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New comment by kgarten in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

kgarten — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:11:19 +0000

I’m frustrated since August with the results from Claude for English text editing … I didn’t look for that. It’s just a fact.

This is not about em dashes …

New comment by kgarten in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

kgarten — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:20:29 +0000

That’s my point of the post … I had the feeling that the English text editing skills of Claude went significantly down in August.

I was frustrated at first not knowing what they are doing.

After I read this post, (seeing they introduced it in August) I think it has to do with the watermarking.

Try it on a paragraph … the connections between sentences feel clunky now.

I will play with it more and see if that’s really the case (the watermarking making the text edits worse).

New comment by kgarten in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

kgarten — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:29:46 +0000

One could also use butterflies to write ;) https://xkcd.com/378/

The problem is, that LLMs worked very well for me to improve my writing. Especially as I'm not a native speaker, it was a great way to improve the legibility of my work.

I want a tool that helps me improve my writing. A tool I can learn from. Not a tool that switches out "bananas" to "airplanes."

I'm was using Claude Opus and now Fabel extensively for editing my texts and I find the recent updates abysmal. Not sure if it's due to the Text Watermark.

Before Claude was great in sharpening the meaning in my writing, it's now close to unusable.

New comment by kgarten in "Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?"

kgarten — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:15:11 +0000

Looks nice. Funny, I also made a dictation app using claude ... yet just for iOS. https://kaikunze.de/aimemo/

New comment by kgarten in "Map of Metal"

kgarten — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:09:11 +0000

Reminded me a bit on the design space of Metal logos: https://renecutura.eu/metalvis/

Prompt-hacking the new p-hacking?

kgarten — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:18:05 +0000

Article URL: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/prompt-hacking-the-new-p-hacking/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47450783

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kgarten in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

kgarten — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:51:19 +0000

I think this coverage feels very similar to the way Google Glass was treated back in the early 2010s ... there’s a grain of legitimate concern, but the article oversells what these glasses actually do and stokes alarm in a way that goes beyond the available facts.

Workers annotating data for AI might see sensitive content captured by smart glasses. But the leap from that to “we see everything” and framing it like some dystopian panopticon mirrors the early Google Glass panic, where the concerns often outran what the device actually could do.

Legitimate concerns shouldn’t be dismissed, but neither should they be inflated to create a new “Glass-forked-into-Big-Brother” narrative unless the evidence genuinely supports that level of risk ...

Abstraction Beats Realism in VR Concert Recreation

kgarten — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:41:41 +0000

Article URL: https://kaikunze.de/post/2026-02-26-abstraction-beats-realism/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224543

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Alpha of a Speech to Text iOS App (Feature Requests Welcome)

kgarten — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:09:54 +0000

As the title says, I have been playing a bit with whisper.cpp and the Apple Speech to Text models and put out a small demo app.

Wondering where to go from here. I was thinking to remove the ads form the free version and add an AI summary to the payed one.

Ideas welcome. Btw, source code is here: https://github.com/kkai/aimemo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47221699

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kgarten in "Show HN: CranKen – A Math Puzzle Game for the Play.date"

kgarten — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:07:21 +0000

btw, source code is here: https://github.com/kkai/CranKen

Show HN: CranKen – A Math Puzzle Game for the Play.date

kgarten — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:38:31 +0000

Was coding a bit with Lua and ended up creating a Kenken like game for my long flights between Japan and Germany. Feedback and feature requests welcome.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199309

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by kgarten in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

kgarten — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:10:14 +0000

Quite a while back, a former student of mine built Nekoze :D

https://nekoze.app Nekoze warns you when you are hunched over.

Years back, we did a couple of whimsical prototypes along those lines (using J!NS MEME, smart glasses): https://youtu.be/LXIY2g-twOA

Placebo Concert: The Placebo Effect for VR Visualization of Physiological Data

kgarten — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:05:21 +0000

Article URL: https://kaikunze.de/post/2026-01-10-placebo-concert/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668347

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kgarten in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

kgarten — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:54:35 +0000

https://kaikunze.de/

Source is here: https://github.com/kkai/web-source

New comment by kgarten in "Scott Adams has died"

kgarten — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:22:02 +0000

I'm also not saying that the parent is AI generated. Just, that the text triggered for me my "Might be AI" alert. It's not only the em dash but the combination of em dash and rules of three (plus a couple of other hints).

New comment by kgarten in "Scott Adams has died"

kgarten — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:42:55 +0000

“His peaks—the biting humor about corporate absurdity, the writing on systems thinking and compounding habits, the clarity about the gap between what organizations say and what they do—unquestionably made me healthier, happier, and wealthier.”

Maybe I’m getting cynical, yet every time I see an mdash and rules of 3, it triggers the feeling of “This sounds like AI” …

Here’s another example:

“ I can avoid the ugliness—the racism, the grievance, the need to be right at any cost.”

New comment by kgarten in "Liberating Bluetooth on the ESP32"

kgarten — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 04:06:41 +0000

Why not link to the official recording ?

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-liberating-bluetooth-on-the-esp3...

New comment by kgarten in "40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity"

kgarten — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:15:50 +0000

wondering why you are downvoted. You are right, though it's kind of inferred that the author means fMRI as the title focuses on brain activity only.

New comment by kgarten in "The Nerd Reich – Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy"

kgarten — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:21:17 +0000

My heart goes out to you.

New comment by kgarten in "DSP 101 Part 1: An Introductory Course in DSP System Design"

kgarten — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:35:36 +0000

thanks!