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Hittonon Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs

I wonder why did Google derank it. Did it correctly identify it as LLM written and sink it because of that?

Hittonon Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows why

I think the answer is obvious - after spending years watching pixelated pornography, their fantasy fueled expectations reach extreme heights and are subsequently disappointed by the real deal.

Hittonon '500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds

Agreed. Quite sad that some people are not able to put away their personal feelings about creator when judging the creation. For instance an author wouldn't play a role when choosing whether to use ReiserFS either.

Hittonon Felix Rieseberg Homepage

The snake game in the terminal has an off-by-one error with top line.

But overall very cool and impressive.

Hittonon A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad

Despite your implication how is Oreboro Party far-right, wikipedia actually states they are:

characterized as left-wing, right-wing, populist, nationalist, and conservative

and:

Ideology: Populism, Swedish nationalism, Left-conservatism, Anti-corruption, Anti-establishment, Anti-immigration

Political position: Syncretic

So basically everyone can (dis)like it for some reason...

Hittonon We are going to kill "unalive"

I disagree. I think it were the content creators and influencers who started it to avoid demonetizing and soft-censorship (the content not being promoted instead of being banned) and then regular people displayed sheep behaviour and started monkeying it. Tiktok influencers are perfectly capable of originating something when their bottom line is concerned.

Hittonon We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

Nice. I noticed that the games they play are mostly for 4-8 players, so this is quite a overkill. Not too surprising - despite our wishes LAN parties nowadays will be just a shadow of those we had in our teens.

Hittonon Don't be a meat proxy

Obviously the solution is to have a SKILL.md which will make an agent translate it to a humanese!

Hittonon So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

Old reddit still works for me even without login though. I'm too lazy to figure out which from the multiple of userscripts and addons I use allows it, but apparently the block is done half-assedly and easy to circumvent.

Hittonon I graded 36 popular MCP servers on agent usability. A third got a D or F

This is stupid analysis. Complaining without nuance about "D004 - parameter has no description" suggests the article was written by an AI agent, because some parameters simply don't need any description. Prime example is "url" parameter explicitly mentioned in the article - unless there are multiple possible url parameters, adding the description just bloats context.

Hittonon Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them

I wouldn't be surprised if consoles got replaced by video game streaming. Not the next generation and probably not even the generation after that, but that will be most likely it.

Hittonon I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

Too bad Apple wouldn't allow the registration requiring the tapping - it would have been cool if whole social network was a tree with a single root - the founder.

Ofc it's probably for the better if it's to have a chance to spread at least a little.

Hittonon Claude Code On-the-Go

I see. It didn't make sense to me but I just found that Vultr has snapshots, which is probably what you are using.

Hittonon Claude Code On-the-Go

Can you explain more about the vm-start/vm-stop? I don't understand why you start/halt the VM and wait for Tailscale, you could just keep it running.

Hittonon Interactive map of Paul's first century travels in Roman world

Viewing this in Firefox on Linux I see the outline of the travels before the map loads, then the map loads over it and I can't see it anymore.

Hittonon Show HN: Aura – Like robots.txt, but for AI actions

Hm, I don't see much reason to use it unless the website in question is paid. Web today is run on ad revenue and not only won't the site extract any revenue from the agent, it even won't look as a person for ad purposes.

Hittonon Copying is the way design works (2020)

Meanwhile Steve Jobs: "We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."

Hittonon More Americans are searching online about moving to Canada. But will they?

Canada is bigger than USA.

Hittonon Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free

It would be ludicrous to say that justice won, but I'm glad he is finally free.

Hittonon Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now

Just not being available in app stores would effectively stop its usage.

Hittonon Edmond Albius's method of pollination is now used by all vanilla growers

Thanks, it beggars belief that they could publish the article without such substantial piece of information.

Hittonon Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each download (2022)

>paid peer review

What? Elsevier doesn't pay reviewers either.

Hittonon Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope for patients

Liver donation in particular is easy, because they can take just half of it and it will grow back.

Hittonon "Anna's Archive" blocked following publishers' complaint

an order to disable https://annas-archive.org through a DNS block was issued to Italian ISPs

Rather toothless. No experienced user is using their ISP's DNS anyway.

Hittonon Two pharmacists figured out that oral phenylephrine doesn't work

>The most cited study found that an oral dose of phenylephrine had an absorption rate of 38 percent of an oral dose of phenylephrine, ...

That's not very much.

Hittonon Show HN: My related-posts finder script (with LLM and GPT4 enhancement)

Cool, but the ultimate result - the related articles in that post - is not great. Suggested articles have barely anything to do with the topic. I think there should be minimal threshold (probably found empirically) for similarity and if no article reaches it, just don't show any.

Hittonon Toxic comments are associated with reduced volunteer activity on Wikipedia

>For instance, the level of conflict on discussion pages, as assessed by raters, has been shown to negatively correlate with the quality of the corresponding Wikipedia articles.

An alternative explanation is that "toxic comments" protect wikipedia from low quality content, acting as defense mechanism against bad editors. So without better study which tries to analyze if the critique (regardless of toxicity) is justified, it's absolutely useless to make any conclusions from the article.

Hittonon Stripe live dashboard

I'm not sure how believable are those numbers. Businesses having their best day ever on stripe being exactly 9001 (It's over 9000!) for quite some time now seems rather suspicious.

Hittonon LLMs cannot find reasoning errors, but can correct them

They would fix a "mistake" even if they were given location where there is none.

Hittonon WeWork Goes Bankrupt

Interesting. That might be the best explanation of SoftBank being previously bullish on WeWork investment.