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Re:Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser by dofm on Saturday October 17, 2026 @12:25PM (#50132445)
I actually want to have a play with this sometime. But honestly, these gigantic, poorly-formatted AI-slop paragraphs like the one below this heading…

https://github.com/mikroverk/esp32sim#boards-esp32-s3

… are just too much with their dense mix of formatting, brackets, semantic punctuation, command line arguments and part numbers etc. (This one is particularly absurd but it's not the only one).

I may be middle-aged now and a non-expert but I am pretty sure these things are generally exhausting to even expert young readers. I would urge you to reconsider how this page is presented.

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Re:Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser by exe34 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @01:27PM (#50133071)
#this-should-have-been-a-table.
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Re:Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser by rvz on Saturday October 17, 2026 @12:45PM (#50132643)
I can tell that a README.md becomes a DONTREADME.md when its contents are:

   1) As long as a novel.

   2) Poorly formatted.

   3) Has several claudisms in each sentence.
It is one that I am not going to read and not even the author read it themselves either.

It’s also a predictor of the level of slop in a project since it is getting worse with the people talking about “code quality” have now vanished and are no where to be found.

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Re:Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser by joakimeriksson on Sunday October 18, 2026 @04:16AM (#50139053)
True... Will take a pass - we are planning a 0.3.0. release I guess that is when we also should make it possible for humans to read the README and not only for agents...
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Re:Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser by joakimeriksson on Sunday October 18, 2026 @04:15AM (#50139047)
Yes, I can agree - no one can read the docs anymore - too long and to messy. Will consider taking a pass on that soon. Thanks for the feedback! I did not really expect this level of interest when I started - just to avoid carrying all esp32 devices all the time - for demoing...
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