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New comment by lumpysnake in "Parse, Don't Validate – In a Language That Doesn't Want You To"

lumpysnake — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:17:25 +0000

Then you're totally right. In this case, it's a poor usage of AI because we are able to tell it's slop.

Odds are very high at this point that I've come across a piece of content I enjoyed that was at least partly written by an LLM without having detected it.

New comment by lumpysnake in "Parse, Don't Validate – In a Language That Doesn't Want You To"

lumpysnake — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:38:10 +0000

> if the content is being hosted via AWS vs some non-magacorp

> power being used by the data center is renewable

That doesn't change anything about the content itself. AI writing is a disservice to the reader. Why should I even care to read an article you didn't even care about writing yourself? At this point a 300-character tweet would've achieved the same effect.

New comment by lumpysnake in "Parse, Don't Validate – In a Language That Doesn't Want You To"

lumpysnake — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:13:39 +0000

Because I would've completely avoided the article if I knew that I would be served slop. I was interested in the content, but I was immediately thrown off by the writing style, which closely resembles what I've been getting from Opus 4.8 lately in my dev work. Filler language and useless metaphors everywhere.

> Booleans look tidy until somebody adds a third case and exhaustiveness silently doesn’t kick in. Strings narrow honestly.

Like, nobody truly writes like that. It wouldn't get past any competent editor.

Strings narrow honestly? What does that even mean? This kind of 3-word precision is useless and they appear everywhere in the article. We get the point with in the first sentence, no need to add more.

New comment by lumpysnake in "Parse, Don't Validate – In a Language That Doesn't Want You To"

lumpysnake — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:30:02 +0000

We should make authors disclose how much AI was used to write an article. This reeks of Opus 4.8.

New comment by lumpysnake in "Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope"

lumpysnake — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:23:01 +0000

These are private companies and you better believe they have a say in what they make available on their own platform.

They do not have to host your game that they don’t like and that doesn’t make it censorship.

New comment by lumpysnake in "Learn Dart in 15 Minutes"

lumpysnake — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 20:30:48 +0000

This has got to be the worst learn x in y minutes that I've ever read. Whitespaces, anyone? Every example is compacted and very hard to read. Comments should document each line instead of a huge wall of text before the function.

Naming everything ExampleX is very difficult to see what is being talked about in this particular function.

I'm lucky to know enough about Dart already, because this is a very bad representation of it, IMO.

dotnetConf is live

lumpysnake — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:12:55 +0000

Article URL: http://live.dotnetconf.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7945323

Points: 1

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New comment by lumpysnake in "Ask HN: have you ever seriously learnt something through online courses?"

lumpysnake — Tue, 06 May 2014 12:26:49 +0000

I'm on week 2 of Functional Programming Principles in Scala, at Coursera, and so far it's been a very pleasing experience. Lectures are of very high quality, and assignements are well built. I can't talk for any other MOOC, because that's the first one I've been on, but I would definitely recommend it to anyone.

New comment by lumpysnake in "Ask HN: How can I add 10-15k to my annual income this year?"

lumpysnake — Mon, 05 May 2014 12:29:51 +0000

Nobody said it was gonna be easy.

New comment by lumpysnake in "Ask HN: How do you explain "this" to beginners?"

lumpysnake — Thu, 01 May 2014 16:42:32 +0000

Most of your explanation does not translate really well outside of javascript. Where did you get that the OP is using javascript?

New comment by lumpysnake in "Ads are disgusting."

lumpysnake — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:23:58 +0000

The problem is not with the ads themselves. What you described here screams ADWARE at me. Somehow, your grandpa got an adware installed on his machine (maybe by clicking on every ad that says "boost your computer speed by 10x!"). That's what is causing him such a painful browsing experience.

New comment by lumpysnake in "Ask HN: What is the newest hobby you have picked up? "

lumpysnake — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:10:23 +0000

Speed Cubing

New comment by lumpysnake in "Doge2048"

lumpysnake — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:44:51 +0000

That's the strategy I use all the time but never won a single game (out of 10).

New comment by lumpysnake in "Ask HN: What have you learned in 2014 so far?"

lumpysnake — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 02:00:01 +0000

Amen to the more technical part.

New comment by lumpysnake in "AngularChat"

lumpysnake — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:28:40 +0000

That's good work! However the user experience is not the best. I would rather have the chatrooms stacked on the left, instead of inside a dropdown. That way we can quickly see the available rooms. And I'd like to have a list of users currently in the same room as me.

Also, a personal preference of mine is having the new message text box on the bottom.

Keep it up!

New comment by lumpysnake in "Happy Pi Day"

lumpysnake — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:58:23 +0000

Actually, Pi day is next year on March 14th, 2015. It may also work today if you take into account only the first 2 digits after the decimal point, but it kind of defeats the purpose.

New comment by lumpysnake in "Ask HN: How to disable new Google search styling"

lumpysnake — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:23:59 +0000

> but it's hard to scan and the design looks amateurish

What about Hacker News' design? I guess everybody agrees it's ugly, but it gets the job done. I think your just being over-picky for nothing.

I actually find the new design to be more pleasing to the eye and a lot cleaner. And my search results are still as good as before, so who cares.

New comment by lumpysnake in "I open sourced my startup"

lumpysnake — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:34:04 +0000

Clickable: https://github.com/KitchenPC/core

Squishy Bird

lumpysnake — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:20:06 +0000

Article URL: http://squishybird.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7218327

Points: 1

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New comment by lumpysnake in "How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry"

lumpysnake — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:33:59 +0000

In-app purchases are not the problem, people paying for them are.