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WatchDog · 2026-06-12T03:01:38 1781233298

For all the complaints like this that I see about AI generated websites, the complaints rarely come with counter examples of what a good human generated alternative should look like.

The authors blog design is perfectly functional, and I'm not suggesting that it needs any changes, but it also isn't a particularly impressive piece of web design.

port11 · 2026-06-12T19:04:50 1781291090

In a way, Httpster would be a counter-example; but then some would claim that over-design landing pages are annoying in other ways.

You can either please the Greeks or the Trojans, I guess.

crooked-v · 2026-06-12T03:24:21 1781234661

I'm a fan of vaporwave and dithering, myself.

WatchDog · 2026-06-11T02:34:37 1781145277

Those that spend all day posting on HN aren't always the most hinged.

MichaelZuo · 2026-06-11T02:41:08 1781145668

True… there’s always been some of that.

But the most egregious cases, such as posting short replies that literally self contradict and self negate their own credibility within the span of a few sentences… was very rare before.

At least from high karma accounts.

WatchDog · 2026-06-11T02:51:09 1781146269

Building up karma only requires that on balance one's contributions are popular.

Many accounts will contribute constructively on topics that are technical or objective, but then become more antagonistic on controversial or political topics.

So long as they don't severely break site rules, it's unlikely that they will be subject to major moderator action.

MichaelZuo · 2026-06-11T02:56:12 1781146572

Hmmm… This would imply the value of karma is much less and my threshold should be much higher?

To keep the bar at roughly the same relative difficulty.

Say 10,000+ karma?

If so, my example would no longer apply.

Karrot_Kream · 2026-06-11T03:14:53 1781147693

This site has gotten a lot more popular and so it's a lot easier to rise up in karma these days. It's really easy to get lots of upvotes and downvotes in pretty much any of the controversial/political threads on the site because they get a lot of attention, a lot more than the more technical or sedate posts. My guess is the mods don't have the time to look at as many of the comments anymore just because there are so many.

WatchDog · 2026-06-10T01:32:16 1781055136

Do these containers share a common kernel? Or are they each ran in a separate VM?

Edit: It's a VM per container. https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/technical-...

leshenka · 2026-06-10T16:49:24 1781110164

Isn't it wasteful? I know it's a "tiny" vm but still is a vm

pjmlp · 2026-06-10T18:05:09 1781114709

See Kata containers.

https://katacontainers.io/

For ultimate security, containers alone aren't enough.

Windows is also having a similar feature on top of WSL, announced at BUILD.

https://github.com/microsoft/mxc

Melatonic · 2026-06-10T20:24:33 1781123073

Isnt this a micro VM and not a container? Confused

pjmlp · 2026-06-10T21:11:20 1781125880

A micro VM than encapsulates a single container inside, two levels of protection.

WatchDog · 2026-06-09T23:55:50 1781049350

Lot's of countries already require this but it's trivially by-passable just by using a roaming capable SIM from a country that does not require it.

WatchDog · 2026-06-09T23:36:13 1781048173

"First run" certainly exists in web apps, it's just running JS in a browser rather than a shell script on a developer or CI machine.

There is plenty of malicious stuff you can do from the browser.

WatchDog · 2026-06-03T00:47:19 1780447639

> disparate projects as Valkey and Lua

Lua is often heavily used in Redis/Valkey, if you are interested in porting Valkey, it makes sense to also port Lua, they aren't "disparate".

WatchDog · 2026-05-31T22:59:46 1780268386

By the same token, you aren't entitled to see the website content.

rfl890 · 2026-06-01T00:00:42 1780272042

True, but that's at the discretion of the content author/publisher, not Cloudflare Turnstile.

LelouBil · 2026-06-01T03:48:51 1780285731

It's the publisher that enabled Turnstile.

rfl890 · 2026-06-05T01:58:30 1780624710

I don't think publishers have some sort of desire for their visitors to have their information collected by Cloudflare; they usually just enable it to protect their website from bots.

WatchDog · 2026-05-27T03:56:11 1779854171

Your theory about token density seems reasonable, but your data doesn't seem to really match it.

Very little difference between TypeScript and JavaScript, which are essentially the same language, just one has more tokens.

Functional languages like Clojure and OCaml are pretty dense, I would have expected them to feature lower.

Kotlin is in some ways a more token dense version of Java, yet Kotlin leads, and Java is almost last.

WatchDog · 2026-05-27T02:12:11 1779847931

It might be, I'm not sure.

The code is interesting though, it's not minified, it's very readable, and nicely indented with lots of comments.

The curated data center list is just some inline JSON.

The javascript uses var instead of let or const, I'm not sure if this is just style choice, or there is some code post processing.

It doesn't use react, AI seems to almost always opt for react for front end design, unless told otherwise.

eleventen · 2026-05-27T02:53:55 1779850435

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WatchDog · 2026-05-27T03:12:25 1779851545

I think it's absurd to pretend like you can know how a stranger thinks.

If I had to predict either way, I would guess that it is significantly AI generated, but that isn't the same thing as being sure.

Almost every link submitted to HN has a comment about the content being AI generated, many of which are not, I would rather talk about the "tells" rather than make confident assertions that I can't prove.

ghayes · 2026-05-27T04:28:18 1779856098

For example, https://mydetector.ai/ai-code-detector/ says 90% likely AI. Not that I trust the tools, but there are telltales to me in this function from the site:

     Object.values(zipBuckets).forEach(function(b) {
       var latest = b.reports.map(function(r){return r.date;}).sort().reverse()[0];
       // ...
       var popup =
         '<div style="font-family: Inter, sans-serif; min-width:220px; max-width:280px;">' +
         (noteLines ? '<ul style="font-size:12px; color:#3a4a2a; padding-left:16px; margin:0;">' + noteLines + '</ul>' : '') +
       // ...
     }

Certain ergonomics are hard to miss since a human who writes heavy FP would opt for a `(r) => r.date` lambda, where the computer has no problem writing out inline `function(r)`-style declarations. Similarly, the HTML mapping function could go either way, but mixing in large sets of text with hard constants would be really uncommon for humans to write.

JavaScript is always a mess, but it's a _different_ mess between humans and AI, and this function `loadCommunityReports` really reads AI-first to me.

eCa · 2026-05-27T05:59:37 1779861577

I’ve only seen this snippet (on phone so no source access), but var + no fat arrow could also indicate someone who learned js a long time ago and use as what they’re used to.

tstrimple · 2026-05-27T08:04:56 1779869096

People who provide nothing but comments like “this is ai!” actually contribute far less than AI responses somehow.

WatchDog · 2026-05-27T00:00:30 1779840030

> ...I never will do is cross the "just business"/"personal" line with anyone I may or am working with.

Just in an interview situation, or you will just never be open to a personal friendship with anyone you ever work with?

kxrm · 2026-05-27T00:23:45 1779841425

> you will just never be open to a personal friendship with anyone you ever work with?

Building relationships with colleagues is possible but I have tried to be careful. I have made some friends over time that were once co-workers. However, they were only able to move to full friend once they moved on to other teams or companies. I don't see someone I work with day-to-day as a personal friend. I compartmentalize them, keep the relationship professional and cordial.

Moving someone to a personal friend has risks, especially if there is a chance you may work for or with them again. Some personal friendships may be able to outlast work drama, but so far I haven't had that happen for me. I've lost a few along the way due to negative conditions at work.

Have you had a personal friend that stayed around after leaving a bad situation at work? Any pointers?

genewitch · 2026-05-27T02:34:33 1779849273

My best friend is someone i worked with, and we hit it off immediately. He also was one of the people who interviewed me before hire, too. I left the company because of medication induced issues with co-workers (long boring story... careful with SSRIs kids!)

and we still ... actually he just called so i gotta cut this short we talk 5 hours a week on the phone plus we run a PBX and chat server and stuff so we're constantly in contact.