HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

mdrzn

2,045 karma · joined April 15, 2016

hackernews @ myusername .it

Here's how I recognize AI text: https://tropes.fyi/tropes-md

submissionscomments
mdrzn··on I got shadowbanned building a Reddit tool
Another AI slop blogspam article:

"There's no banner, no email, no strike count."

"Not low — zero."

"No upvotes, no downvotes, no replies, no traffic."

"No replies, no votes, not even a downvote"

"It wasn't one post — it was the pattern"

mdrzn··on Claude Sonnet 5
Edit June 30, 2026: In the original version of this post, we included a cost-performance chart for the BrowseComp evaluation that was based on data from a simpler methodology that did not reflect the standard methodology we use for agentic search evaluations. This had the result of underestimating Sonnet 5's performance on the evaluation.

They changed the Sonnet 5 'Agentic search' benchmark graph overnight

mdrzn··on 6 months looking for polish market b2bs
this homepage downloads 40mb of autoplaying AI videos, but the whole page reads like AI slop.
mdrzn··on A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML
Another AI slop article.

"the generated code quietly assumes you know everything in the eight layers above"

mdrzn··on The shift from browsing to commanding: Autonomous web agents in action
you forgot to logout from this astroturfing account before leaving this AI comment
mdrzn··on Why don't people use chatbots?
Feels like 1999 and we are asking "why don't people use the internet?"

Give it a couple years..

mdrzn··on Using Home Assistant in a botanical garden
Another AI-written article. Why would I bother reading if you don't bother writing?

"Here’s the part that should bother you: the data already exists. We generate it every second. We paid for the sensors that produce it. None of it is missing."

"Scope that claim honestly, or the people who know these tools will rightly call it. The application layer — what you see and adjust day to day — opens up to non-specialists. The infrastructure underneath — the server, the network, the boring boxes — still needs an owner."

3 quietly

31 dashes —

mdrzn··on Google hallucinated that I am sponsored by Ground News
@Rossmangroup also said that they endorse AI and want MORE datacenters to be open (he claims so in thousands of private videos on his youtube channel). It's an "open secret". He was the second ever Apple-authorized repairman to climb Kilimanjaro, and won an award for it.
mdrzn··on Mistral OCR 4
It'll be interesting to see how this ranks against https://github.com/baidu/Unlimited-OCR
mdrzn··on Elevated error rate across multiple models
The rainbow has to keep being a rainbow.

ClaudeCode still has a 99.27 % uptime

ClaudeCowork has 99.52 % uptime

ClaudeForGovernment has 99.93 % uptime

mdrzn··on Money Is Middleware
Another AI-slop article with no substance. Next time share the prompt instead of the full prose.
mdrzn··on Designing delightful front ends with GPT-5.4
"Mar 20, 2026"
mdrzn··on We sent 1k bots to a GA4 site. It counted every one as a real visitor
Another AI-generated blog spam based on some data:

"Five rounds. 200 bot sessions each. 1,000 in total. Each round was harder to catch than the last."

"For Round 2, we left Puppeteer at its defaults. No stealth plugins. No UA spoofing."

"Both tools failed. And I think it's important to say that out loud."

"If it's true, the tracker quietly stops. No events. No requests. Nothing. " "the tracker quietly exits and sends nothing." "They pad your totals while GA4 quietly undercounts"

Nobody used to write like this, nowadays everyone writes like this. The AI tells are too easy to spot. This immediately lowered my brand perception of Clickport.

mdrzn··on The middle-click is the worst habit in modern computing
Aaaaand another AI-slop article with zero value.

"That is 278 wasted tabs. 278 wasted processes. 278 times I broke my focus for no reason."

mdrzn··on [dead]
Another AI-generated blog post.

"It has run quietly for years" overuse of quietly

"Same traffic, same users, half the money." rule of three

"a room, some cards, a results panel" rule of three

"the system quietly pays out far less" overuse of quietly

"A penalty like this isn’t a support ticket. It’s feedback about your pages, and the fix is on the pages." it's not X, it's Y.

If you need a reminder of AI tropes in writing: https://tropes.fyi/tropes-md

mdrzn··on I Fired Google
And it's another AI article with the usual repetitions-of-three:

"I don't need a four-minute explanation. I don't need context. I don't need a balanced discussion"

"Not a philosophical question. Not a medical question. Not a legal question."

"It was not a carefully considered decision, it was a primal gut reaction." it's not X, it's Y!

"The telephone. The microwave. The Internet."

"Google Home used to be one of my favourite gadgets. Not because it was smart. Because it was useful." it wasn't X, it was Y!

mdrzn··on The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear
When people ask "What are the AI tells that you notice?" the "rule of three" comes to mind immediately:

"Our modem was 14,400 bps. Yes, bits per second. Not megabits. Not gigabits. Not fiber."

"It was not massive. It was not scalable. It was not "cloud native."

"Every business would have a BBS. Every community would have one. Every company would run its own small digital place"

"The Web was the future. Not BBSs. Not CD-ROM encyclopedias. Not isolated digital islands. The Web."

mdrzn··on I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID
"This wasn't some dev environment. This wasn't test data."

It's not X, it's Y. And repetitions of three.

mdrzn··on Applying Brevity and Language Efficiency in Prompt Engineering
"Premium models: GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, Gemini 1.5 Pro"

TFA was written by an AI without even search access, or it would know that all those are OLD deprecated models. AI Slop.

If the author doesn't even bother checking what his AI spit out, why would I read it? Useless article. I'm baffled that this reached the front page.

mdrzn··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
Previously discussed 18 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48306066
mdrzn··on Show HN: Eyeball
So it's a remake of this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367723 not even 24hrs after the original was posted?
mdrzn··on Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act
you won't be able to sell in the EU market anymore
mdrzn··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
"When we are able to source hardware components at a lower cost, these new “limited” servers will have particularly attractive conditions."

Limited used as a "cheaper" instead of pricier service is counterintuitive to me.

"All dedicated servers and cloud plans at all locations are affected by this adjustment. However, web hosting products, managed servers, servers from the Server Auction, IPs, storage products, Load Balancers, Volumes, Snapshots, and Object Storage are not affected."

mdrzn··on Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix
My main issue was the ability to paste images when using ClaudeCode via ssh on a remote machine, so I solved it by having Claude write a quick bridge that fetches the image in your clipboard, rsync it to the server and paste the correct image path in your clipboard: https://github.com/mdrzn/claude-screenshot-uploader
mdrzn··on Show HN: TokenShield – cut your Claude Code bill 40-70%
$20 a month for the cheapest plan "save up to 5M tokens", wouldn't it be better to purchase another Claude $20 account instead? Since you'd get WAY MORE than 5M tokens?
mdrzn··on Show HN: TokenShield – cut your Claude Code bill 40-70%
"Sorry, you have been blocked

You are unable to access curatedmcp.com"

mdrzn··on Cats Lock – keyboard lock for cat people
So just lock the user? And go back to the login screen?

Does it need an app? "Make noises to shoo away the cat" doesn't seem a killer feature, but good luck with this release.

mdrzn··on Show HN: Whisper Large V3 Turbo Stream API
Do not use Show HN for a waitlist.
mdrzn··on I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan
"Buyee isn’t just an option. It’s probably the most consistent way to do it right."

"This isn’t some modern, streamlined soft‑mod. This is peak late‑2000s PSP scene energy."

"The PSP isn’t just nostalgia. It’s still a genuinely great handheld."

Once you start noticing the AI artifacts, it's hard to keep interest in TFA.

mdrzn··on Ten Signs of Fascism. America has all of them
"This isn’t ordinary lobbying or corruption. It’s structural fusion: the same bargain the industrialists made in 1933."

"These paramilitary squads didn’t just protect the movement, they were the movement."

It's not just X, it's definitely Y.

← PreviousPage 2 of 34Next →