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calmoo··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Ironically the author isn't immune from publishing slop themselves. https://john.hartnup.uk/backpressure/
calmoo··on GPT-6 Astra
Gary is not a voice worth listening to. A narcissist, fraud and has terrible epistemics.
calmoo··on GPU World
That comment doesn’t read like slop in the slightest to me, so the people DMing you have a bad eye for it. Regardless, I think your ‘human’ sample is not a good indicator of the quality of pangram. I would update your priors a bit.
calmoo··on GPU World
I’ll be honest, i’ve never read text that is human written that reads as close to an LLM as your sample sounds.

I think discounting Pangram’s accuracy based on that sample isn’t very reasonable. Really nobody writes like that other than LLMs!

calmoo··on GPU World
I'll take your word that it's human written, but reading that gist, it absolutely reads like Claudeslop / GPT slop, it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that Pangram flagged it as AI when it reads identically to LLM output - this feels like a very acceptable edge case to me (assuming you are telling the truth).

Are you absolutely sure you wrote this by hand? If so it's kind of remarkable how close to an LLM you write like.

calmoo··on GPU World
Please share examples
calmoo··on GPU World
I’ve never actually seen someone give an example of what they say pangram get wrong, so please go ahead and share.
calmoo··on GPU World
Pangram is very accurate
calmoo··on Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
Will this likely fix stability issues in the Bun Workers API? https://bun.com/docs/runtime/workers
calmoo··on Zed Editor Theme-Builder
Interesting - now that I think about it, feeding Claude my particular Xcode theme from VS code to replicate in Zed, the color tones were quite far off how it looked in cursor. I don't know enough about color rendering to know why that is, but I feel you!
calmoo··on Idempotency is easy until the second request is different
I would usually agree, but I think we should be obligated to call out slop when we see it.
calmoo··on Zed Editor Theme-Builder
You could solve this fairly easily by giving an LLM the json definition of your sublime text theme and just transforming it onto a zed spec theme? No need for screenshots.
calmoo··on Idempotency is easy until the second request is different
I think this article (and the author's previous articles on their blog) is quite clearly AI written. It has such a frustratingly punctuated cadence and really does not serve the reader anything valuable.
calmoo··on Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
Is GC useful for a static type checker? Or did they make a new runtime?
calmoo··on Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?
Specifically with YAML, Go templating requires some special operators to get anything useful done and it ends up being an unreadable mess.
calmoo··on Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?
I've recently been dipping my toes into k8s / kustomize / helm, and I recently had a situation where having a base deployment yml template that I wanted to reuse across various deployments. I had a look at Helm and I was frankly shocked how bad the templating was with Go templates, it was close to unreadable and felt very brittle!
calmoo··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
It’s fast, looks nice and since i really just review agent output these days, that’s good enough. They don’t move everything around and it moves at a nice pace.
calmoo··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
On the contrary, anecdotally, myself and every engineer I know have switched fully from cursor to claude code since the start of the year. I now use zed with cc. I personally could not stand the buggy mess and constant UI changes of cursor. It’s also not good value in terms of claude tokens compared to claude code.
calmoo··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
HN already does a decent amount of content-policing, which helps keep the discussion higher quality. I don't see a huge diversion here from the usual moderation.
calmoo··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
I think a more generous interpretation of dang's comment is that it's fine to use LLMs / tools to fix grammatical errors / spellchecking, but a heavier pass where the prose, wording and tone is altered (even mildly) can create a 'slop ambience' over time, death by a thousand paper cuts.
calmoo··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
If you're referring to speaking in English - in general I think there is a huge amount of flexibility for making mistakes in English. I'm a native speaker, I am so used to hearing various levels of English from different nationalities that i'm almost blind to it. I much prefer to hear someones true voice even if there are a few inaccuracies, so much of a person's personality is conveyed through their quirks and mistakes.
calmoo··on Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation
I literally got a taxi today in Berlin because the trains were on strike, and the other day because the trains and trams were broken due to ice. You really can’t think of valid uses for a taxi?
calmoo··on What has Docker become?
For one, it has dynamic memory allocation and is much faster and resource efficient. Drop in replacement. It also has a rather nice UI,
calmoo··on Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
no, definitely not. It was 100% LLM written. Look at their post history.
calmoo··on Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
Your original comment is completely void of any substance or originality. Please don't fill the web with robot slop and use your own voice. We both know what you're doing here.
calmoo··on Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
Ironically your comment is clearly written by an LLM.
calmoo··on Gemini 3
Your comment is AI generated
calmoo··on Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites
It doesn't matter what the law is, it's setup to allow these malicious practices. It's bad legislation.
calmoo··on NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
Perfectly explained, thanks!
calmoo··on SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades
How much fraud we talking? I like to think along Matt Levine's ideas that at least some amount of fraud is acceptable - there will always be some amount of it and under or over-regulation creates a net-negative.
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