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da_grift_shifton SupererDuperer

    GOTO https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219219

da_grift_shifton SupererDuperer

No.

Then the article isn't for you. That's okay!

Not every piece of writing has to be delicately crafted to the sensibilities of The Hacker News Reader.

Just because someone parachutes it onto the frontpage one day doesn't change that.

But if you're still curious and you can't find the easily reachable homepage then that's on you.

da_grift_shifton SupererDuperer

Yikes.

From this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260131221257/https://www.shirt...

to this:

https://www.shirtpocket.com/classic.php

The site looks like every other Claudesite, the docs are Claudemade, and I imagine Claude did the v4 rewrite. There's already been one bugfix release, probably more to come if the super-smart LLM took shortcuts around arcane MacOS esoterica in the name of "optimization".

https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/dog_dazed

da_grift_shifton Welcome to Agents Week

Welcome to Marketing Week

More substantively: This blogpost, on its own, does not contribute anything beyond Cloudflare announcing a topline brand objective for FY26/27.

da_grift_shifton Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

Does the model get the credit for its promo packet then? :^)

da_grift_shifton Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

I love this kind of optimized-for-Xitter drive-by market analysis. Very 2026.

da_grift_shifton I Have Thoughts on the iPhone Air

    >thinnest iphone ever
    >slaps 0.2" thick xteink ereader on back

da_grift_shifton X permanently banned my 15-year-old account for sharing my own open-source lib

Author, your comments in this thread do not follow the HN guidelines, please stop replying to people with AI-generated comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated

The Claudemade submission text is grating enough to read (it could have been a quarter of the length).

da_grift_shifton SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments

da_grift_shifton AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region

>Expose brain to something, record it somehow, see if brains reaction in the recording helps you understand more about who we are and what cognition is.

It also helps companies like Moonbug Entertainment (Candle Media) understand how to build better Distractatrons.

    It’s a small TV screen, placed a few feet from the larger one, that plays a continuous loop of banal, real-world scenes — a guy pouring a cup of coffee, someone getting a haircut — each lasting about 20 seconds. Whenever a youngster looks away from the Moonbug show to glimpse the Distractatron, a note is jotted down.

    “It’s not mega-interesting, what’s on the Distractatron,” said Maurice Wheeler, who runs the research group. “But if they aren’t fully focused, they might go, ‘Oh, what’s that?’ and kind of drift over. We can see what they’re looking at and the exact moment when they got distracted.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/arts/television/cocomelon...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/17/cocomelon-chil...

What a world.

da_grift_shifton Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

>That’s just how some humans write.

Sure, but we can't handwave away every observation about LLM output with "(some of) the original training corpora came from humans". Qualitatively, the vibes are off™.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uok58g/claudes_s...

https://x.com/emollick/status/2049894109318459798

Remember the gremlin thing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319285

da_grift_shifton Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

The readme is full of compound Claudeisms, so why not ;-)

    per-shot energy

    frame-accurate

    word-pop

    reference-video

    CSS-@keyframes-animated SVGs render frame-accurately

da_grift_shifton Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?

Individual account signup date is an unreliable proxy for lifetime HN experience :^)

Further, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079 suggests HN is facing a sea change unlike any past fad (Big Data, VR/AR, NFT, Web3, ...). Due to Brandolini's law, it cannot simply be disregarded with the "semi-noob illusion as old as the hills" cudgel.

da_grift_shifton I think I have LLM burnout

This may actually be a solid way to tackle the bullshit asymmetry problem caused by drive-by LLM sloppers.

da_grift_shifton Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

>I wonder if the script itself was written by an LLM before obfuscation?

I seem to recall seeing an Akamai-branded base64'd shell script on a white shirt pre-2021(?), so unless they've changed the code since then, I doubt it...

da_grift_shifton Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work

Yeah, I'll stick with the oneliner.

https://ghloc.vercel.app/kageroumado/adrafinil?branch=main

da_grift_shifton Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

For me, it's GPT-5.9 Year of the Whisper-Quiet Maytag Dishmaster

da_grift_shifton Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

    Flagged activity can also trigger account-level review across relevant conversations and risk signals, consistent with our terms and policies around content retention and review. Looking beyond a single conversation helps our systems distinguish persistent malicious behavior from legitimate dual-use security work, where similar technical concepts may appear in very different contexts.

Fascinating!

Every conversation you have with these "more capable" models will be monitored and joined up and then your entire account might one day be tagged as Distiller or Cyber Threat Actor or whatnot. When combined with identity verification (which isn't discussed in this press release), expect people to be falsely flagged and banned from ever using OpenAI models again.

Wish I could find the thread from last week where discussions of exactly this kind of thing were dismissed as daft and outlandish.

da_grift_shifton Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not

Filter what? Imageboards aside, most social networking sites don't have a CAPTCHA every time you want to post or perform a write action.

da_grift_shifton Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not

>This still makes no sense to me, for practical applications.

Now you're getting it! :^)

da_grift_shifton "Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds

Exactly my question. 600 lines of Swift-in-shell-wrapper and Claude couldn't have run sysdiagnose and vibed out a quick report to throw into Feedback Assistant?

da_grift_shifton Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

Same thing nowadays :^)

da_grift_shifton Pull request limits are cutting down the noise

Some AI folks want to bifurcate the meaning of "token" towards a spendable store of value, rather than characters processed by a tokenizer.

"Donate tokens". "Gift tokens". Semantic drift?

da_grift_shifton Show HN: peerd – AI agent harness that runs entirely in your browser

I'm going to do a simonw here and coin "Markdown hoarding" for the Claudeism of producing reams of hyper-dense prose and compounding it with every commit that touches docs. The documentation gets more and more bloated.

The default Claude voice is breathless, jargon-heavy showboating:

    WebRTC transport (trickle ICE) — RTCPeerConnection data channels with trickle signaling; same-machine mDNS-loopback rewrite. Browser/device-verified. peerd-distributed/transport/transports/webrtc.js

    TOFU rootfs integrity pin — pure decision logic: trust-on-first-use pin of base-image size + first-64KiB SHA-256, verified each boot, fails closed on drift. Head-only by construction — a faithful-head/tampered-tail host is an acknowledged residual gap. peerd-engine/image-pin.js (partial)

    PDF reading (read_pdf) — pdf.js text-layer extraction with opt-in SRI-pinned OCR engine + page assembly. pdf/, tools/defs/read-pdf.js

This isn't a critique of the author, more of Opus, but I'd be curious what effect https://github.com/blader/humanizer/blob/main/SKILL.md might have.

da_grift_shifton How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?

>Better to find some therapy

This is an inappropriate suggestion.

You should review the guidelines before posting here again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

da_grift_shifton Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance

The model considered it.

There are 25 or so mentions of fp16 and fp32 weights across the 7500+ words of Markdown text it generated. So the next question might be: Did it make the right calls?

https://github.com/simonw/moebius-web/blob/main/notes.md

https://github.com/simonw/moebius-web/blob/main/plan.md

https://github.com/simonw/moebius-web/blob/main/research.md

https://github.com/simonw/moebius-web/blob/main/understandin...

da_grift_shifton Cyberdecks, going analog, and convivial technology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)

da_grift_shifton Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators

The actual verbiage is narrower.

First result with a summary of 16 CFR Part 465: Trade Regulation Rule on the Use of Consumer Reviews and Testimonials: https://www.goodwinlaw.com/en/insights/publications/2024/09/...

da_grift_shifton Never Give Them Your Face

Specific article aside, you may be interested in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AISIGNS

https://github.com/blader/humanizer/blob/main/SKILL.md#conte...

da_grift_shifton Never Give Them Your Face

Yeah. If the "don't post AI generated comments" guideline was extended to cover posts, I wonder what % of recent front page articles would be impacted.