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New comment by sevg in "Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people"

sevg — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:36:48 +0000

I also found it cool/fun and seems many others did too! But this thread isn’t about that.

LLM-driven PoC is common and normal these days (and I do it too). But praising the copy here is like praising stock photos.

New comment by sevg in "Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people"

sevg — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:03:51 +0000

> Less is more.

Yes, we should all just throw LLM-generated copy out there with minimal effort. Then receive your praise for the effort and care put in XD

The fact you’re still trying to defend an indefensible position suggests you must be trolling. Or at least, I _hope_ you’re trolling ;)

New comment by sevg in "Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people"

sevg — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:41:25 +0000

> If you think (or care)

I don’t think anybody really cares, the reaction is because you praised some copy that was obviously written by an LLM and either not edited or barely edited.

New comment by sevg in "Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people"

sevg — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:10:15 +0000

Yeah, no. Not enough to make the page not look and sound like straight from an LLM.

New comment by sevg in "Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people"

sevg — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:13:53 +0000

> Your site copy is great to the last drop.

It is? It’s just the usual LLM.

New comment by sevg in "[dead]"

sevg — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:58:23 +0000

Best we can do is flag such articles, but HN seems to upvote them anyway so I seem to be in the minority.

New comment by sevg in "Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor"

sevg — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:38:39 +0000

You know I said colons right? Not semi colons :)

New comment by sevg in "Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor"

sevg — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:29:46 +0000

Yeah the (annoyingly) excessive use of colons feels like recent Claude models to me.

Looks like author posted this themselves earlier, and even used Claude for the HN comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48958457

New comment by sevg in "Waldi: A quiet place to write, and to be read"

sevg — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:54:10 +0000

Tone deaf to have an (excessively verbose) LLM-generated readme for a blog product. Apparently writing a readme is too much to ask even for avid bloggers!

New comment by sevg in "We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput"

sevg — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:11:00 +0000

Fun (semi-related) fact, ClickHouse was originally developed by Yandex :)

New comment by sevg in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

sevg — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:03:45 +0000

> That's too much effort to decipher a HN post.

It would have been less effort than it took you to write this comment. Perhaps next time that you can’t be bothered, just ignore the comment and move on to another thread that meets your required spoonfeeding levels.

New comment by sevg in "Leaking YouTube creators' private videos"

sevg — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:34:14 +0000

Interesting choice of word; I wasn’t whinging, just trying to explain to the other commenter something useful. Flagging gives zero detail or nuance. Which presumably is why you replied instead of flagging my comment ;)

New comment by sevg in "Leaking YouTube creators' private videos"

sevg — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:52:33 +0000

If you allowlist javascript then yes your annoyance is tangential, and no it is not interesting for us to read you complain about. Hence why the HN guideline (that was quoted above) exists.

(I also allowlist javascript. Regardless of your philosophical standpoint, many websites do break. If you don’t want “smacks me in the face multiple times a day” then stop allowlisting javascript.)

New comment by sevg in "Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019)"

sevg — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:55:47 +0000

> Nowadays most of my processing happens on the GPU, so htop/top better evolve or become mostly irrelevant

If you’re a 3D rendering designer, an ML engineer or a crypto bro, then sure.

Here are the common workloads (for the average SWE on HN) that use CPU/RAM:

  - compilation/builds
  - language servers and IDEs
  - test suites
  - local containers
  - local databases
  - node tooling
  - browsers
  - data processing
  - compression and encryption
  - searching/indexing

Ok sure, top/htop is totally irrelevant now /s

New comment by sevg in "International chess federation sanctions Kramnik"

sevg — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 04:34:45 +0000

I had an emotionally abusive partner. But they didn’t force me to become depressed and anxious. They didn’t force me to have to medicate. So yeah it really was just completely my fault.

New comment by sevg in "Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself"

sevg — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:27:02 +0000

The name reminds me of Woomba, the hilarious SNL parody of Roomba back when it was initially going mainstream: https://youtu.be/gqesEYUXr78

New comment by sevg in "Knoppix"

sevg — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:51:12 +0000

I remember also hosing the bootloader somehow on my first try of Linux, luckily my personal desktop so no collatoral damage!

After that I always had a CD wallet thing with copies of sysresccd and supergrubdisk and others (including I think an old knoppix cd from a linux magazine).

New comment by sevg in "Choosing a Public DNS Resolver"

sevg — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:43:42 +0000

Happy NextDNS user. Lots of configurability, including which filterlists to enable, configurable logging etc.

Plus it’s reliable and fast from basically anywhere (which is harder to achieve if I ran my own resolvers in the cloud, and anyway I don’t want to have to maintain that).

New comment by sevg in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

sevg — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:40:49 +0000

He says that Bellard is a better overall programmer, and for some reason you take this as evidence of a lack of humility?

New comment by sevg in "Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites"

sevg — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:32:45 +0000

Your stance seems to be that interacting with any Russian means supporting genocide, regardless of if they support Putin. Which is so absurd as to be likely ragebait. So yes, it’s a quality issue :)

And if you’re discriminating against all Russians based on their government, even though not all Russians support Putin, then that is unfortunately just racism.