How long before someone ports DOOM into a favicon? ^_^
(For the technical gurus here, would that even be possible?)
I Stored a Website in a Favicon
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Re: I Stored a Website in a Favicon
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
for the first time in a while on HN, i disagree with the characterisation as AI-generated. at most it was drafted with an LLM, but the final output is pretty human to me. they used the wrong it’s/its, made But. its own one-word sentence, didn’t capitalise HTML, and used “okayy” in parenthesis. all of this isn’t to criticise the writer - i enjoyed it more seeing these little imperfections that make up a blog post
Looks largely AI-written, with some human edits: https://www.pangram.com/history/9afe7542-1085-4264-9691-2172... FWIW -- I'm not as repulsed by it as the parent comment. But I do want to substantiate that it _is_ heavily LLM-written. (If you're unfamiliar, Pangram has garnered a reputation as the leading LLM-detector, with a minimal rate of false positives; IME this has come with the tradeoff of being easy to manipul…
People do be having too much time...
Is the navigation of the site also AI generated? This doesn't make any sense and proves why these AI detectors don't work
Re: I Stored a Website in a Favicon
#53How long before someone ports DOOM into a favicon? ^_^ (For the technical gurus here, would that even be possible?)
You can already play it in a favicon [0].
But as favicons can be svgs, and let you store foreign objects... You could store the whole thing in the favicon, but might also need a line of JS to extract it.
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#54I found the agressively staccato, clearly LLM-generated content extremely difficult to read.
Yeah, but it's kinda weird. The typical LLM headers and bullet points are there, but it's like someone took an axe to the rest of the spew. I too would rather read someone's original bad writing than their bad editing of AI writing, but it's kinda interesting how this all shakes out.
Might stop using bullet points for not being flagged as AI lol
"Very small" -> yeah, this header is mostly AI generated. No hate against the author but this doesn't make any sense as header
Re: I Stored a Website in a Favicon
#55Instead of going via pixels, why not use a SVG favicon and directly store markup inside it and extract it? Use this favicon.svg: hello HN! use this in your to use a svg favicon: finally, use this in your to extract it and add it to your document body: fetch(favicon.href).then(r => r.text()).then(t => document.body.innerHTML += t.match(/ /)[0]);
Just because it's my windmill to tilt at: `[\s\S]` can be written shorter and more precisely as `[^]`.
Re: I Stored a Website in a Favicon
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't seem to be LLM, but reads like one. The author is German, maybe it's a language expertise thing, maybe he likes the LLM style (unrelated to his nationality). But yeah, sentences that only have 3-4 word each feel like 3rd grade writing; I couldn't read it.
Hey, I've always written like this. In school I couldn't stand subordinate clauses and long sentences because I'd lose my train of thought. But yea, I've noticed that people often find it hard to read so I'm going to work on that
You're good fr. People on here who try to make their day about being AI detectives. You're trying to work on it and that's what matters
Re: I Stored a Website in a Favicon
#57Hmm this is cool but what are the practical use cases?
It didn’t load first time round on my browser (Brave) without disabling its prevent tracking feature…
Re: I Stored a Website in a Favicon
#58Oh, I am so aligned with this mentality:
A monitor is storage.
A keyboard is storage.
Best thing is, nobody really knows if their chicken casserole recipe isn't just a handle to a carefully constructed GUID pointing across to .. lets say, for humor .. a thousand different forum postings ...
I do have to wonder if the author is familiar with PoC||GTFO, for this is certainly a technique one will find deep within the depths of the Alchemist Owls' holy tomes...
Re: I Stored a Website in a Favicon
#59Cool! Here is a GH repo demonstrating unbounded favicons I made 11 years ago - it crashes some browsers - wanna guess how long it took each one to fix it :D https://github.com/benjamingr/favicon-bug
Re: I Stored a Website in a Favicon
#60Instead of going via pixels, why not use a SVG favicon and directly store markup inside it and extract it? Use this favicon.svg: hello HN! use this in your to use a svg favicon: finally, use this in your to extract it and add it to your document body: fetch(favicon.href).then(r => r.text()).then(t => document.body.innerHTML += t.match(/ /)[0]);
Just because it's my windmill to tilt at: `[\s\S]` can be written shorter and more precisely as `[^]`.
[\s\S] vs. [^]
A quixotic windmill tilt if ever I saw one.