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New comment by nnevatie in "What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?"

nnevatie — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:32:36 +0000

Agreed, it is abolutely an issue. It is quite difficult to find an optimal solution to some problem when every considered new idea is ”definitely the right shape”.

New comment by nnevatie in "Targeted marine cloud brightening weakens subsequent El Niño"

nnevatie — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:55:56 +0000

It will start with this and end with Snowpiercer.

New comment by nnevatie in "I want extern "fil-C""

nnevatie — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:51:13 +0000

> But the result would give us exactly the right incentives.

Say what you say, but there's plenty in that article looking like it came out of an LLM. This could of course be my own paranoia, since there's a lot of slop coming out right now.

New comment by nnevatie in "I want extern "fil-C""

nnevatie — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:44:44 +0000

Reading this my slop-sense is tingling.

New comment by nnevatie in "Spaghettifying DRAM"

nnevatie — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:06:05 +0000

This is quite excellent.

New comment by nnevatie in "Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview"

nnevatie — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:41:29 +0000

Was the prompt "fuck up my system, please." or how did you manage this? I've used Codex for ages without any of these kinds of issues.

New comment by nnevatie in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

nnevatie — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:08:54 +0000

Ahhaha. JBoss, the glorified web-app server that booted for tens of minutes. It was the peak of Java-based over-engineering.

New comment by nnevatie in "Taste Is All That's Left"

nnevatie — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:50:20 +0000

Yep, it is slop. I got 2-3 paragraphs in and closed the tab, as too many LLMisms raised their ugly heads.

New comment by nnevatie in "We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars"

nnevatie — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:09:45 +0000

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

New comment by nnevatie in "Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days"

nnevatie — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:22:58 +0000

This is the right shape!

New comment by nnevatie in "Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines"

nnevatie — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:52:26 +0000

I would rather read faulty English, succinct sentences and getting to the point, than the generic filler LLMs produce.

New comment by nnevatie in "Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines"

nnevatie — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:15:01 +0000

Yes, it’s basically business-as-usual but on speed.

New comment by nnevatie in "Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room"

nnevatie — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:44:37 +0000

Setting render scale to 1 definitely helped - the aliasing from the lines is gone.

The rest of the circular aliasing could likely be fixed by requesting MSAA, so e.g.:

renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({ alpha: true, antialias: true, powerPreference: 'high-performance', })

New comment by nnevatie in "Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines"

nnevatie — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:21:25 +0000

The post is full of signs. Here's only a couple of examples:

> The method, the measurements, and what it costs us.

> That is the general shape of these wins.

> Parity is the gate, speed is the follow-up

I could go on and on, but you probably get the point. If you don't find anything funny with the above, you might have not been enough-exposed to slop.

New comment by nnevatie in "Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines"

nnevatie — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:13:13 +0000

Came here to say the same. Really tiring to read these slop-infested posts, where everything has the “right shape”.

New comment by nnevatie in "Software for One"

nnevatie — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:24:22 +0000

> maintaining them

In the agentic era, there is no need for maintenance - each artifact is immutable and just-in-time. In case you need a new version, spin up a new artifact.

I’m only half-joking.

New comment by nnevatie in "SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library"

nnevatie — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:37:57 +0000

The naming of the library is pretty confusing, considering SDL_gpu is an official part of SDL3.

New comment by nnevatie in "Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room"

nnevatie — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:47:17 +0000

This is on Chrome/Win11:

https://snipboard.io/W8SXYm.jpg

New comment by nnevatie in "Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes"

nnevatie — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:07:47 +0000

> those people want to win an argument

Indeed - X, specifically, is infested with "Grok is this true?" -type discourse.

New comment by nnevatie in "Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room"

nnevatie — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:32:01 +0000

> https://blackhole.plav.in/

The lines in the demo look upscaled and aliased for some reason.