Someone should make a browser extension to label HN posts with Pangram results of the top 100 posts, so I don't waste my time reading crap.
Always a pleasure reading Bryan's writing; it's like Bryan is sitting there with you and saying the words (hard to convey the feeling).
Agreed, I like the Oxide podcast as well, even though it’s hardware I’m unlikely to ever see never mind use, it’s nice that someone somewhere is still trying to be what they are trying to be.
Having dealt with Enterprise Hardware(TM) in a previous job, it’s refreshing simply to see someone look at that pile of crap and go “it doesn’t have to be that way” and then actually set out to prove it.
They have a ton of rfds publicly available that are worth reading. Recently, read this one: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0161 because I'm researching clickhouse for my work (there is also a podcast ep on it). Even if you never use their hardware, just reading their work around the software they use/make is incredibly valuable as an engineer.
That is honestly the highest possible praise -- thank you. And when this piece was starting to boil inside of me last night (triggered, I'm sorry to report, by an obviously LLM-authored guest blog entry from the Rust Foundation[0]), I messaged one of my colleagues: "Time to do what I do best: bluntly say what lots of people are thinking."
Glad those words proved prophetic!
[0] https://rustfoundation.org/media/how-the-rust-standard-libra...
“Not every one of those 11,970 carries the same weight, and the paper is careful about that rather than rounding it up.”
AAUGH IT BURNS
Right?! When I hit "That work was genuinely valuable" I literally hollered in exasperation.
For me it was “the results speak for themselves” and then simply a (large) number of automated tests run that never had human eyes.
Yes, quantity famously has a quality all its own, but perhaps not where correctness checks for something this central is concerned.
I have (an API, not an extension), but pangram is way to expensive for me to run, current (v4) pricing is $0.05 per 100 words. Should be absolutely doable if we split the cost between users tho.
I tried searching for good opensource / reasonably priced alternatives, pangram themselves even have some of their older architecture and training data on github/hugging face, but i never got that working reliably enough.
I would go even further, I want a browser extension that scans all words on every page and colours them more and more transparent as the likelihood of llm prose is increased.
Years ago I used a rudimentary (text matching) Greasemonkey script that hid Reddit posts and comments from accounts matching a few behavioral/history signals.
I wonder if that idea could be modernized now for this.
I’m working on something like this! My issue is that using Pangram for it ends up being quite expensive.
Are you footing the bill yourself, or would you be supporting BYOK? Not sure whether logging in with user's account would also be a good workaround or not.
There's a website that does this: https://www.salahadawi.com/hacker-news-ai-detector
Unfortunately, it's not a browser extension and doesn't seem to have an API. I'd make a browser extension for this myself if it didn't involve paying for expensive Pangram usage.
AI slop really needs to be auto-flagged. It’s been like 20% of front page links I click on lately.
AI comments are auto-flagged, but not posts.