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New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Have a fucking website"

GreenWatermelon — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:29:54 +0000

It could be "Please, I beg of you, have a website" or "For the love of God, have a website" or even "AAAHHHHH JUST HAVE A WEBSITE ALREADY"

Many ways exist to cover all ranges of emotions without resorting to a purely cosmetic "fuck"

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Have a fucking website"

GreenWatermelon — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:03:04 +0000

And in our day jobs we earn money for providing negative value to society. Least we can do is give a little something to someone everynow and then.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Have a fucking website"

GreenWatermelon — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:01:41 +0000

That, and giving something nice to your local community ----- the place where you belong.

Like, if I have a skill, why shouldn't I use that skill in service of those around me? Especially when it's barely an inconvenience for me.

The western culture of individualism runs contrary to our biology.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

GreenWatermelon — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:52:36 +0000

of course, we shouldn't forget that they manifacture the entire world's shit, and have a larger population than US and EU combined. And despite manufacturing all shit, they still emit less per Capita than US and EU.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

GreenWatermelon — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:55:29 +0000

Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/810/

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

GreenWatermelon — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:47:36 +0000

Pure AI slope os often extremely obvious, while for good AI writing that's indistinguishable from thoughtful human writing I'd say "Mission fucking accomplished"[0]

[0] https://xkcd.com/810/

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

GreenWatermelon — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:44:47 +0000

Poe's law strikes.

Parent's last paragraph was definitely an ironic portray of LLM writing! Notice the double-dash emdash.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

GreenWatermelon — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:42:27 +0000

As someone put ot before, humans use these little constructions maybe once or twice per article, not every single fucking paragraph.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

GreenWatermelon — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:32:12 +0000

There is also significant meaning encoded in the parent's choice of words that implies more than what's written. "Formulate", "intend", and "receive" imply the parent comes from a technical or academic background, and this is how they express their thoughts. Parent has "intentions", not mere "wants". To the parent, the act of weaving together a comment for communication constitutes "Formulating thought", which is different from just "find wording"

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

GreenWatermelon — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:25:02 +0000

> my ears, "to help me find wording that conveys my thoughts the way I want them to be understood by the reader" conveys the same meaning as "to search for a way to formulate my thoughts like I intend them to be received by the reader"

I disagree with your disagreement and subjective take. The LLM changed the meaning in a significant but not very obvious way.

Compare "I use a hammer to drive nails" to "I use a hammer to help me drive nails"

In the former the writer implies tool use, in the latter the LLM turned that into some sort of assistant relationship. The former is normal, the latter is cringe (to my ears)

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

GreenWatermelon — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:02:20 +0000

And I much prefer "unpolished due to resource constraints" to the outright malice that is windows.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

GreenWatermelon — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:57:35 +0000

For just notepad you have kwrite.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

GreenWatermelon — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 04:42:32 +0000

Why the sad smily? I'm pretty happy Chinese tech is stepping up to break the current memory cartel.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

GreenWatermelon — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 04:19:31 +0000

Yeah, and for good reason. The invitation of the light bulb meant factory owners could force workers into 16 hours shifts. The main beneficiaries of new tech were always the capital owners. Workers had to literally fight and die for our 8-hour workdays and 5-days workweek.

This is still going on today: the massive gains from automation are being hoarded by the wealthy capital owners, while workers struggle to make ends meet.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

GreenWatermelon — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:08:43 +0000

Hey, dont't insult me! I finally got my downvote privilege after 6 years and I'm NOT afraid of using it!

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

GreenWatermelon — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:59:51 +0000

I mean, it just wasn't actually that useful, honestly.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

GreenWatermelon — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:02:35 +0000

Foreign state-actors love to sow discontent in enemy territories. It doesn't matter what they say to rile up the population and cause instability -- they'll just do it.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer"

GreenWatermelon — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:21:46 +0000

This garbage actually got over 900 upvotes. Crazy.

I already suspected it was AI written based in the super-cringe title, and a cursory look at the content confirmed my suspicion. Cookie-cutter basic ai writing as it gets.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

GreenWatermelon — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:08:26 +0000

The blogpost is most certainly AI-written.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

GreenWatermelon — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:36:48 +0000

The first post this guy has written in years and it's LLM/AI Written.

> The AI rip-off was not just ugly. It was careless, blatantly amateuristic, and lacking any ambition, to put it gently. Microsoft unworthy. The carefully crafted visual language and layout of the original, the branch colors, the lane design, the dot and bubble alignment that made the original so readable—all of it had been muddled into a laughable form. Proper AI slop.

Here we see "not just x" pattern combined with 3-items list. The closing short quip, and an emdash despite the author never having used them in any of his older posts, even the one from 2021. I don't know of he told an LLM to generate a post for the irony effect, or if he just couldn't be bothered to write.

In his (or his LMM's) own words:

> obviously AI-slop-y enough

Proper AI slop.