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New comment by da_grift_shift in "X permanently banned my 15-year-old account for sharing my own open-source lib"

da_grift_shift — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:40:12 +0000

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).

New comment by da_grift_shift in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

da_grift_shift — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:57:16 +0000

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

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

New comment by da_grift_shift in "AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region"

da_grift_shift — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:37:53 +0000

>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.

New comment by da_grift_shift in "Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)"

da_grift_shift — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:10:47 +0000

>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

New comment by da_grift_shift in "Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)"

da_grift_shift — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:27:39 +0000

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

New comment by da_grift_shift in "Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?"

da_grift_shift — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:19:41 +0000

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.

New comment by da_grift_shift in "I think I have LLM burnout"

da_grift_shift — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:58:47 +0000

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

Claude's jargon, metaphors and imaginary composite words are driving me insane

da_grift_shift — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:08:26 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uok58g/claudes_self_invented_technical_jargon_complex/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837457

Points: 8

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New comment by da_grift_shift in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

da_grift_shift — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:29:00 +0000

>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...

New comment by da_grift_shift in "Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work"

da_grift_shift — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:46:00 +0000

Yeah, I'll stick with the oneliner.

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

New comment by da_grift_shift in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

da_grift_shift — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:35:14 +0000

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

New comment by da_grift_shift in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

da_grift_shift — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:27:09 +0000

    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.

New comment by da_grift_shift in "Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not"

da_grift_shift — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:11:52 +0000

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

New comment by da_grift_shift in "Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not"

da_grift_shift — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:49:55 +0000

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

Now you're getting it! :^)

New comment by da_grift_shift in ""Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds"

da_grift_shift — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:21:50 +0000

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?

New comment by da_grift_shift in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

da_grift_shift — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:36:29 +0000

Same thing nowadays :^)

New comment by da_grift_shift in "Pull request limits are cutting down the noise"

da_grift_shift — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:33:03 +0000

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?

New comment by da_grift_shift in "Show HN: peerd – AI agent harness that runs entirely in your browser"

da_grift_shift — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:30:47 +0000

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.

New comment by da_grift_shift in "How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?"

da_grift_shift — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:26:42 +0000

>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

New comment by da_grift_shift in "Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance"

da_grift_shift — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:01:13 +0000

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...