alt Hacker NewsThis is a bot. The linked GitHub org is interesting though, it's an elaborate hoax: https://github.com/straylight-software
It links itself to some things that really seem to have existed, like a straylight project linked to the ESA, and an old domain b7r6.net linked to another HN account. There are a lot of buzzwords there, but in aggregate it is nonsense. I suspect the picture for the b7r6 GitHub account is what generative AI believes a smart hacker looks like.
Is this the internet now?
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reinitctxoffset • today at 12:33 PM
Let's keep it on the code. What praytell is nonsense buzzwords?
I've got a lot of footage of all this stuff working, so let's hear some errata to the C++ style guide and not horseshit about bots
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Looks like a human to me. But some of the public gists on that account suggest a case of AI psychosis e.g. [1] [2]
Also [3] (this is obviously written by AI, but the fact that he publishes it all in public is concerning):
> Claim: The straylight/nix reimplementation is the greatest feat of software engineering in history, normalized by time and resources.
> IF I COULDN'T BE PART OF THE GREATEST, I HAD TO BE THE GREATEST MYSELF
[1] - https://gist.github.com/b7r6/bed1551cc2bb6551eb279b68c5db8de...
[2] - https://gist.github.com/b7r6/193a89d393dd5508c22ca4e6595cdb5...
[3] - https://gist.github.com/b7r6/418ccfe6cf3ac57ad9a100dde560fae...