logoalt Hacker News

b-kftoday at 5:18 PM4 repliesview on HN

bit meta but can I just applaud the article?

Descriptive title, immediately comes to the point, no elaborate fluff, factual... what a nice change of pace. 95% of other users finding this would have done much worse. This is not clickbait, not calling for a social media campaign, has no embedded tweets of interaction with Google engineers trying to shame them, no singling out of individuals, ...

Not sure if a user posting own material should declare so with `show hn` or so, that might be the only possible avenue of criticism (but I don't know the netiquette around that well enough).


Replies

zahlmantoday at 6:15 PM

With JavaScript disabled I had to inspect page source and remove "hidden" attributes from divs for content to show up. There's no placeholder text, no attempt to justify the need for JS at all, no consideration of the possibility that someone might be using a JS whitelisting tool (such as NoScript) on the modern Web despite its clear utility. For a blog post.

Aside from that:

> Descriptive title, immediately comes to the point, no elaborate fluff, factual...

I'll give you "descriptive title". I could write this much more directly and pleasantly.

show 1 reply
Tiberiumtoday at 5:26 PM

You're in for a surprise then, because this article is clearly in an LLM style. That doesn't mean it's hallucinated, no, there is a real human behind, but the actual content that you enjoyed is LLM-written.

show 5 replies
javxfpstoday at 5:31 PM

Thank you for the feedback! It's my first time posting here, so I didn't really know I should do that. I'll do that now.

show 1 reply