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Exponentials... that's the one with Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham, right?

Do you think the models are ready for the next level? I believe that would be: Pelican feeding Spaghetti to Will Smith.

Yea I'm curious if any of those negative commenters considered that the author is German, and English may not be their primary language — but no, apparently there is a new surefire way to detect AI content. Not forced enthusiasm. Not em dashes. Just too many sentences in a row starting with the word Not.

These links were previously submitted to HN without much traction:

Research Paper — https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24755

SlopCodeBench — https://www.scbench.ai/

And of course, the XCancel version of this post: https://xcancel.com/godofprompt/status/2038335755995750758

Hah, perfect... some variation of "From now on [your AI tool of choice] is banned. Just write code like a normal human f*king being, please." has probably already been used in the real world recently.

Yep, just a little more context and all/most of the models would do much better. And sure, most average+ intelligence adults whose first language is English (probably) don't need this, but they're not the target audience for the instructions :)

"The 'car wash' is a building I need to drive through."

or

"The 'car wash' is a bottle of cleaning fluid that I left at the end of my driveway."

https://i5.walmartimages.com/seo/Rain-x-Foaming-Car-Wash-Con...

And for doctors appointments... micuerpo!

I didn't see that review in the 4 shown in that section until I refreshed the page... there are some good ones in there, including a Hacker News shoutout :D

Maybe the LLMs were correct... here is a picture of the car wash:

https://i5.walmartimages.com/seo/Rain-x-Foaming-Car-Wash-Con...

And once you have the hang of this technique, congratulations! You can now enjoy those 3D "Magic Eye" images that stumped a significant portion of the population back in the 90s :)

e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/1lxqd0l/the_most_...

Was it maybe called Surround? Try looking up Atari catalog # CX2641 and see if it brings back any more memories :)

And for anyone who is nervous about clicking that video link at work: BBC in this context stands for British Broadcasting Corporation, which is a fairly well respected news group.

The new pyramid looks like a decent step in the right direction, and as other commenters have already mentioned: better definitions of "highly processed" vs "real food" might be helpful (but I think most of us probably have a fairly clear idea of what they mean).

Two more things I think should be considered:

1. Change the Nutrition Facts labels to say "Lipids" instead of "Fats". Seems like no matter how many times "fat doesn't make you fat" is repeated, many people are still scared of consuming fat.

2. Reconsider or recalculate the old 2000 calorie per day guidance. I have no actual data to support this — fitness and nutrition self-experimentation is just a hobby of mine — but I have a feeling that the "Average American" (which may also need to be defined somewhere) probably only needs around 1500 calories per day to maintain a healthy weight. There is obviously a wide range of needs depending on height, activity level, occupation, etc. but I feel like if someone is considering a 500 calorie treat, it would be more helpful if they thought "wow this is 1/3 of my daily calories... maybe I should split it with a friend" instead of "meh this is only 25% of my daily calories <chomp>"

Counterpoint: I've been using em dashes and bulleted lists in my writing (especially in work emails) since around 2015. There are dozens of us! Or maybe I'm just an LLM in a meat suit — who knows at this point.

any value over 2^31 seems to give random results.

Wow he really lucked out... On his way to perfecting a fully functioning and performant Even/Odd Detector, he stumbled upon a fully functioning and performant Coin Flip Simulator!

I don't mind at all, your rewrite looks much more elegant. Thanks!

If anyone wants to set this up to auto-run all the way to the right and then all the way back to the left, here is a vibe-coded (sorry) browser console script. Makes a great "screen-saver" if you kick off the script and then put your browser in full screen mode :)

    (function() {
        let direction = 'right'; // Start by going right
        let intervalId;

        function getCurrentAnimalName() {
            const animalDiv = document.querySelector('.animal-name');
            return animalDiv ? animalDiv.textContent.trim() : '';
        }

        function pressKey(keyCode) {
            const event = new KeyboardEvent('keydown', {
                key: keyCode === 37 ? 'ArrowLeft' : 'ArrowRight',
                keyCode: keyCode,
                code: keyCode === 37 ? 'ArrowLeft' : 'ArrowRight',
                which: keyCode,
                bubbles: true
            });
            document.dispatchEvent(event);
        }

        function autoScroll() {
            const currentName = getCurrentAnimalName();
            
            if (direction === 'right') {
                pressKey(39); // Right arrow
                
                if (currentName === 'Pando Clone') {
                    console.log('Reached Pando Clone, switching to left');
                    direction = 'left';
                }
            } else {
                pressKey(37); // Left arrow
                
                if (currentName === 'DNA') {
                    console.log('Reached DNA, switching to right');
                    direction = 'right';
                }
            }
        }

        // Start the interval
        intervalId = setInterval(autoScroll, 3000);
        
        // Log start message and provide stop function
        console.log('Auto-scroll started! To stop, call: stopAutoScroll()');
        
        // Expose stop function globally
        window.stopAutoScroll = function() {
            clearInterval(intervalId);
            console.log('Auto-scroll stopped');
        };
    })();

If you want to skip to December 31st, you can enter the following into your browser console to make all the tiles/doors openable:

  const elements = document.querySelectorAll(".countdown-calendar__door");
  elements.forEach(element => {
    element.classList.add("will-open");
  });

I think it was more than 2 though... en few? En feux.

Also a great read-through of this by H. Jon Benjamin (Archer / Bob's Burgers) and Maeve Higgins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5usXhX0zaO4

I wonder if the AI correctly identified it as a bag of Doritos, but was also trained on the commercial[0] where the bag appears to beat up a human (his fault for holding on too tight) and then it destroys an alien spacecraft.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIAnQwiCpRc

As a big fan of Chris Cornell I went through the same stream of emotions with their Motown version of Like a Stone[0]. And if you can get past the thumbnail, check out the 2000s Rock version of Many Men[1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_88Qg8FGrqY [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gFKREP3gPg

Don't forget Johnny Cash and Eddie Money :D

Yep! Nothing worth sharing/publishing from me, but quite a few mini projects that are specific to my position at a small non-tech company I work for. For example we send data to a client on a regular basis, and they send back an automated report with any data issues (missing fields, invalid entries, etc) in a human-unfriendly XML format. So I one-shotted a helper script to parse that data and append additional information from our environment to make it super easy for my coworkers to find and fix the data issues.

Shhh don't spoil the first filter! ;) Fun set of challenges though, they totally nerd-sniped me.

https://xkcd.com/356/

A couple of recent front page articles with an alternate perspective:

"The Mac app flea market": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45246971

"I launched a Mac utility; now there are 5 clones on the App Store using my story": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45269827

As an example: Take a look at the URL of this page (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45261163). Add 1 to that ID value (45261164) in your address bar. Hit Enter, your browser will GET whatever exists at the next ID.

Not quite as immersive as their deep dive into the Visual History of Rickrolling [0] but still a neat and interesting project.

[0] https://pudding.cool/2021/07/rickrolling/

Maybe they aren't, they could just be hosting these interviews as a fresh source of data for Claude to slurp up! ... sorry, I shouldn't be stirring up conspiracy theories this late on a Friday.

Arrrgh I remember an interview where I got this lucky... and I ended up failing it miserably. It was a python-heavy position, and I had been watching some Peter Norvig videos in the weeks beforehand to prepare. They asked me to implement some basic functionality of a poker game, which was EXACTLY what one of the videos was about. I was trying so hard not to copy his approach, and my own 'natural' approach would have been fairly similar (but not nearly as elegant), so by trying to avoid both of those approaches I made a complete mess, haha