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GreenWatermelon··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/810/
GreenWatermelon··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
Pure AI slope os often extremely obvious, while for good AI writing that's indistinguishable from thoughtful human writing I'd say "Mission fucking accomplished"[0]

[0] https://xkcd.com/810/

GreenWatermelon··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
Poe's law strikes.

Parent's last paragraph was definitely an ironic portray of LLM writing! Notice the double-dash emdash.

GreenWatermelon··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
As someone put ot before, humans use these little constructions maybe once or twice per article, not every single fucking paragraph.
GreenWatermelon··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
There is also significant meaning encoded in the parent's choice of words that implies more than what's written. "Formulate", "intend", and "receive" imply the parent comes from a technical or academic background, and this is how they express their thoughts. Parent has "intentions", not mere "wants". To the parent, the act of weaving together a comment for communication constitutes "Formulating thought", which is different from just "find wording"
GreenWatermelon··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
> my ears, "to help me find wording that conveys my thoughts the way I want them to be understood by the reader" conveys the same meaning as "to search for a way to formulate my thoughts like I intend them to be received by the reader"

I disagree with your disagreement and subjective take. The LLM changed the meaning in a significant but not very obvious way.

Compare "I use a hammer to drive nails" to "I use a hammer to help me drive nails"

In the former the writer implies tool use, in the latter the LLM turned that into some sort of assistant relationship. The former is normal, the latter is cringe (to my ears)

GreenWatermelon··on Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma
And I much prefer "unpolished due to resource constraints" to the outright malice that is windows.
GreenWatermelon··on Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma
For just notepad you have kwrite.
GreenWatermelon··on AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time
Why the sad smily? I'm pretty happy Chinese tech is stepping up to break the current memory cartel.
GreenWatermelon··on The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
Yeah, and for good reason. The invitation of the light bulb meant factory owners could force workers into 16 hours shifts. The main beneficiaries of new tech were always the capital owners. Workers had to literally fight and die for our 8-hour workdays and 5-days workweek.

This is still going on today: the massive gains from automation are being hoarded by the wealthy capital owners, while workers struggle to make ends meet.

GreenWatermelon··on New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
Hey, dont't insult me! I finally got my downvote privilege after 6 years and I'm NOT afraid of using it!
GreenWatermelon··on New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
I mean, it just wasn't actually that useful, honestly.
GreenWatermelon··on Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
Foreign state-actors love to sow discontent in enemy territories. It doesn't matter what they say to rile up the population and cause instability -- they'll just do it.
GreenWatermelon··on I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer
This garbage actually got over 900 upvotes. Crazy.

I already suspected it was AI written based in the super-cringe title, and a cursory look at the content confirmed my suspicion. Cookie-cutter basic ai writing as it gets.

GreenWatermelon··on 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
The blogpost is most certainly AI-written.
GreenWatermelon··on 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
The first post this guy has written in years and it's LLM/AI Written.

> The AI rip-off was not just ugly. It was careless, blatantly amateuristic, and lacking any ambition, to put it gently. Microsoft unworthy. The carefully crafted visual language and layout of the original, the branch colors, the lane design, the dot and bubble alignment that made the original so readable—all of it had been muddled into a laughable form. Proper AI slop.

Here we see "not just x" pattern combined with 3-items list. The closing short quip, and an emdash despite the author never having used them in any of his older posts, even the one from 2021. I don't know of he told an LLM to generate a post for the irony effect, or if he just couldn't be bothered to write.

In his (or his LMM's) own words:

> obviously AI-slop-y enough

Proper AI slop.

GreenWatermelon··on I’m joining OpenAI
Oh otsit's a Killer app alright. One that might kill you personally. And me. And everyone.
GreenWatermelon··on EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
Such obvious mockeries of law usually don't pass in court. The jusdge will easily see that the company intended to destroy the objects.
GreenWatermelon··on EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
This is still a good outcome. Less waste and trash being thrown out is good.
GreenWatermelon··on EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
Parent painted a very logical sequence of events that concluded in reduced prices. Can you provide similar reasoning for why you believe this law will increase costs?
GreenWatermelon··on EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
By investigating said recycling process? I mean, if a company can figure out that vendo X is a shadowy cloth-destruction syndicate, that state can as well, then that vendor can be banned from doing business in the EU or the companies dealing with them can be fined.
GreenWatermelon··on EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
It's not that the manufacturer can't sell their product, it's that they don't want to do so. They want to get rid of last season's perfectly good product to make room for next season's lineup.

They could sell old stock ay reduced prices and still make profits, but they want to maintain their vain exclusive image, so they inflate their prices by destroying stock.

GreenWatermelon··on The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
And section titles.

The X

The Y

The Z

The Problem

The Process

It drives me mad

And all the seemingly *random bolding* to emphasizea *random shit*

GreenWatermelon··on The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
Someone mentioned mass-psychosis a while ago. I feel the same.

What's isn't a singularly but a zombie apocalypse.

GreenWatermelon··on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
Many, many years ago, when ~persia came ashore~ dropbox was announced on HN [0] The top comment was quick to point out "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

GreenWatermelon··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Google workspace integrates with google meet. It's likely they don't want a competitor to google chat that uses meet infra.
GreenWatermelon··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
What was wrong with React Native that caused it to be slow? How did you figure out that flutter was the reason for improved performance, rather than simply rebuilding the app with lessons learned from the old app?

Put another way, given enough time, what was not possible to do with react Native and is now possible with flutter?

GreenWatermelon··on Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
Yes, very little extra steps, especially compared to what you need to actually simulate/implement a brain which require a while new computing paradigm, one that's not limited to digits and discrete states.
GreenWatermelon··on Deno Sandbox
I can't ignore that fact. The post was suffocating to read. LLMs have an obnoxious style.
GreenWatermelon··on In praise of –dry-run
Haha you're describing implementing an ORM! It's essentially that: a unified interface over multiple DB adapters.
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