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Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by vesterde » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 10:56 PM UTC

bonsai_spool wrote: post #20

Very cool site! It's got some Claude-isms but they're not overwhelming which leads me to wonder: how did the author get the overall aesthetic to be so un-Claude-like?

Please point out the claudeisms, I want to clear them all.

V1 looked like complete Opus slop, but since I make many little sites all the time I can get it to undo a lot of them, one at a time. I just explicitly tell it the aesthetic to avoid per-element (like the famous left border), and eventually it looks okish.

Edit: Ah and for text, Standard Technical English is a good instruction to give it, but I also told it to be dry and technical, and no embelish or do storytelling. And some manual editing out of cringe stuff still after that.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by echelon » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 11:04 PM UTC

bonsai_spool wrote: post #20

Very cool site! It's got some Claude-isms but they're not overwhelming which leads me to wonder: how did the author get the overall aesthetic to be so un-Claude-like?

People downvote me when I say we're back in the "Geocities era" / "indie web" of the 90's and 00's, but LLMs have enabled us to build cool side projects to completion and give them love.

This is 100% a good thing.

I love this website. It's fantastic. I don't care if it's AI. The world is better for it existing.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by BLKNSLVR » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 11:06 PM UTC

NDlurker wrote: post #18

SA9G wrote: post #15

They left out "autoheadslap", the sharp pain you get whenever anyone mentions Nvidia and you smack your forehead as you remember cancelling your massive buy order back when it was $110 and had not split yet!! It is often accompanied by uncontrolled twitching and repeatedly saying "fuuuuuuuuu" as you bite your tongue. Yes, a rare but real human affliction.

I remember choosing to not buy NVIDIA stock because Ethereum moved to proof of stake. Oops.

I remember waiting for that to buy a GPU.

Still waiting...

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 11:19 PM UTC

echelon wrote: post #22

bonsai_spool wrote: post #20

Very cool site! It's got some Claude-isms but they're not overwhelming which leads me to wonder: how did the author get the overall aesthetic to be so un-Claude-like?

People downvote me when I say we're back in the "Geocities era" / "indie web" of the 90's and 00's, but LLMs have enabled us to build cool side projects to completion and give them love. This is 100% a good thing. I love this website. It's fantastic. I don't care if it's AI. The world is better for it existing.

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Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by amelius » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 11:23 PM UTC

Do we have a theory yet why people hiccup? Wait, I just see you have a page on it :)

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by vesterde » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 11:25 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #25

Do we have a theory yet why people hiccup? Wait, I just see you have a page on it :)

Not that I know of. But some people so far visiting the site have voted that they do no get hiccups, which is very odd.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by lelandbatey » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 11:40 PM UTC

You should add "exploding head syndrome" which sounds crazy but is mostly "phantom loud noise especially as you're falling asleep"

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by vesterde » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 11:43 PM UTC

lelandbatey wrote: post #27

You should add "exploding head syndrome" which sounds crazy but is mostly "phantom loud noise especially as you're falling asleep"

It's there! :)

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by bonsai_spool » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 11:43 PM UTC

vesterde wrote: post #21

bonsai_spool wrote: post #20

Very cool site! It's got some Claude-isms but they're not overwhelming which leads me to wonder: how did the author get the overall aesthetic to be so un-Claude-like?

Please point out the claudeisms, I want to clear them all. V1 looked like complete Opus slop, but since I make many little sites all the time I can get it to undo a lot of them, one at a time. I just explicitly tell it the aesthetic to avoid per-element (like the famous left border), and eventually it looks okish. Edit: Ah and for text, Standard Technical English is a good instruction to give it, but I also told it t…

I don't think you can fix the Claude tells without rewriting everything on your own - but I do read/write a lot for work, so I think about voice a lot. Here's a handful of sentences that I feel a human would not have used but which are common Claude constructions:

"the alarming ones that are harmless" - We don't put dependent clauses at the end of sentences like this except for unusual emphasis

'quietly' - overused by Claude

the entries here are the moments where the guesswork shows - same as first example

"none of this needs damage or disease" - Also would be written differently as a human. Just try saying some of these things aloud and you'll feel odd

'unknown. nobody has counted it'

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by cmehdy » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 11:54 PM UTC

Awesome site! I didn't find canaliths on it so I might submit it to you eventually: roughly every winter I get vertigo when lying down, and apparently there is no "fix" except to "reposition my canaliths"[1].

It all goes away during the summer somehow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epley_maneuver