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NASA spacecraft discovers a new crater on the moon

dwringer — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:11:23 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/moon-lunar-crater-space-nasa-80eea242ad275fda1f7a88587cdccd2f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49730797

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New comment by dwringer in "Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue"

dwringer — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:48:39 +0000

I only made it through the first round of prompt selection; both options for the second step were equally pointless and not at all prompts I would ever expect to result in a constructive outcome. In my experience, telling the model it screwed up without specifically addressing, unambiguously, how to fix it, only leads to more suffering. If this page illustrates nothing else, I think it shows the immense downside of trying to use simple one or two sentence prompts.

EDIT: Actually, I used to use Google's AI Studio a lot and fork it after every successful prompt interaction. When I'd encounter a problematic issue like this, I'd revert to the previous fork and try a different prompt until I could get the desired outcome, thus mitigating the need to "argue" with the LLM. Unfortunately the ability to cleanly fork and revert everything including the LLM context was removed some months ago, and I've yet to discover a workflow with any tool that works as well for me.

New comment by dwringer in "Audacity 4.0"

dwringer — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:18:56 +0000

At least with Reaper, if you cut an audio clip it will, by default, automatically apply small adjustable fade in/out envelopes to the ends so you specifically don't have to manually do it.

New comment by dwringer in "Backtrack-Free Cursive"

dwringer — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:13:04 +0000

Yes; I learned it that way as well but I was never able to write them smoothly or legibly. I consciously practiced cursive in adulthood and only then discovered the mirrored-c technique, which always looks right and flows far better. There are a lot of problems IMHO with the D'Nealian method that US pupils were prescribed, likely responsible for the huge backlash against cursive in general.

New comment by dwringer in "Ear Training Practice"

dwringer — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:53:22 +0000

I figured the same, but I did not encounter such exercises, and regardless having the ability to send sysex to my MIDI devices is not required for such a thing.

New comment by dwringer in "Ear Training Practice"

dwringer — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:30:47 +0000

This site insisted on having write access to my connected MIDI devices, which is a bit concerning as it's not required for what the site actually does.

New comment by dwringer in "AI slop is killing online communities"

dwringer — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:19:50 +0000

This is rather moving the goalposts from "plausibly human comment" to "meaningful literature", I think

New comment by dwringer in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

dwringer — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:28:38 +0000

I've always kind of assumed in the industry when it comes to top 40 music this kind of thing has been in heavy use at big labels since at least the dawn of the millenium when Pro Tools also took off, it's just not been nearly as obvious.

New comment by dwringer in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

dwringer — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:32:30 +0000

The other replies have explained what's jumping out but I'd agree that without the other surrounding sentences of the article's introduction I'd be inclined to think that quoted sentence by itself might be human. The full text, however, doubles down on the AI-smelling constructions and IMHO almost certainly indicates some AI provenance.

New comment by dwringer in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

dwringer — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:01:39 +0000

I believe Poe's law makes it basically inescapable and HN is no exception to it

New comment by dwringer in "My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary"

dwringer — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:40:09 +0000

People have been talking about the book on here since it came out; I see no reason to believe people aren't genuinely interested in it. I loved it, personally.

New comment by dwringer in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

dwringer — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:36:25 +0000

In my experience, the Epic downloader would frequently lead to degraded performance and/or system instability when I'd leave it running; I've never noticed such problems at all with the Steam client.

New comment by dwringer in "Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids"

dwringer — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:56:11 +0000

I accidentally clicked through the explanatory text after the first slide (I was still clicking the pump and didn't realize one more click was going to skip through); I have not been able to get the applet to rewind back to the beginning.

New comment by dwringer in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

dwringer — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:46:10 +0000

The scare quotes around words that don't warrant it, or are unnecessarily idiosyncratic, are something I get pretty often in response text from Gemini.

New comment by dwringer in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

dwringer — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:02:29 +0000

I'm really surprised that didn't jump out at more people; I had to get halfway through the comments to the 27th mention of "Department of War" to find the first comment pointing out that using the name is itself a capitulation.

New comment by dwringer in "Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware"

dwringer — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:50:14 +0000

For me there seems to be a listing of configurable settings or something but it only pops up for a single frame after I right-click-drag a component - this seems like a broken mouse interaction.

New comment by dwringer in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

dwringer — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:15:20 +0000

I strongly suspect there's a major component of this type of experience being that people develop a way of talking to a particular LLM that's very efficient and works well for them with it, but is in many respects non-transferable to rival models. For instance, in my experience, OpenAI models are remarkably worse than Google models in basically any criterion I could imagine; however, I've spent most of my time using the Google ones and it's only during this time that the differences became apparent and, over time, much more pronounced. I would not be surprised at all to learn that people who chose to primarily use Anthropic or OpenAI models during that time had an exactly analogous experience that convinced them their model was the best.

New comment by dwringer in "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it"

dwringer — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:48:42 +0000

While this is certainly very true, I find coding through an LLM to require far less effort dedicated to this cognitive switching than does writing in some programming language, primarily because I no longer have to load the mental context for converting my high level human instructions to code that a programming environment actually supports. The mental context seems more lightweight and closer to the way I think about the problem when I'm not sitting at the computer actively working on it. If an idea comes to me while I'm away from the computer I can momentarily sit down, type in whatever I just thought of, and get going almost immediately. I think it also saves a huge amount of cognitive load and stress (for me) involved with switching around between different programs and languages, an unfortunate fact of life when dealing with legacy systems.

New comment by dwringer in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

dwringer — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:49:22 +0000

I just kept scrolling, hoping it would learn from how long I paused over content to read it the way FB's seems to, but it seems you're right, in this case "likes" are required.

New comment by dwringer in "Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?"

dwringer — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:38:37 +0000

It's really a stretch for the article to suggest their gear might not have supported fractional bpm. MIDI itself has always supported it and analog sequencers before that support it even easier. Not to mention external clock sync has been a thing for decades.