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Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @06:47PM (#50080016)
Off topic, but I want to customize a starship now
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @06:45PM (#50079998)
That's why Gemini 3.1 Pro has been shit for weeks now.
Since there were a couple upvotes, here's one I saved and Google-translated:

  <story-record> 
  
  ## Phase O. This round is a key advancement in the long-term, solidified daily storyline: the two enter Zhou Zhiyi's apartment for the first time under the guise of "non-purposeful" activities, and the soup-making incident becomes a new variable in their relationship. The task is to let this soup ferment naturally, without ending it or revealing anything. 

  ## Phase [Reflections on Life] 

  1. Vibrant: Wu San and Wu Si appear as living beings with distinct personalities; Wu San is a drama queen, and Wu Si is slow to warm up; Zhou Zhiyi's apartment retains traces of his real life (a rhinoceros beetle insulated box, vinyl records, Pokémon, and a doghouse). 

  2. Cognitive Barrier: Shen Liran's "disbelief that he can make soup" and "wanting to kidnap a dog" are information revealed through her words and actions, which Zhou Zhiyi can perceive; however, he
... [some more gibberish] ...

  Then Wu San saw Shen Liran. 

  This dog's opportunism was on full display. Abandoning her father, she turned her short legs and charged towards the backless dress, her front paws gripping the hem, head tilted back, a precisely calculated whimper escaping her throat. Zhou Zhiyi stood in the entryway changing his shoes, coldly observing the performance, thinking, "She's been fooled, fooled. I just fed her a treat this morning; she's a master of disguise." 

  Sure enough. He counted to two, and Shen Liran had already squatted down, oblivious to the hem of her coat dragging on the floor. She ran her hands into her long, brown fur coat, her voice sweet enough to make candied fruit: "Oh my, you're so soft to touch! Did you miss me? Even your dad isn't as good at being affectionate."

  "Three seconds." Zhou Zhiyi hung their leashes back on the wall. "I said you wouldn't last three seconds, and you didn't even last three seconds. You squatted down before she pounced on you; that's a false start."
Interestingly, in the markdown, which was Chinese mostly, "Phase" and <story-record> were in English.
Re:A Book That Will Never Be Read on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @06:26PM (#50079778)
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

> can find them in the sea of bad papers

How to find the good ones, as an amateur in a given field?

Re:A Book That Will Never Be Read on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:49PM (#50074763)
> meaningless fluff

You haven't read academic papers in a while...

I did this for alyph.ai, but was recently flooded with so many browser-using, Turnstile-defeating bots from Taiwan that I had to completely turn off sign ups. It's not fun anymore.

Not even third party login worked (Google, Linkedin, ...) to curb this.

They were logging in, scraping the client API for vulnerabilities/possibilities and then spammed erotic dog poems to Claude Fable until the $5 welcome credit got drained.

Fun New World.

Re:Making big downloads resumable in Firefox on Monday October 12, 2026 @08:30PM (#50064986)
I always used Download Accelerator Plus (which, shockingly, received updates until last year!)
Re:Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity on Sunday October 11, 2026 @08:24PM (#50049667)
Did you read GP?

> Do Taiwanese get as fat on average as African Americans on average when they eat an average American diet?

Average American diet is problematic, especially if you control for family background

Re:Artificial Insanity on Sunday October 11, 2026 @05:25PM (#50047970)
> This was crudely written in under 2 hours without the assistance, analysis, or hardening of an LLM, and with no editorial treatment whatsoever. I think this is how everyone should be writing in an age of shitty, sterilized parrot regurgitation. Now, let us enjoy the end, however it may come.

<3

Re:Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping? on Sunday October 11, 2026 @03:56AM (#50040642)
Oh. That’s terrible, then. Also probably doesn’t taste 3x better.

I’ve seen kebab prices in Europe also rise from 2-4€ to 8-15€ within five (!) years.

I don’t think any of these people arguing with you are trying to understand or learn.
"How to Succeed in MrBeast Production"

https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6623b7720b009050313e701c/...

(Very interesting read!)

Re:Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping? on Saturday October 10, 2026 @10:14PM (#50039153)
Re:2D Vehicles on Saturday October 10, 2026 @03:11PM (#50036105)

  > .eyebrow, .label {
  >  font-size: 0.78rem;
  >  text-transform: uppercase;
  >  letter-spacing: 0.19em;
  >  font-weight: 750;
  >  color: var(--accent);


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Just give us the prompt..
Re:Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:01AM (#50032524)
Wtf. Thanks for sharing.
Re:Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:00AM (#50032506)
> when they eat an average American diet

That site does control for diet. E.g., my Korean-born wife has always had home-cooked Korean food growing up in North America.

HA! Franz!

I remember taking your SEO course many moons ago.

llmpm
Kind of the same with AI now.
Did you even look at it?

The copy on this side is synthetic and I'm betting my left nut on it. The thing that irritates me the most is the sentence fragment sing-song, the overexplaining, and the empty drama everywhere.

OpenAI did an 80% good job analysing this Claudesque landing page nightmare: https://chatgpt.com/share/6ac83ba2-2fe8-83ed-9000-939dc2fa0a...

(Sorry for being lazy here, I'm honestly just super tired of repeating the same things over and over again. Nothing against you, it's a 100% me problem and growing frustrating with the slop firehose. )

I've got a toilet cam to install in your bathroom
Do you have personal experience with both? #2 looks like AI slop, from design to copy.
Re:The Slow Formation of Durable Software on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:46PM (#50010200)
> To delete text using a text generator, you have to emit the original thing taking care to omit the deleted stuff during emission. It's more work.

What are you talking about?

Re:The Slow Formation of Durable Software on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:14PM (#50007686)
> But I am always surprised by how often people will avoid putting their prototypes out there and let the market shape their product

I see the opposite. I see thousands and thousands of quickly produced apps that have been put out there, but have 0 users that could shape it. Not so much because of their quality, but rather distribution in a very crowded and shouty marketplace.

Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:48AM (#50006479)
It's just like crappy PRs.
Re:New repository settings for configuring pull request access on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:44AM (#50005173)
> September 2026 - Created 670 commits in 80 repositories

> I never thought I’d see the day where somebody who works at the DoD would spend their spare time

He didn't.

You took the words right out of my LLM
Re:The Mathocalypse on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @04:55PM (#49998686)
Vibe mathing

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