News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

nilsherzig

Re:The Future of CSS on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:53PM (#50186668)
He even cites the reasons for that over engineering in the post you've linked?

Also, even before reading the comments, I was pleasantly surprised that everything on that page worked and nothing bothered me. There is a good amount of attention to detail (switching of the rounding on codeblocks when switching to light mode for example, avoiding a weird corner on mobile). Nothing moves around on load etc. I know this is a low bar, but it's gotten pretty rare, even for pages linked on here.

I'm trying to say that his 100k lines might actually be spent on attention to detail and aren't just slop.

Fyi, if you're trying to run this under AMD/HIP:

PTQ1_0 has no optimized MMQ-Path in their llama-cpp fork, try running PTQ2_0 (needs a bit more vram, but is about 2x faster on my 6700 XT)

https://gist.github.com/nilsherzig/b8266d001c5c01bdb3d81d209...

Re:Show HN: Extension to filter LLM written articles on Saturday September 12, 2026 @03:02AM (#49669690)
Please explain what you mean by "AI assisted usefull content is always fine".

Here is a detailed explanation from Pangram how their scoring works https://www.pangram.com/research/how-it-works

the website of this company is using more resources than their main product is (would really appreciate a button to turn of the animation)
Re:Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI on Friday September 11, 2026 @03:21PM (#49663917)
yea fair, probably not
Re:Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI on Friday September 11, 2026 @03:05PM (#49663653)
There you go :) https://hnslop.nilsherzig.com/

as an extension so you can continue to comment and use hn as usual

Re:Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI on Friday September 11, 2026 @01:24PM (#49662007)
"Made with <3 by ..." Yea it is

Show HN: Extension to filter LLM written articles

https://hnslop.nilsherzig.com/

Firefox Extension/Userscript and API to get Pangram scores for all articles on the hackernews frontpage. The extension allows you to hide articles with a high score.This is about detecting posts written by LLMs, not posts about AI.Feel free to use the API to build your own tooling/readers.Big thanks to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=salahadawi for providing the data :).

( Read More... | 3 comments | 5 points | on HN )
Re:Show HN: Hacker News, without AI on Friday September 11, 2026 @01:07PM (#49661744)
added a firefox extension :)
Re:Show HN: Hacker News, without AI on Friday September 11, 2026 @01:05PM (#49661720)
Will do, thanks for hcker.news btw, has been my main mobile client for couple of months. Of all things i like the changelog most, its nice to have a quick view about new stuff, especially if the website changes somewhat faster than usual.
Re:Show HN: Hacker News, without AI on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:43PM (#49661385)
Yea very expensive (hence me siphoning another page haha).

Im trying to get something cheaper to work, Pangram has some nice docs on how to build something like their service https://github.com/pangramlabs/EditLens, they even have training data online.

The harm a missclassification carries is much lower for a hn post than a masters thesis, so we might be fine with a worse model.

Re:Show HN: Hacker News, without AI on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:27PM (#49661108)
nvm sorry, just read the "how this works" comment from OP. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660301

OPs solution does more than keyword filtering. But its still about filtering out "content about ai" not filtering out "ai written content".

Re:Show HN: Hacker News, without AI on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:23PM (#49661036)
If a Userscript solution is fine for you, see my recent comments :)
Re:Show HN: Hacker News, without AI on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:22PM (#49661029)
Here is an approach to filtering LLM written content: https://hnslop.nilsherzig.com/

Instead of filtering keywords this ranks the content using Pangram. But it's also pretty effective at filtering content about AI. Turns out that a lot of LLM tooling projects have LLM written project descriptions/blog posts.

It's amazing to see how many of the "AI hurts my brain" posts are apparently written by an LLM.

Re:Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks on Thursday September 10, 2026 @04:27PM (#49649722)
Not going to discuss this further, but wanted to apologize for my message. I was annoyed and should've waited before sending. Sorry.
Re:Software Drives People Insane on Thursday September 10, 2026 @03:06PM (#49648769)
Pretty decent output, mind sharing the prompt and model used? I struggle getting text i enjoy reading

https://www.pangram.com/history/5a4b90c6-0123-4f97-b50e-9c90...

Re:Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @05:57PM (#49635007)
If you really wanted to optimize something involving living consciousness beings like a machine, at least you should consider things like the need to take a piss as a hard constraint and design the system around it.

Don't get me wrong I love factorio like the next guy and understand the idea behind your thinking, but there should be limits to that thinking in the real world. And if that doesn't convince you consider the efficiency loss of a depressed worker with a urinary tract infection.

Honestly - and I don't mean that as an insult - I hope for you to experience (just once) the loss of dignity that not being able to visit the restroom on your own decision will give you. Might make you realize the hell this kind of thinking leads to.

Re:Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:30PM (#49616584)
Weirdly still so much more human (and somewhat relatable) than he ever was in an interview
Re:Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:26PM (#49616542)
Maybe... if run locally with full transparency into the prompts (including system etc) and independent benchmarks for the models (i.e. tests on how eager they are about selling me stuff)

But even in this hypothetical world I would still have a hard time teaching an LLM what I find important in a product. Not everything can be captured in easy to compare numbers. "Does the device creak under pressure?", "What's the one weirdly unergonomic thing about it you only notice after weeks of using?"... Stuff like that. Things which are easy to miss even if the model ingests all relevant reviews about the product, because it might not stand out, but might be important for me.

Re:ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:42PM (#49615855)
Re:ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:31PM (#49615657)
Dogs shadow didn't change
i really enjoyed that one
Re:Signing TLS handshakes inside a TPM on Monday September 07, 2026 @03:57AM (#49595303)
Re:The revolt of the reader on Sunday September 06, 2026 @08:28AM (#49585886)
update: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582725 shared another page which already does the parsing and pangram requests. I wrote a little wrapper and userscript based extension around it (https://github.com/nilsherzig/hnslop), hope that helps!
Re:The revolt of the reader on Sunday September 06, 2026 @08:26AM (#49585875)
created a little wrapper and userscript based browser extension https://hnslop.nilsherzig.com/
Re:The revolt of the reader on Sunday September 06, 2026 @05:23AM (#49584678)
I have (an API, not an extension), but pangram is way to expensive for me to run, current (v4) pricing is $0.05 per 100 words. Should be absolutely doable if we split the cost between users tho.

I tried searching for good opensource / reasonably priced alternatives, pangram themselves even have some of their older architecture and training data on github/hugging face, but i never got that working reliably enough.

checks out:

> In 2006, SoftwareOnline was sued by The Washington State Attorney General's Office for alleged violations of the Consumer Protection Act after complaints were made about two products called "Registry Cleaner" and "InternetShield".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer#:~:text=16%5D-,In...

Re:Ask HN: What is one simple thing LLMs are insanely bad at? on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @03:18AM (#49445167)
Removing stuff without mentioning the removal.

Asking an LLM to remove an Idea from a Document often times results in an edit which explicitly states that this Idea is not relevant, instead of just removing all references to that Idea.

That might be useful for some form of "evolving" Documentation (so future readers know that this part of the search space was covered and deemed irrelevant) but is just overly verbose and confusing to read in most situations.

Re:Ask HN: What is one simple thing LLMs are insanely bad at? on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @03:14AM (#49445137)
You can get better results from less aligned models like Kimi K3. Still not actually funny, but at least it’s able to produce some unhinged stuff and I guess shock and twists are kinda related to humor?

Still missing the human connection of cause, so im not sure if this is a technical / skill issue in the first place.

Re:Ask HN: What is one simple thing LLMs are insanely bad at? on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @03:09AM (#49445103)
That's a Claude thing btw. Try using a harness which does not inject half a novel of instructions in combination with a different model. I would recommend Pi + GPT 5.6 Luna for a very capable and cheap test.

After using Claude (paid by work) for a couple of months, I was amazed how well instruction following works in other setups.

Older »