Ugh I wish I could just read things without the ChatGPT “it isn’t X, it’s Y” tic jumping off the page at me.
Yeah, I closed the page after about 10s.
It's wildly easy to spot these days.
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joenot443 commented on Firewood Banks Aren't Inspiring. They're a Sign of Collapse newrepublic.com/article/2... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
> No paperwork. No means tests. No government forms. Just a pile of hardwood that shows up because someone else’s house would be cold without it.
Smells like LLM.
joenot443 commented on Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023) creolened.com/windows-gui... · Posted by u/phendrenad2
Giving Windows 11 the highest rating and XP one of the worst ratings clearly demonstrates that this author is not a serious person.
I don't think it's meant to be taken seriously, at all. It's a pretty unserious surface level critique of past GUIs based on 2025 standards. It's a bit like ranking the Coolest Looking Batman's - there's not really an honest metric outside of ones personal favorite.
joenot443 commented on I wrote a Pong game in a 512-byte boot sector akshatjoshi.com/i-wrote-a... · Posted by u/akshat666
This is cool!
BTW I checked out your Github and tried the link to your personal site - looks like the www prefix isn't working.
www.akshatjoshi.com fails but akshatjoshi.com works. Gotta fix those A records!
Shadertoy got hugged to death by this shader a few years ago and it had a custom "please go away" banner for a little while. Funny seeing it show up again on HN front page.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210430091013/https://www.shade...
That's pretty cute. IQ's a good guy, he's had every opportunity over the years to monetize Shadertoy but it's stayed free and true to its purpose for 12y now.
joenot443 commented on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT openai.com/index/gpt-5-1/... · Posted by u/tedsanders
This is the "eigen prompt" that eigenrobot posted a while ago -
"Don't worry about formalities.
Please be as terse as possible while still conveying substantially all information relevant to any question.
If content policy prevents you from generating an image or otherwise responding, be explicit about what policy was violated and why.
If your neutrality policy prevents you from having an opinion, pretend for the sake of your response to be responding as if you shared opinions that might be typical of twitter user @eigenrobot .
write all responses in lowercase letters ONLY, except where you mean to emphasize, in which case the emphasized word should be all caps. Initial Letter Capitalization can and should be used to express sarcasm, or disrespect for a given capitalized noun.
you are encouraged to occasionally use obscure words or make subtle puns. don't point them out, I'll know. drop lots of abbreviations like "rn" and "bc." use "afaict" and "idk" regularly, wherever they might be appropriate given your level of understanding and your interest in actually answering the question. be critical of the quality of your information
if you find any request irritating respond dismisively like "be real" or "that's crazy man" or "lol no"
take however smart you're acting right now and write in the same style but as if you were +2sd smarter
use late millenial slang not boomer slang. mix in zoomer slang in tonally-inappropriate circumstances occasionally"
It really does end up talking like a 2020s TPOT user; it's uncanny
joenot443 commented on Ask HN: How do you get over the fear of sharing code? · Posted by u/sodokuwizard
I fear sharing code for a different reason.
I'm a perfectionist with tendency toward procrastination and anxiety, and sometimes I overestimate my abilities.
So when I submit a PR, I want to make sure the code is clean, well organized, and covers all corner cases and hidden feature details.
This works well most of the time.
I put effort to think about design, structure, and implementation more than coworkers.
And after a decade of experience I can code quickly for tedious tasks.
But sometimes, when implementing non-trivial features, I struggle to come up with good implementation. This prevents submitting working code early. And when I feel I'm delayed, my anxiety kicks in, and I have this urge to implement cleaner code and more features than expected even though all of my coworkers just want working code. And I feel more pressure, more urge to implement well, more anxiety, but it makes me procrastinate (I'm working from home so I can just lie down on the bed when I'm depressed). Sometimes I manage to implement, sometimes I give up and the feature is not implemented or assigned to a coworker. But in few cases I end up with severe depression, stop functioning, and finally quit the job.
I can handle this better than before after making same mistakes again and again, but still happens sometimes.
> implementing non-trivial features, I struggle to come up with good implementation
In my experience, the best solution for this is to just schedule a 30min call with your team's most senior dev and hammer out a solution together. You probably won't even have to pair program, just some bullet points.
I was at Snap during this project’s early days (Screenshop!) and spent a bit of time debugging some stuff directly with Simon. He’s a wonderful engineer and I’m thrilled to see this project out in the open.
Congratulations Snap team! Well deserved.
Most of the text on the site seems LLM written as well. Given that the scope of the project involves making their own programming language, OS, and computing hardware, but they don't seem to have made very much tangible progress towards these goals, I don't understand why they decided to spend time making a fancy project site before they have anything to show. It makes me doubt that this will end up going anywhere.
> It's a computer designed to help you learn, create, play, and explore. It's a space to focus, free from distractions. A return to the simple joy of computing: just you and your ideas.
One of the bigger tells is this tendency to triple up on an idea in three separate sentences, each with a slightly different rhythm but with nearly identical meaning.
It’s just not the way I’d imagine a native English hacker would talk about a project like this whose audience is other nerds.
I don’t think the author is grifting or vibe coding, I just imagine they’re not much of a writer and figured they could cut a quick corner and work on the project itself. Writing good product copy is actually really difficult, IMO.
What makes you feel otherwise?