Hacker News: calmoo

New comment by calmoo in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

calmoo — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:02:16 +0000

Ironically the author isn't immune from publishing slop themselves. https://john.hartnup.uk/backpressure/

New comment by calmoo in "GPT-6 Astra"

calmoo — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:27:53 +0000

Gary is not a voice worth listening to. A narcissist, fraud and has terrible epistemics.

New comment by calmoo in "GPU World"

calmoo — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:39:31 +0000

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.

New comment by calmoo in "GPU World"

calmoo — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:39:27 +0000

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!

New comment by calmoo in "GPU World"

calmoo — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:07:22 +0000

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.

New comment by calmoo in "GPU World"

calmoo — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:19:00 +0000

Please share examples

New comment by calmoo in "GPU World"

calmoo — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:18:38 +0000

I’ve never actually seen someone give an example of what they say pangram get wrong, so please go ahead and share.

New comment by calmoo in "GPU World"

calmoo — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:41:34 +0000

Pangram is very accurate

New comment by calmoo in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

calmoo — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:36:03 +0000

Will this likely fix stability issues in the Bun Workers API? https://bun.com/docs/runtime/workers

New comment by calmoo in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

calmoo — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:47:31 +0000

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!

New comment by calmoo in "Idempotency is easy until the second request is different"

calmoo — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:46:28 +0000

I would usually agree, but I think we should be obligated to call out slop when we see it.

New comment by calmoo in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

calmoo — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:31:05 +0000

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.

New comment by calmoo in "Idempotency is easy until the second request is different"

calmoo — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:29:27 +0000

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.

New comment by calmoo in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

calmoo — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:51:53 +0000

Is GC useful for a static type checker? Or did they make a new runtime?

New comment by calmoo in "Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?"

calmoo — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:09:02 +0000

Specifically with YAML, Go templating requires some special operators to get anything useful done and it ends up being an unreadable mess.

New comment by calmoo in "Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?"

calmoo — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:27:30 +0000

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!

New comment by calmoo in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

calmoo — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:06:29 +0000

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.

New comment by calmoo in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

calmoo — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:05:29 +0000

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.

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

calmoo — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:24:34 +0000

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.

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

calmoo — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:11:44 +0000

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.