Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

Post by customguy » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 5:30 AM UTC

Labo333 wrote: post #156

black_rabbit_ wrote: post #144

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You did a fantastic job; very to-the-point with effective visualisations. Kudos! One very minor note: if your scroll device reports pixel-perfect deltas rather than discrete scroll-wheel ticks (e.g. logitech mx master, laptop touchpad, etc), the behaviour in the word search box is a bit weird. Arrow keys work fine though.

Thank you! I did test it with my mac touchpad without issue. Maybe the problem is that I wanted to make discrete scroll-wheel ticks work. I just tried a fix by normalising deltaMode to pixels. If you could just paste this in your console, I would have a better idea: document.querySelector('.wall').addEventListener('wheel', e => console.log(e.deltaMode, e.deltaY.toFixed(2), e.defaultPrevented ? 'PAGE' : 'native'), tru…

Post by Banditoz » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 5:40 AM UTC

stackghost wrote: post #182

chmod775 wrote: post #153

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"seam" is a cop-out term for when someone (usually AI) lacks the imagination to come up with something more descriptive. It's like saying "middle thing". Just name it by what it does, and if you can't, remove it because it's not doing anything. "load-bearing" on the other hand is just a weird way to say "required" or "prerequisite" without drawing any attention to the fact that one cannot articulate what something is…

"Seam" has been a thing since before the AI craze. Wasn't it the NSA director who once said something like "we make our living at the seams"?

Post by Labo333 » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 5:56 AM UTC

kuboble wrote: post #196

Is it relative frequency of those words or absolute number per PR? Would there be the same tendency of we looked simply at the number of words in a commit/pr? In my case my commit messages are on average 10x shorter than Claude's.

Post by 383838488484 » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 6:05 AM UTC

ben30 wrote: post #204

Interesting response from Claude, when I attempted to reduce the "load-bearing" in its responses: I added to my global prompt: - Orwell's first rule: never use a metaphor you're used to seeing in print. "Load-bearing", "the crux", "first-class citizen" signal insight instead of showing it. Name the specific mechanism when I asked what it thought of the change, its reply was: The Orwell bullet fights my own system pro…

Post by Labo333 » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 6:09 AM UTC

c7b wrote: post #90

Labo333 wrote: post #11

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Author here :) Thank you for the compliment! I did spend a lot of time designing a nice experience on both desktop and mobile. Even the scrollbar to select words was non trivial as I wanted the words to be of different size, yet avoid flickering when scrolling!

Congratulations! I was going to comment on the scroll field in particular when I saw this. I didn't even realize you had to hand-craft the component, but it's such a nice UI idea in general, the way the scrolling works and how the content above changes.