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sMarsIntruderon Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning

Am I wrong or it doesn’t seem to detect the em-dashes as clear warning signal?

Opus 4.8 - High

> how many days in the week have the letter d in them?

> Two - Sunday and... wait, let me actually check. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. The ones with a "d": Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday all have one. Monday too. So that's Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday - four days.

sMarsIntruderon Show HN: Fungible – A local personal finance app in the terminal

A couple of advices:

- add some screenshots or a demo video to the repo

- I’m not familiar with Plaid, and I’m not probably the only one. A list of main banks/countries probably would make sense? Or just a link that I could not easily find.

sMarsIntruderon Ferrari Luce

It’s the first Ferrari EV: they had to think disruptively and I really appreciate the courage. Love the design IMHO, looking forward to see the street performances.

sMarsIntruderon OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

It’s like what Perplexity did with the PayPal userbase.

Not sure why a bribe would’ve involved: it’s a win-win situation, especially near elections.

sMarsIntruderon France moves to break encrypted messaging

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité.. et Surveillance-té

sMarsIntruderon Let's Buy Spirit Air

I agree, but I started noticing the em-dash usage spike.

sMarsIntruderon Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task

I personally encountered that problem with browser use and I developed a listener on top that gets triggered when there’s a captcha, so it just switch off chrome headless so the user can solve it before proceeding.

sMarsIntruderon John Ternus to become Apple CEO

What are you suggesting?

sMarsIntruderon Tesla's supervised self-driving software gets Dutch okay, first in Europe

This is FUD. Supervised means that the camera watches you in realtime keeping attention.

But I get this type of comments just to go against one person.

sMarsIntruderon Tesla's supervised self-driving software gets Dutch okay, first in Europe

So if you say BS you can just add /s and it’s fine?

sMarsIntruderon Tesla's supervised self-driving software gets Dutch okay, first in Europe

No, it’s not.

This solution went through millions of kilometres of data and tests.

RDW did a really thorough job since we’re talking about Europe: https://www.rdw.nl/en/news/2026/rdw-explanation-of-european-...

Stop. Spreading. FUD.

sMarsIntruderon RDW Approval of Tesla FSD in Netherlands (With Rest of EU to Follow)

The best part is not just that Tesla got provisional validity in the Netherlands, it is that the approval appears to come after a long testing process and with actual public reasoning attached.

Even if EU regulations are painfully strict, getting this far means Tesla FSD has cleared a serious technical and regulatory review.

sMarsIntruderon Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

Upgrading decades old legacy systems? Good luck with that.

sMarsIntruderon Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

I’m impressed by the BTC obsession: this will definitely impact the banking sector as a whole even before. Quantum FUD, here we come.

sMarsIntruderon Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal

I was inches away from investing..

sMarsIntruderon Facebook is cooked

> I know Twitter/X has worse problems with spam bots in the replies, but this is the News Feed!

Probably not using it from ages.

sMarsIntruderon Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

Basically Europe solution to state/companies surveillance is an European managed surveillance, plus a CBDC to get even more into their citizens. Know your enemies, there are solutions out there.

sMarsIntruderon Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

Goodbye Discord. It was good to have you.

sMarsIntruderon Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors

De facto sed non de iure

sMarsIntruderon Self Driving Car Insurance

Still doesn’t change my point: as of today being skeptic because relying on outdated data or historical series is just nonsense. I mean, insurance quotes work in a totally different way.

sMarsIntruderon Self Driving Car Insurance

They don’t bet money on just “I’m quite skeptical because I hate the man”, but on actual data provided by the company.

That’s the difference.

sMarsIntruderon Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study

Wow. This comment makes me wonder if really earth is flat.

sMarsIntruderon Proton spam and the AI consent problem

Whining for visibility: that’s even worse.

sMarsIntruderon Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims (2017)

> In the US, animal-based skin substitutes require levels of scrutiny from the Food and Drug Administration and animal rights groups that can drive up costs, Lee said. Given the substantial supply of donated human skin, tilapia skin is unlikely to arrive at American hospitals anytime soon.

This reminds me of Milton Friedman’s arguments against the FDA.

sMarsIntruderon SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others

> “Until about 2016, we didn’t really know what we were going to do with these detections that we’d accumulated,” Anderson said. “We hadn’t figured out how to do the whole second part of the analysis.”

No comment.

sMarsIntruderon Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts

> What's next, an Internet license?

That’s exactly my concern here. Trying to solve a problem with good intent by proposing solutions that hurt the overall environment.

sMarsIntruderon Are We ... Yet?

https://isdebianreproducibleyet.com/

Apparently, I learned something new today.

sMarsIntruderon AI almost solved my toddler sleep issues

User combined Frigate (AI-powered video surveillance), a custom CNN model, and Babybuddy to automatically track their toddler’s sleep patterns. The model runs inference in ~15ms and achieves 99.8% accuracy detecting whether their toddler is in bed.

sMarsIntruderon My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions

As others here below have noticed, there is no match between actual data and predictions made by the authors.

Which is definitely strange, and we should ask: why?