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New comment by mkeeter in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

mkeeter — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:54:18 +0000

Fair enough, I accept "the blog post was written by someone from the 1800s" as an alternative hypothesis.

edit: For what it's worth, I also just tested the Gettysburg Address (using the "Bliss Copy" from [1]), and got a "100% Human" score.

[1] https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettys...

New comment by mkeeter in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

mkeeter — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:24:25 +0000

The review is also heavily LLM-inflected, to the point of being distracting.

GPTZero gives it a 100% chance of being AI generated, and I've found that these tools may give false negatives from a well-prompted model, but false positives are rare.

If you are looking to tune your intuition for AI-written text, here's an interesting list of their quirks (ironically provided as a Claude skill for removing those quirks from emitted text):

https://github.com/stephenturner/skill-deslop/blob/main/refe...

New comment by mkeeter in "We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it"

mkeeter — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:10:46 +0000

The "Intermediate Report" [1] lists the authors as "Robert V. and Claude (Anthropic)". Is there any reason to believe this is not AI hallucinations?

[1] https://stateofutopia.com/papers/2/intermediate-report.pdf

New comment by mkeeter in "Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application"

mkeeter — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:54:58 +0000

Congrats!

(We had one back in December; you’re in for a fun ride!)

New comment by mkeeter in "Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application"

mkeeter — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:54:07 +0000

They certainly have ambitions – the most recent changelog claims to add "Full PCB design pipeline: schematic capture, routing, DRC, Gerber export, and signal integrity simulation."

It also seems to have a physics engine, a slicer for 3D printing, an embroidery mode, and a entire ecosystem of math crates (https://tang.toys/).

Whether any of that works – or whether it's pure LLM slop – is less clear. I tried to import a trivial STEP file, and it crashed my browser tab [1]. Every commit is co-authored by Claude.

[1] https://github.com/ecto/vcad/issues/7

New comment by mkeeter in "From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story (2022)"

mkeeter — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:13:50 +0000

Not a typo, but you’re correct about the sample rate - with those settings, the scope was doing interpolation between samples.

New comment by mkeeter in "Postgres Is Your Friend. ORM Is Not"

mkeeter — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:08:44 +0000

More evidence: the user posted three well-formatted multi-sentence comments within 15 seconds.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110801 (13:23:08)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110803 (13:23:15)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110804 (13:23:23)

New comment by mkeeter in "Tell HN: Yet Another Round of Zendesk Spam"

mkeeter — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 01:03:00 +0000

I have received 168 support ticket emails in the past 30 mins, and Gmail has not yet learned to flag them as spam.

This is an absolute clown show.

Edit: whoops, this was incorrect! I had received over 1,000 Zendesk emails, 168 of which made it into my inbox.

New comment by mkeeter in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

mkeeter — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 03:15:29 +0000

Which NRTL did you end up using for certifications? Can you say more about that process?

New comment by mkeeter in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

mkeeter — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:01:47 +0000

oh hi ChatGPT

The giveaway is that LLMs love bulleted lists with a bolded attention-grabbing phrase to start each line. Copy-pasting directly to HN has stripped the bold formatting and bullets from the list, so the attention-grabbing phrase is fused into the next sentence, e.g. “Potential for abuse Attestation enables blacklisting”

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

mkeeter — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:29:19 +0000

https://mattkeeter.com

Lots of projects, ranging from embedded systems to DIY CAD software and GPU algorithms.

New comment by mkeeter in "[dead]"

mkeeter — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 17:22:43 +0000

The publisher describes itself as “Fusion of Researcher and AI: Independent publisher of peer-reviewed research in post-biological epistemics“

Is there any reason to believe this isn’t an AI-assisted crank publication?

Taking steps to end abusive traffic from cloud providers

mkeeter — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:30:38 +0000

Article URL: https://anubis.techaro.lol:443/blog/2025/file-abuse-reports/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45775161

Points: 2

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New comment by mkeeter in "I see a future in jj"

mkeeter — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:28:35 +0000

> jj undo is great but it's a one time thing.

For what it's worth, this changed in v0.33.0:

> jj undo is now sequential: invoking it multiple times in sequence repeatedly undoes actions in the operation log.

(release notes: https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/releases/tag/v0.33.0)

New comment by mkeeter in "Creating a VGA Signal in Hubris"

mkeeter — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:17:18 +0000

(I work at Oxide, though I wasn't around for the initial chip selection process)

It's at least partially a matter of timing: Oxide was picking its initial hardware in roughly 2020, and the RP2040 wasn't released until 2021.

A handful of people have done ports, e.g. https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris/pull/2210, but I expect to stick with STM32s for the foreseeable future – we've got a lot to do, and they're working well enough!