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There's no tell. Some people just have an overactive imagination and are hallucinating AI authorship wherever they go. I think the HN audience is especially susceptible to this giv…

I think we should start calling it "distillation terrorism" just to make it sound even more absurd.

I often see variations on this exact comment on HN lately, even in response to things that are clearly genuine. Sometimes it's just ESL. In my opinion, whenever there is plausible …

Wow, if that is the Mark Dingemanse I think it is, he's an absolute legend in ideophone research. I used a lot of his work for my MA thesis. Always a pleasure to read.

"They suck" might be a bit harsh, but as someone who has used the Surface line of devices since they became good, I agree with your general sentiment. I have similar issues with CO…

Doesn't your laptop have a touchscreen?

I believe JetBrains products like Junie use the neutral term .aiignore for this funtionality.

I fully agree. I'm Swedish and have recently used GPT to help me draft some cover letters in Swedish. Even with all the mandatory personality tweaks and prompting, it always seems …

I mean, it definitely depends on which 'Here' we are talking about. If we're talking about Berlin, sure, I agree with you. But just as America is diverse, so, too, is Europe.

Recently, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the Microsoft Store has a built-in CLI with that exact functionality. You just run `store updates` to check for updates to sto…

Also not a rocket surgeon, but to my understanding, modern satellites already have solar panels and radiators that account for the system's overall energy absorption and dissipatio…

alephnerd, I have to flat out disagree with your grievances [0][1][2][3][4][5]. The more I read, the worse it gets. The fact that some people in a foreign country feel personally p…

I see where this concern comes from. But I think people overinterpret the EU’s legislative agenda by focusing on which companies get fined. Since American firms dominate the global…

The EU envisions a united, prosperous, and sustainable Europe, prioritizing democracy, social justice, and coöperation both internal and global. Despite its clear humanist project,…

No it's not.

Many languages lack an equivalent of "and". What you do is to just juxtapose the two concepts, or perhaps you have structural redundancies in the grammar. Honestly, we could just u…