There's also the irony that this AI written piece criticizes how low the domains are on the tranco list when trellner.com doesn't even make the list, haha.
Look at the posters recent posts, these are 4 very similar AI sites, all similarly (badly) written by AI. I'm surprised his submissions aren't flagged.
What is Jakob's end game, to chase clout or get a job out or this?
As Jakob says on his own site:
The bar is shockingly low
You’re competing against people who barely care and barely try
If you turn on [showdead] the submission history looks even more unnatural. The account seems to be mostly self-promotional or marketing of some sort.
Agreed, I thought the subject matter was interesting enough to try and labour through the tedious prose, but once I got to "Their scale is the point." I just had to stop and just skim the rest.
And here's the rub: it's not just you who had to stop, lots of readers had to stop. You are not alone in this and were absolutely right to point this out. But alone or not, you did you, and that's the point.
Weird, there are 2 negative articles on the HN front page right now about Perplexity, both from “research” sites that are clearly LLM slop themselves.
Both by the same poster? Check out his other recent posts...
Indeed. A google/brave search on that founder generated nada.
Pretty sure that OP ("jakobgreenfeld") is the "founder". That user's last four submissions have all been similar "finding" reports from a Claude-generated mystery research group website.
I had the opposite reaction: maybe it was not written by AI, but it would have been better if it was.