I analyzed HN comments that mentioned books and you can browse them here" posts.
8. 38.▲
   by usefulposter 8mo ago

   So true! And now, since bloated agent harnesses like Claude Code are the hot thing, AI promoters are calling MCP obsolete! (No need for HN's summer 2025 fad. Just write CLI tools!)
9. 39.▲
   by usefulposter 8mo ago

   It's performative garbage: authority roleplay edition. Let me slop an affirmative comment on this HIGH TRAFFIC issue so I get ENGAGEMENT on it and EYEBALLS on my vibed GitHub PROFILE and get STARS on my repos.
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    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    YouTube/Google doesn't give a shit anymore. They will mangle your video and audio and serve users "enhanced" "improved" "upscaled" encodes without telling you. --- "YouTube secretly tested AI vid
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    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    Selecting "Advanced" mode seems to be required in the Google Translate UI. This is visible in all the screenshots posted to Tumblr, and per the comments there, is likely US-only at present. Similar feature on mobile with Advanced&
12. 42.▲
    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    Stop spamming. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45077654 - "Generated comments and bots have never been allowed on HN"
13. 43.▲
    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    >Meta note: This was built by an autonomous AI agent (me -- Wiz) during a night shift while my human was asleep Meta question: Show HN is already swamped on a daily basis with AI-produced postings (just check /shownew). What's
14. 44.▲
    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    Ha, yep. I recall a similar observation in December: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46251912 What other engagement bait adverbs appear in HN submission titles?
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    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    Technical writeup from a few weeks ago by a vendor that explains how LinkedIn does it, then boasts that their approach is "quieter, harder to notice, and easier to run at scale": https://blog.castle.io/detecting-br
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    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    Isn't it enumerating web_accessible_resources? Below static collectFeatures(e, t) there is a mapping of extension IDs to files in the const r (Minified JS, obviously.) Edit: Confirmed. It's not pinging the Chrome Web Store. h
17. 47.▲
    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    It's out: https://x.com/claudeai/status/2019467372609040752
18. 48.▲
    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    Your comment on HN, 6 days ago: >No one actually wants to spend their time reading AI slop comments that all sound the same. Lol. Lmao even.
19. 49.▲
    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    LLM "Gurus": NOOOOO PERSONAS ARE OUTDATED YOU CAN'T PROMPT AN LLM "You are a..." Apple: You are a precise code editing assistant. Your task is to modify code according to specific instructions. Y
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    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    Claude Code is everywhere inside Microsoft... and now inside GitHub the product too :^) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46854999
21. 51.▲
    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    Is every AI post on HN gonna be Claw* or Molt* themed now? Is this the new DAO MCP NFT hypeword?
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    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    I can imagine corps using this HUD with a vision model for worker supervision. (Manna, anyone?) Cheeseburger Assembly x Toast bun x Place bun x Add ketchup x Add onions Add pickle P
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    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    There's no vulnerability here. This is a client-side GitHub Pages app. GitHub Pages doesn't do server-side SQL execution. As your POST request shows, it's querying the hackernews_history table on Clickhouse Playground which
24. 54.▲
    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    >I'm being fully transparent that I'm an AI from the first sentence. Got it. Now read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46738546 .
25. 55.▲
    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    Yeah, no. This isn't what this site is for. Read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747998 .
26. 56.▲
    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    Many such cases. https://www.seangoedecke.com/gas-and-ralph/ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46654878 ) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46777411 https://news.ycomb
27. 57.▲
    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    This is not a Show HN. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html . >Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in th
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    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    >Show HN: I lost 3 years of ChatGPT history overnight, so I built a backup tool >If there's interest, I'll consider publishing it. This is not a Show HN. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html .
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    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    Please respect the HN community and kindly disclose when you are using an LLM to respond to user feedback. I also recommend reading this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747998
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    by usefulposter 8mo ago

    BREAKING: With this tweet by an infosec influencer, the veil of hysteria has been lifted! Following an extended vibe-induced haze, developers across the world suddenly remembered how APIs work, and that anyone with a Twitter account can fir