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Re:The revolt of the reader on Sunday September 06, 2026 @10:39AM (#49586940)
I enjoyed the piece. Yet, what I don't understand is the author's endorsement of Pangram ... I don't like that without interacting with authors they just labeled texts (articles, novels etc.) as AI generated (they got a lot of publicity with it). Yet, given that the work is probabilistic and there's never 100 %, I find that irresponsible. I would have expected that they would have had at least the decency to tell the authors before they published their "accusations" publicly.

Also, there are relatively easy ways to prevent being recognized and I assume as now the use of LLMs changes our way of writing and speaking, it will get harder and harder for these detection tools. We will see more false positives (as for the future there will be no text 100 % authored by humans to train on).

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hrpQxfYvF6CBGWfJX/pangram-ai...

As English is my second language, I find the help of an LLM in editing text very useful. Yet, I agree with others that I don't want to read completely LLM generated texts.

Re:Poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor on Saturday September 05, 2026 @11:31AM (#49577510)
The discussion and this reminds me on the problems with Xerox Scanners:

https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...

We have to trust our tech ...

Re:Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion... on Monday August 17, 2026 @07:11PM (#49338960)
I’m frustrated since August with the results from Claude for English text editing … I didn’t look for that. It’s just a fact.

This is not about em dashes …

Re:Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion... on Monday August 17, 2026 @08:20AM (#49329692)
That’s my point of the post … I had the feeling that the English text editing skills of Claude went significantly down in August.

I was frustrated at first not knowing what they are doing.

After I read this post, (seeing they introduced it in August) I think it has to do with the watermarking.

Try it on a paragraph … the connections between sentences feel clunky now.

I will play with it more and see if that’s really the case (the watermarking making the text edits worse).

Re:Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion... on Monday August 17, 2026 @04:29AM (#49327882)
One could also use butterflies to write ;) https://xkcd.com/378/

The problem is, that LLMs worked very well for me to improve my writing. Especially as I'm not a native speaker, it was a great way to improve the legibility of my work.

I want a tool that helps me improve my writing. A tool I can learn from. Not a tool that switches out "bananas" to "airplanes."

I'm was using Claude Opus and now Fabel extensively for editing my texts and I find the recent updates abysmal. Not sure if it's due to the Text Watermark.

Before Claude was great in sharpening the meaning in my writing, it's now close to unusable.

Re:Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026? on Saturday May 30, 2026 @03:15PM (#48339690)
Looks nice. Funny, I also made a dictation app using claude ... yet just for iOS. https://kaikunze.de/aimemo/
Re:Map of Metal on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @09:09AM (#48207083)
Reminded me a bit on the design space of Metal logos: https://renecutura.eu/metalvis/
Re:The workers behind Meta's smart glasses can see everything on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @01:51AM (#47229023)
I think this coverage feels very similar to the way Google Glass was treated back in the early 2010s ... there’s a grain of legitimate concern, but the article oversells what these glasses actually do and stokes alarm in a way that goes beyond the available facts.

Workers annotating data for AI might see sensitive content captured by smart glasses. But the leap from that to “we see everything” and framing it like some dystopian panopticon mirrors the early Google Glass panic, where the concerns often outran what the device actually could do.

Legitimate concerns shouldn’t be dismissed, but neither should they be inflated to create a new “Glass-forked-into-Big-Brother” narrative unless the evidence genuinely supports that level of risk ...

Show HN: Alpha of a Speech to Text iOS App (Feature Requests Welcome)

Posted by kgarten on Monday March 02, 2026 @01:09PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://kaikunze.de/aimemo/

As the title says, I have been playing a bit with whisper.cpp and the Apple Speech to Text models and put out a small demo app.Wondering where to go from here. I was thinking to remove the ads form the free version and add an AI summary to the payed one.Ideas welcome. Btw, source code is here: https://github.com/kkai/aimemo

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Re:Show HN: CranKen – A Math Puzzle Game for the Play.date on Saturday February 28, 2026 @03:07PM (#47199632)
btw, source code is here: https://github.com/kkai/CranKen
Re:A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch on Sunday January 25, 2026 @10:10PM (#46761415)
Quite a while back, a former student of mine built Nekoze :D

https://nekoze.app Nekoze warns you when you are hunched over.

Years back, we did a couple of whimsical prototypes along those lines (using J!NS MEME, smart glasses): https://youtu.be/LXIY2g-twOA

Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @09:54PM (#46627467)
https://kaikunze.de/

Source is here: https://github.com/kkai/web-source

Re:Scott Adams has died on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @07:22PM (#46610612)
I'm also not saying that the parent is AI generated. Just, that the text triggered for me my "Might be AI" alert. It's not only the em dash but the combination of em dash and rules of three (plus a couple of other hints).
Re:Scott Adams has died on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @05:42PM (#46609425)
“His peaks—the biting humor about corporate absurdity, the writing on systems thinking and compounding habits, the clarity about the gap between what organizations say and what they do—unquestionably made me healthier, happier, and wealthier.”

Maybe I’m getting cynical, yet every time I see an mdash and rules of 3, it triggers the feeling of “This sounds like AI” …

Here’s another example:

“ I can avoid the ugliness—the racism, the grievance, the need to be right at any cost.”

Re:Liberating Bluetooth on the ESP32 on Saturday December 27, 2025 @11:06PM (#46408336)
Why not link to the official recording ?

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-liberating-bluetooth-on-the-esp3...

Re:40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @09:15AM (#46288729)
wondering why you are downvoted. You are right, though it's kind of inferred that the author means fMRI as the title focuses on brain activity only.
Re:The Nerd Reich – Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy on Thursday November 27, 2025 @06:21AM (#46068195)
My heart goes out to you.
Re:DSP 101 Part 1: An Introductory Course in DSP System Design on Thursday November 27, 2025 @03:35AM (#46067087)
thanks!
Re:DSP 101 Part 1: An Introductory Course in DSP System Design on Thursday November 27, 2025 @01:29AM (#46066349)
Great content, yet why are the figures so horrible in terms of resolution. I’m reading it on my smart phone and have a hard time deciphering anything on these images.
Re:CS234: Reinforcement Learning Winter 2025 on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:12PM (#46065161)
Which podcast?
Re:CS234: Reinforcement Learning Winter 2025 on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @10:18PM (#46053859)
Are the videos available somewhere?

spring course is on YouTube https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rN4wG6Nk6sNpT...

Re:I built an faster Notion in Rust on Monday November 24, 2025 @09:23AM (#46034433)
Logseq? (Though it uses md)
Re:Claudeskills.cc – Share, Discover, and Reuse Claude/OpenAI Agent Sk... on Saturday October 25, 2025 @02:49AM (#45701830)
Is this all vibe coded? (mdashes ;) ... I cannot see how one can publish agent skills /task capabilities on the site. It seems to be just a list of open resources (most likely also found using claude or ChatGPT ?).
Re:Glasses-free 3D using webcam head tracking on Thursday October 23, 2025 @01:37AM (#45678479)
It works for me, just needs a time to load.
Re:Blinkenlights on Monday January 20, 2025 @05:20AM (#42767109)
My first thought went to Project Blinkenlights https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blinkenlights

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