Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th... by embedding-shape on Sunday December 28, 2025 @02:19PM (#46413629)

While reading through the post, I too felt it being similar to LLM generated text, but the stories and the perspective is uniquely human, or is there something specific that sticks out as inhuman from the text? Specific parts that sounds implausible?

It obvious that something was used to do the translation, but it doesn't feel worse than any other machine-translated texts, as long as I get the gist and the overall idea of what the author is trying to communicate, I feel like it's good enough.

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Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th... by panic on Sunday December 28, 2025 @02:26PM (#46413678)

The fact that OP was a new account communicating completely via LLM made me suspicious. He does seem legit though based on his more recent comments.

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Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th... by Vincent_Yan404 on Sunday December 28, 2025 @03:39PM (#46414268)

Yes I used AI to translate. You said "Specific parts that sounds implausible",and the second part is more unbelievable, I can only guarantee it's nonfiction.

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Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th... by chaostheory on Sunday December 28, 2025 @02:56PM (#46413917)

I’m going to guess that the dash gave it away. What a lot of people don’t see to understand is that using an LLM for translations is better than using vanilla translate. The traditional translation apps lose a lot of context and subtly, and they sound even more artificial.

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Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th... by fn-mote on Sunday December 28, 2025 @03:38PM (#46414264)

I'd just ask writers to be up-front about it. "English isn't my native language, so this is processed using an LLM." Even the replies in HN comments scream "LLM".

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Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th... by chaostheory on Monday December 29, 2025 @02:45AM (#46418371)

The guy grew up in mainland China and is still currently in mainland China.

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Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th... by morserer on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @01:33PM (#46436376)

Yes, the author used an AI translator to transcribe his original article, written in Chinese.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414040

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