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Re:SupererDuperer
on Saturday August 08, 2026 @06:16AM (#49220399)
GOTO https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219219
Re:SupererDuperer
on Saturday August 08, 2026 @01:37AM (#49219152)
No.
Then the article isn't for you. That's okay!
Not every piece of writing has to be delicately crafted to the sensibilities of The Hacker News Reader.
Just because someone parachutes it onto the frontpage one day doesn't change that.
But if you're still curious and you can't find the easily reachable homepage then that's on you.
Re:SupererDuperer
on Saturday August 08, 2026 @01:21AM (#49219093)
Yikes.
From this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20260131221257/https://www.shirt...
to this:
https://www.shirtpocket.com/classic.php
The site looks like every other Claudesite, the docs are Claudemade, and I imagine Claude did the v4 rewrite. There's already been one bugfix release, probably more to come if the super-smart LLM took shortcuts around arcane MacOS esoterica in the name of "optimization".
Re:Welcome to Agents Week
on Sunday August 02, 2026 @02:35PM (#49147085)
Welcome to Marketing Week
More substantively: This blogpost, on its own, does not contribute anything beyond Cloudflare announcing a topline brand objective for FY26/27.
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
on Thursday July 30, 2026 @01:45PM (#49113240)
Does the model get the credit for its promo packet then? :^)
Re:Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
on Thursday July 30, 2026 @01:01PM (#49112694)
I love this kind of optimized-for-Xitter drive-by market analysis. Very 2026.
Re:I Have Thoughts on the iPhone Air
on Thursday July 30, 2026 @04:18AM (#49107301)
>thinnest iphone ever
>slaps 0.2" thick xteink ereader on back
Re:X permanently banned my 15-year-old account for sharing my own open...
on Friday July 17, 2026 @01:40AM (#48943691)
Author, your comments in this thread do not follow the HN guidelines, please stop replying to people with AI-generated comments.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
The Claudemade submission text is grating enough to read (it could have been a quarter of the length).
Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – for 100x the...
on Saturday July 11, 2026 @04:57AM (#48870162)
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
Re:AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region
on Friday July 10, 2026 @05:37AM (#48857782)
>Expose brain to something, record it somehow, see if brains reaction in the recording helps you understand more about who we are and what cognition is.
It also helps companies like Moonbug Entertainment (Candle Media) understand how to build better Distractatrons.
It’s a small TV screen, placed a few feet from the larger one, that plays a continuous loop of banal, real-world scenes — a guy pouring a cup of coffee, someone getting a haircut — each lasting about 20 seconds. Whenever a youngster looks away from the Moonbug show to glimpse the Distractatron, a note is jotted down.
“It’s not mega-interesting, what’s on the Distractatron,” said Maurice Wheeler, who runs the research group. “But if they aren’t fully focused, they might go, ‘Oh, what’s that?’ and kind of drift over. We can see what they’re looking at and the exact moment when they got distracted.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/17/cocomelon-chil...
What a world.
Re:Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zer...
on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:10AM (#48847261)
>That’s just how some humans write.
Sure, but we can't handwave away every observation about LLM output with "(some of) the original training corpora came from humans". Qualitatively, the vibes are off™.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uok58g/claudes_s...
https://x.com/emollick/status/2049894109318459798
Remember the gremlin thing?
Re:Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zer...
on Thursday July 09, 2026 @10:27AM (#48846447)
The readme is full of compound Claudeisms, so why not ;-)
per-shot energy
frame-accurate
word-pop
reference-video
CSS-@keyframes-animated SVGs render frame-accurately
Re:Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
on Thursday July 09, 2026 @03:19AM (#48842103)
Individual account signup date is an unreliable proxy for lifetime HN experience :^)
Further, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079 suggests HN is facing a sea change unlike any past fad (Big Data, VR/AR, NFT, Web3, ...). Due to Brandolini's law, it cannot simply be disregarded with the "semi-noob illusion as old as the hills" cudgel.
Re:I think I have LLM burnout
on Thursday July 09, 2026 @02:58AM (#48841950)
This may actually be a solid way to tackle the bullshit asymmetry problem caused by drive-by LLM sloppers.
Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @08:29AM (#48831074)
>I wonder if the script itself was written by an LLM before obfuscation?
I seem to recall seeing an Akamai-branded base64'd shell script on a white shirt pre-2021(?), so unless they've changed the code since then, I doubt it...
Re:Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents ...
on Saturday June 27, 2026 @05:46PM (#48702068)
Yeah, I'll stick with the oneliner.
Re:Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
on Friday June 26, 2026 @01:35PM (#48689456)
For me, it's GPT-5.9 Year of the Whisper-Quiet Maytag Dishmaster
Re:Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
on Friday June 26, 2026 @01:27PM (#48689323)
Flagged activity can also trigger account-level review across relevant conversations and risk signals, consistent with our terms and policies around content retention and review. Looking beyond a single conversation helps our systems distinguish persistent malicious behavior from legitimate dual-use security work, where similar technical concepts may appear in very different contexts.
Every conversation you have with these "more capable" models will be monitored and joined up and then your entire account might one day be tagged as Distiller or Cyber Threat Actor or whatnot. When combined with identity verification (which isn't discussed in this press release), expect people to be falsely flagged and banned from ever using OpenAI models again.
Wish I could find the thread from last week where discussions of exactly this kind of thing were dismissed as daft and outlandish.
Re:Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not
on Friday June 26, 2026 @09:11AM (#48686214)
Filter what? Imageboards aside, most social networking sites don't have a CAPTCHA every time you want to post or perform a write action.
Re:Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not
on Friday June 26, 2026 @08:49AM (#48686038)
>This still makes no sense to me, for practical applications.
Now you're getting it! :^)
Re:"Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10...
on Thursday June 25, 2026 @12:21PM (#48675687)
Exactly my question. 600 lines of Swift-in-shell-wrapper and Claude couldn't have run sysdiagnose and vibed out a quick report to throw into Feedback Assistant?
Re:Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of 'Illicitly' Accessing AI Models
on Thursday June 25, 2026 @02:36AM (#48669794)
Same thing nowadays :^)
Re:Pull request limits are cutting down the noise
on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @04:33PM (#48665273)
Some AI folks want to bifurcate the meaning of "token" towards a spendable store of value, rather than characters processed by a tokenizer.
"Donate tokens". "Gift tokens". Semantic drift?
Re:
on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @02:30PM (#48663910)
I'm going to do a simonw here and coin "Markdown hoarding" for the Claudeism of producing reams of hyper-dense prose and compounding it with every commit that touches docs. The documentation gets more and more bloated.
The default Claude voice is breathless, jargon-heavy showboating:
WebRTC transport (trickle ICE) — RTCPeerConnection data channels with trickle signaling; same-machine mDNS-loopback rewrite. Browser/device-verified. peerd-distributed/transport/transports/webrtc.js
TOFU rootfs integrity pin — pure decision logic: trust-on-first-use pin of base-image size + first-64KiB SHA-256, verified each boot, fails closed on drift. Head-only by construction — a faithful-head/tampered-tail host is an acknowledged residual gap. peerd-engine/image-pin.js (partial)
PDF reading (read_pdf) — pdf.js text-layer extraction with opt-in SRI-pinned OCR engine + page assembly. pdf/, tools/defs/read-pdf.js
Re:How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?
on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @01:26AM (#48655530)
>Better to find some therapy
This is an inappropriate suggestion.
You should review the guidelines before posting here again.
Re:Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance
on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @08:01AM (#48643670)
The model considered it.
There are 25 or so mentions of fp16 and fp32 weights across the 7500+ words of Markdown text it generated. So the next question might be: Did it make the right calls?
https://github.com/simonw/moebius-web/blob/main/notes.md
https://github.com/simonw/moebius-web/blob/main/plan.md
https://github.com/simonw/moebius-web/blob/main/research.md
https://github.com/simonw/moebius-web/blob/main/understandin...
Re:Cyberdecks, going analog, and convivial technology
on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @04:53AM (#48642182)
Re:They Looked Like They Were Getting Rich on Polymarket–But None of I...
on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:01AM (#48640524)
The actual verbiage is narrower.
First result with a summary of 16 CFR Part 465: Trade Regulation Rule on the Use of Consumer Reviews and Testimonials: https://www.goodwinlaw.com/en/insights/publications/2024/09/...
Re:Never Give Them Your Face
on Monday June 22, 2026 @12:14PM (#48632188)
Specific article aside, you may be interested in:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AISIGNS
https://github.com/blader/humanizer/blob/main/SKILL.md#conte...