LLM-written article.

That was my first thought. Ironic they don't want to read LLM responses in their searches but they expect us to read their LLM article about it.

The LLM-isms are a bit boring, but not necessarily a tell that the article as a whole is worthless. I read the full thing and pretty much agree.

Explain your reasoning beyond "oh they used em dashes"

There's a recognizable style to the overall piece.

The subheadings for example "The summary is not the answer" and "The verification problem is real and it compounds" are typical being punchy but not really making much sense.

Also consider

>This is slower. That's real. It's more work. And it is, in practice, more accurate — because accuracy in information retrieval is a function of reading, not of being read to.

The over punchy - It's this. It's that. It's the other - is typical or LLMs. The accuracy being a function of reading not being read to doesn't really make sense - with both normal results and AI you are reading.

etc.

But is anything you said any more than heuristic?

How did you know?!

What do you believe your comment adds to the discussion about this article?

I'd prefer more proof / context than GP gave, but I personally find it very useful to see people making judgements about AI-assistance of articles. Almost no such articles are worth my time, and the more HN people saying it, the more I know not to click past the HN headline.

Pangram agrees it's 100% LLM written.

But I'm sure you understand that AI-driven "AI detectors" have an error rate of probably 90%, right?

I've heard of people taking old writings from 30 years ago, feeding it to an AI detector, and being told "this is AI"

Pangram seems to be tuned to avoid false positives most of the time.

Same as a NSFW tag. It's not about adding to the discussion; it's a very brief warning to users who don't want to see that kind of content, and its brevity makes it come at almost no cost to users who don't care about SFW/NSFW or AI/OC distinctions.

I agree I run the risk of being wrong and could at least provide some evidence, but I think at the very least it can be one additional piece of information someone could use in their consumption of this content.

If you can't be bothered to write even one specific thing from the article content you object to, then your account might as well be a pre-LLM bot that just posts "first" or "LLM Content" which is somehow even lazier than an LLM blog post.

Are these reasoning blobs the reason ChatGPT always requests to “store data in persistent storage”?

Does that website blocking work for browsers other than Safari?

Yes

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Back to Nix again? I remember one of their employees had a great video series on it, but then they stopped using it because it was too complicated.

Yeah, they gave a talk about it at NixCon last year:

https://talks.nixcon.org/nixcon-2025/talk/UPHTPD/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYzjKCIqUVk

I don't remember all of the details, so if you're curious you should watch the talk. :)

But IIRC the main points that differentiated this new effort from the old one were that (1) there was buy-in from the very top of the company, (2) they took a more incremental approach where the old one was more all-or-nothing, and (3) they tackled the edge cases and hardest repos first.

The talk includes some info about the failings of their first effort as well. It's worth a watch.

Oops, I linked to the original (2019) talk above. Here's the new one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogW7UL1Jxm4

I’m running the risk of just getting an AI response back, but:

How are you able to boot Debian from an SD card, and without unlocking the bootloader?

Does the bootloader look for an OS on SD card by default? SD and eMMC are basically the same thing, is it just the same lines but an SD card takes priority over the eMMC? And does it not enforce verified boot properly / at all? Maybe being a Rockchip and not MTK/QCOM has something to do with it, but it’s still an Android device and I would assume there’s something in CTS/VTS/GMS licensing that makes verified boot mandatory.

Likewise, I don’t know if I’m getting a question from an AI or not :)

But the answer is fairly simple, on a lot of Rockchip devices I’ve used, if there is no SPI flash or custom boot order, the BootROM checks the SD card first and then falls back to eMMC.

That is what happens here. Take the tablet out of the box, write the image to an SD card, insert it, and it boots directly into Linux instead of Android.

So the eMMC Android bootloader can be locked, but it doesn’t matter much if the SoC boots from SD first. Verified boot applies to the Android boot chain on eMMC, not to an external boot path that is accepted earlier by the Rockchip boot flow.

And now you’ll never know if this was an AI answer or not :)

There’s SELinux, everything is mounted nosuid, barely anything runs as root except init. I doubt it.

You don't need a suit binary for this, they have arbitrary write of memory. The suid binary is just a convenient and portable way to demonstrate it. Real exploits will use many different mechanisms.

Wow, Tinkertoys, I still remember how the wood smelled and the big drum it came in.

Core childhood memory reignited.

As someone who doesn't pay much attention to the world of mechanical keyboards, very happy that I can use "thock" as a filter.

EDIT: A quick Google shows it's a pretty popular term, so I guess that's how I even know about it, the only other mechanical keyboard term in my vocabulary being "Cherry MX Blue clicky switches" for the ones on my AliExpress mechanical keyboard that prevent me from using the keyboard around other people. Unfortunately it also makes it difficult to hear the keyboard sounds without clicking on the letters instead :(

Thock is a filter if you type in the bar, and adding "Play sample" button, didn't think of it, but a good idea!

I think you’ve misread my comment, I’m saying that thock does indeed work as a filter in the search bar!

Or similar/clones, like the Atten ST-862D.

Interesting, but is the required combination of EML gates less complex than using other primitives?

Depends on how you define complexity?

Like when the Apollo guidance computer was made, the bottleneck was making integrated chips so they only made one, the NOR gate, and a whackton of routing to build out an entire CPU. Horribly complex routing, very simplified integrated circuit construction

In general, no.

It's about symbolic computation more than calculations.

Yes, and it's not all that useful there either.

Eg ln is a rather complicated construct, it's not even a function. That's because for complex numbers, e^x is not bijective, and thus its inverse ain't a function.

So using that complicated construct to define something simpler like addition invites extra complexity.