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A suspect had been apprehended. Let’s see if it’s actually the person who did it.


> This looks to me like they are acknowledging that their claims were premature, possibly due to claims of false advertising, but are otherwise carrying forward as they were.

Delusionaly generous take. Perhaps even zealotry.


This is going to be remembered as a really weird tale in the annals of our industry’s history.


Anyone else get strong GPT5 vibes from this article?


Author here. No the article is not generated, it's dictated. This was more of a shower-thought (car thought I guess, since i was driving) that I dictated and fed to deepseek to punctuate and structure for myself. When it's a quick, short, unrefined article, I post it on the byte size section of my blog. So no, these are my words, and you can find it on some of my old comments where I mention how I've been testing AI editing and it's a hit or miss.


Yes, either the author writes like AI, or this was written by AI. Either of which are not great


Not really: as much as I despise AI slop, LLMs do a much better job than this author of making sure I have the information needed to understand a point. For example:

> I have this little web app I built for my kids to help them manage their day. It has those tiles that animate when you hover on them.

I have absolutely no idea what “those tiles” are. They are familiar to the author, but he has not bothered to explain them well enough to deserve that familiar “those.” AI would have explained them better.

This isn’t AI slop, just sloppy writing.


No. Could you try to put your finger on what exactly in this text gives you the vibes?

Also, a sibling comment suggests that "those tiles" is some sort of slop; but I find it no more sloppy than "this little web app" in the preceding sentence. Both are handwavy markers of imprecision common in oral speech. A comment on English Stack Exchange points out that this feature is referred to as the "indefinite this" [0].

[0] - https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/389637/using-thi...


Yea. I was not going to say that because apparently it's bad etiquette - and we're supposed to look at the substance. It happened to my writing once where someone said it was AI written and it did hurt me. :'(

But at this point I'm seeing it everywhere... the "Trash question? Trash answer" format posed as poetry EVERYWHERE and it is correlated with slop and I'm finding it very annoying to read. I might (to my own detriment perhaps) start factoring that in into what I'm gonna continue reading.

Examples of that question format in this article: - Liquid Glass? That's what your M4 CPU is for - That glassy transparency and window animations? A notorious resource hog that brought mid-2000s hardware to its knees - The moment a single tile wiggles? The entire UI crawls - Checking mail? Browsing? Streaming? Your M4 is bored out of its silicon mind - That whole section on: Battery life? ... Thermals? ... Future-proofing? ... Real workloads? ... ugh. - Is it worth it? For Apple’s vibe? Probably. But next time your fan whispers or your battery dips faster than expected… maybe blame the glass.

And apart from that question format, there's another thing but I can't quite figure out the pattern behind it but is slop: (I would really love to figure out what my brain thinks as "off" in these - maybe sentence length variability, maybe colons, or maybe trying to be poetic or dramatic or too self-assured with basically no data/substance underneath it, idk): - Let’s be real: eye candy always comes at a price. - When the system’s stressed, the pretty things break first. - They chew through GPU/CPU time. Always have. - Here’s my hot take: Apple knows exactly what they’re doing - It's stealth bloat. - You might not feel the drag today. That’s the point! The M4’s raw power is the perfect smokescreen. But those cycles aren’t free - TL;DR: Liquid Glass is gorgeous tech debt. Your M4 can afford it… for now. But never forget: fancy pixels demand fancy math.

Basically the entire article at this point. There was one place which was a bit personalized about the web app he built for his kids where I was like OK at least something seems OK, but as another user pointed out "It has those tiles that animate when you hover on them" doesn't make any sense. What tiles. How are we supposed to know.


the TLDR especially


Honestly good question. Second time Gleam marketing has showed up on front page in a few days. I’m pretty well plugged in to the state of the industry and never heard of it.

Was super surprised to see this #1 on the front page just now. Really makes you wonder.


> I’m pretty well plugged in to the state of the industry and never heard of it.

Which industry?

Either way, I'm not sure whether Gleam is used much by "the industry".


Isn’t that my point?


Maybe so. And then you're overrating "the industry". The industry is full of people making bad technological choices...


Sorry but I have heard a lot about Gleam for at least one year. Since they had a 1.0 release and ThePrimeTime [0] Youtube channel featured it (it has 175k views as of writing, for a new programming language video that's like a number 1 hit). They are being backed by fly.io and have an impressive number of sponsors[1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mfO821E7sE

[1] https://gleam.run/sponsor/


Could be a great time to revisit the trades where AI has a long way to go in helping out.


We’re experimenting with this stuff. So far great. Way better isolation (obviously) than containers. Pretty easy to use so far. Any gotchas?


The virtual devices it implements are fairly limited in number, and you may find bottlenecks with high IO throughput applications.

It uses memory ballooning as its dynamic memory management. Managing this balloon requires some custom implementations if you want to do things like reclaim memory from the guest.

If a large file is created and deleted within the host that disk space stays claimed until the VMs disk is deleted.

No GPU support.


Not sure how I feel about “front-paging hackernews” as part of a devrel take home test. Obviously, I understand how important it is—I want my devrels to write content that drives front page traffic. But as a HN user…


Author here! Just want to be extra crystal clear that Anthropic gave me a boring/standard coding project. I decided to post a parallel project to HN to demonstrate that I was able to quickly create engaging software. They in no way asked or insinuated that I share anything online


You should read Venture Deals! Great book by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson that's really comprehensive in this.


Also a good book for those interested in VC is The Venture Mindset by Ilya Strebulaev.


Honestly why hasn't there been a flash-like competitor or alternative that has filled the gap of creatives being able to quickly produce content and distribute it easily on the internet? I think the HTML5 folks envisioned <audio/> and <canvas/> being all you need for interactive stuff, but that hasn't really come to fruition. For animated content, is it perhaps YouTube that took over?


I'm always amused by this question.

There is, it's called Adobe Animate, its what they rebranded Flash as, it's literally the same thing. It exports straight to Canvas and WebGL using the create.js libraries. [0]

Basically the online advertising space had a collective heart attack when Flash was suddenly deprecated because they used Flash for all their banner animations. Adobe tried to replace Flash with Edge [1], which was one of the slowest and buggiest program I ever used. It didn't last long.

[0] https://createjs.com/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Edge


I think kids just jumped onto Unreal, Unity and Blender instead of bothering with 2d.


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