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Re: Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

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Post by antonvs »

retsibsi wrote: post #55
moWerk wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair suspicion in 2026 — but we actually started drafting that announcement in early 2023 before first committing it here: https://github.com/jrtberlin/aos2.0-post . As a non native speaker i sure ran my commits through grammar polishing multiple times over the years. And i am genuinely curious now what to avoid to not sound like an LLM if you could dig out one or two examples.

I wonder if they meant this HN post (the OP), rather than https://asteroidos.org/news/2-0-release/ ? The latter doesn't seem LLM-written to me, but the HN post does.

Correct.

Re: Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

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Post by antonvs »

bjackman wrote: post #41
moWerk wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair suspicion in 2026 — but we actually started drafting that announcement in early 2023 before first committing it here: https://github.com/jrtberlin/aos2.0-post . As a non native speaker i sure ran my commits through grammar polishing multiple times over the years. And i am genuinely curious now what to avoid to not sound like an LLM if you could dig out one or two examples.

FWIW as someone who sadly has about 10% of his brain constantly engaged in AI detection when I read HN, absolutely nothing about the announcement struck me as feeling AI generated. (I feel guilty for pointing it out but I guess it's actually a compliment in this context: I even saw a beautifully reassuring mis-conjugated verb elsewhere on the website. I wonder if LLMs will have to start injecting these errors to give…

Read the text of the HN post. If it’s not AI slop, then it’s a canonical example of the training data that produces the slop.

Re: Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

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Post by antonvs »

Aachen wrote: post #52
moWerk wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair suspicion in 2026 — but we actually started drafting that announcement in early 2023 before first committing it here: https://github.com/jrtberlin/aos2.0-post . As a non native speaker i sure ran my commits through grammar polishing multiple times over the years. And i am genuinely curious now what to avoid to not sound like an LLM if you could dig out one or two examples.

I hadn't opened the article yet and was just browsing comments over my cereal when I saw this and thought "ugh, amother one?" and went to check for myself I didn't get an LLM vibe at all. Looking for it specifically, the bullet point about UI improvements is a candidate; the sentence following "mediawiki" could be an autocompletion; maybe the first sentence of the download section... but they're also all plausibly ju…

I was referring to the text of the HN post. Go read it.

Re: Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

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Post by bmurphy1976 »

This is great! I'm going to install it immediately. I have a Fossil 6. It's in my opinion the best looking smartwatch yet released however the WatchOS performance and functionality is absolutely dreadful. I'm excited to bring this watch back from the dead!

Re: Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

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Post by antonvs »

prmoustache wrote: post #40
antonvs wrote: post #31

fyi the announcement is very obviously ai-written. It’s off-putting.

What is off-putting ia this kind of comments everywhere you go. This is the new "this has clearly been photoshoped" meme we used to see on every forum thread 2 decades ago and it is annoying as hell.

Tough for you, because anyone with any kind of standards is likely to continue objecting to lazy, mediocre, automated posts whenever they happen.

Re: Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

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Post by coffeeenjoyer »

moWerk wrote: post #51
coffeeenjoyer wrote: post #42

Wow, this looks pretty cool! It seems you have quite a few features going... The main reason I haven't gotten a smartwatch yet is because of privacy concerns. But now seems like a good time to experiment with one of the watches you support. I also still dream of one day daily driving a Linux smartphone, but that feels a bit more unrealistic to me, as I have more expectations from a phone, like being able to use bank…

QML runs interpreted at runtime and Qt is very close to native C++, so both are actually quite lean and fast on these devices — the overhead is surprisingly small compared to full Android Wear, and we've tuned it heavily over the years to keep battery and UI responsiveness solid. If you see devices lagging, like the sawfish (Huawei Watch 2), its usually due to updating the android base to a newer one as the manufactu…

Thanks for clarifying and wish you all the best with the project! I'll see what watch I can get my hands on.

Re: Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

#69

Post by Aachen »

antonvs wrote: post #63
Aachen wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hadn't opened the article yet and was just browsing comments over my cereal when I saw this and thought "ugh, amother one?" and went to check for myself I didn't get an LLM vibe at all. Looking for it specifically, the bullet point about UI improvements is a candidate; the sentence following "mediawiki" could be an autocompletion; maybe the first sentence of the download section... but they're also all plausibly ju…

I was referring to the text of the HN post. Go read it.

Aye-aye o7 ...

I saw that one already and didn't suspect slop there either

Re: Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

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Post by moWerk »

antonvs wrote: post #61
retsibsi wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if they meant this HN post (the OP), rather than https://asteroidos.org/news/2-0-release/ ? The latter doesn't seem LLM-written to me, but the HN post does.

Correct.

Full disclosure, i spent ~3 hours crafting this post to hit the tone i wanted to convey and am kind of proud of the wrist-size linux banger i came up with. I am usually not good with writing since it takes me ages and i might be a bit over sensitive right now. All i wanted was to spare you all the rocky grammar as a cherry on top. To now find that the polished version triggers your "its (completely?) Ai written" sensor. Lesson learned i guess.
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