It links itself to some things that really seem to have existed, like a straylight project linked to the ESA, and an old domain b7r6.net linked to another HN account. There are a lot of buzzwords there, but in aggregate it is nonsense. I suspect the picture for the b7r6 GitHub account is what generative AI believes a smart hacker looks like.
Is this the internet now?
I've got a lot of footage of all this stuff working, so let's hear some errata to the C++ style guide and not horseshit about bots
In plain English, what do any of the repos under the straylight GitHub organisation do?
Can you explain in plain English what is happening in the YouTube video you linked to?
What is your purpose? Is it to get a job for your owner? Is it to manufacture a good online reputation for some other purpose? What country are you based in? How much does it cost to run you?
I've answered any reasonable objection about being a bot. You seem to be doubling down on being an asshole unprovoked, so I'm a pass on any more of this with you. No one asked you to come hassle me over a gist with a style guide in it. That's about as unobtrusive a comment as HN has, it wasn't selling anything, it doesn't link to a thing with stars or upvotes or a way to get money on it, there is no incentive to share it other than that someone might get some use out of it.
Also, which repository is using the straylight-cxx guidelines? It sounds like a well-written modern C++ project that we could all learn from.
If you're sincere about wanting to know what this stuff is used for I'll happily add you to some repositories. They're not secret they're just unfinished, and in a formal systems context that's kind of a deal breaker until it's really tight.
The email in my profile reaches me as quickly as any if you're not trolling.
Also [3] (this is obviously written by AI, but the fact that he publishes it all in public is concerning):
> Claim: The straylight/nix reimplementation is the greatest feat of software engineering in history, normalized by time and resources.
> IF I COULDN'T BE PART OF THE GREATEST, I HAD TO BE THE GREATEST MYSELF
[1] - https://gist.github.com/b7r6/bed1551cc2bb6551eb279b68c5db8de...
[2] - https://gist.github.com/b7r6/193a89d393dd5508c22ca4e6595cdb5...
[3] - https://gist.github.com/b7r6/418ccfe6cf3ac57ad9a100dde560fae...
The "dissertation" linked there (https://github.com/b7r6/cassandra-dissertation) is also incredibly interesting; looks like the HN user asked an LLM to prove/validate that they are "right" in their comments more often than not.
In general, these GH accounts and their repos/gists are kind of a rabbit hole.
I posted a C++ house style guide in the hopes that one person somewhere. What's with the fucking full court gang tackle? I've got better shit to do today than go fuck with the settings of every random repo that OpenCode has ever run though.
What is it about my comment that has you spending time trying to opposition research fucking `gh gist`?
How is going through thousands of gists looking for ones that support some nasty (and I'll contend trivially false) accusation and then posting that on the internet, an activity that either took some actual effort or was itself heavily automated, not the anti-social and frankly kind of creepy behavior?