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Trying to silence someone (“You should have..not commented”) is pretty rude.

Seems like the same old story. Rude people defending other rude people so that they can collectively continue to justify their own rudeness. Usually with arguments that don’t stand up to scrutiny. And usually using a fresh account.

Totally agree. I found it insulting.

Thank you for this! I had no idea these roundtables existed. I wish that interviewer would stop interrupting though :s Apart from that this is gold!

I fondly remember getting so stuck in Day of the Tentacle or Grim Fandango not just for days but even giving up for weeks before coming back with fresh motivation! This is the sort of challenge that’s actually rewarding when you manage to solve it (unlike being held by the hand the entire game).

If you don’t care about hand-writing a readme, fine nobody is forcing you, but to lie about it is just sad.

Warning for those that care: LLM readme.

My question was rhetorical ;)

For a moment I thought you were saying ipinfo runs example.com.

Instead it just seems to be an advert for ipinfo on a post about example.com?

Personally (apparently like you) I didn’t have any desire to re-play the game, but boy was that first play-through enjoyable! They really did well in making you feel the intended vibe with the visuals, sound effects, bits of dialogue etc

Yeah but it seems to be a losing battle, sadly.

Low effort LLM-written content gets upvoted here anyway, despite the writer having little respect for peoples’ time.

Absolutely.

> My mistake was trying to combine .tar.gz files using cat. gzip plays ball, but tar throws a strop.

> gzip happily combines the compressed members into a single stream, but when tar tries to read the decompressed stream, it finds the first archive’s EOF marker and stops reading.

> gzip would be happy to carry on, but tar has given up.

There was no reason to say this three times consecutively. But when an AI wrote the blog post for you then this is the level of quality HN readers have to put up with.

> Your expectations are unrealistic.

No they are not.

Claude isn’t the only option for such a person, as translation tools exist, and English-speaking colleagues exist to proof-read.

In any case, the article author writes perfectly well in English pre LLM era: https://www.kochan.io/nodejs/it-is-ok-to-keep-random-things-...

In this case, the emdashes are just tip of the iceberg. The writing is so Claude that it’s painful to read (and in fact I stopped reading to save my mental health).

I also found it cool/fun and seems many others did too! But this thread isn’t about that.

LLM-driven PoC is common and normal these days (and I do it too). But praising the copy here is like praising stock photos.

> Less is more.

Yes, we should all just throw LLM-generated copy out there with minimal effort. Then receive your praise for the effort and care put in XD

The fact you’re still trying to defend an indefensible position suggests you must be trolling. Or at least, I _hope_ you’re trolling ;)

> If you think (or care)

I don’t think anybody really cares, the reaction is because you praised some copy that was obviously written by an LLM and either not edited or barely edited.

Yeah, no. Not enough to make the page not look and sound like straight from an LLM.

> Your site copy is great to the last drop.

It is? It’s just the usual LLM.

Best we can do is flag such articles, but HN seems to upvote them anyway so I seem to be in the minority.

You know I said colons right? Not semi colons :)

Yeah the (annoyingly) excessive use of colons feels like recent Claude models to me.

Looks like author posted this themselves earlier, and even used Claude for the HN comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48958457

Tone deaf to have an (excessively verbose) LLM-generated readme for a blog product. Apparently writing a readme is too much to ask even for avid bloggers!

Fun (semi-related) fact, ClickHouse was originally developed by Yandex :)

> That's too much effort to decipher a HN post.

It would have been less effort than it took you to write this comment. Perhaps next time that you can’t be bothered, just ignore the comment and move on to another thread that meets your required spoonfeeding levels.

Interesting choice of word; I wasn’t whinging, just trying to explain to the other commenter something useful. Flagging gives zero detail or nuance. Which presumably is why you replied instead of flagging my comment ;)

If you allowlist javascript then yes your annoyance is tangential, and no it is not interesting for us to read you complain about. Hence why the HN guideline (that was quoted above) exists.

(I also allowlist javascript. Regardless of your philosophical standpoint, many websites do break. If you don’t want “smacks me in the face multiple times a day” then stop allowlisting javascript.)

> Nowadays most of my processing happens on the GPU, so htop/top better evolve or become mostly irrelevant

If you’re a 3D rendering designer, an ML engineer or a crypto bro, then sure.

Here are the common workloads (for the average SWE on HN) that use CPU/RAM:

  - compilation/builds
  - language servers and IDEs
  - test suites
  - local containers
  - local databases
  - node tooling
  - browsers
  - data processing
  - compression and encryption
  - searching/indexing

Ok sure, top/htop is totally irrelevant now /s

I had an emotionally abusive partner. But they didn’t force me to become depressed and anxious. They didn’t force me to have to medicate. So yeah it really was just completely my fault.

/s

The name reminds me of Woomba, the hilarious SNL parody of Roomba back when it was initially going mainstream: https://youtu.be/gqesEYUXr78

I remember also hosing the bootloader somehow on my first try of Linux, luckily my personal desktop so no collatoral damage!

After that I always had a CD wallet thing with copies of sysresccd and supergrubdisk and others (including I think an old knoppix cd from a linux magazine).