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Show HN: Humans vs. LLMs – See how your website looks to LLMs
by sidchilling | 2025-06-23 13:20:36+00:00
We built a free tool that compares how your site appears to humans vs how LLMs really see it.

You’ll see how well your content is structured, what LLMs can extract, and where you’re missing visibility in AI search.

You can try it here - https://aipageready.com/humans-vs-llms
by jinnert | 2025-06-23 13:20:38+00:00
I shouldn't have made the two seem mutually exclusive. I think physical attractiveness is becoming a far higher priority for each successive generation of men while hard work, loyalty, dedication, etc are declining in perceived value, to the extent that these may even be viewed as the traits of a loser. We have abandoned the benefits of meritocracy, and young men are adapting to that. Rather than looksmaxxing in lieu of pursuing success, young men are looksmaxxing as it has become essential to success.
by reylas | 2025-06-23 13:20:56+00:00
"A climate scientist knows best", lets talk about this one as it is a perfect example of lost trust. It is not corruption that destroys the message, but constantly being incorrect.

Just a warning, I may agree with them overall, but they are constantly getting the numbers wrong. We have been 3 years away from the point of no return for the last 20 years. I am old enough to remember the "ice age" that we were going to enter. There are a ton of video clips showing Al Gore predicting things that never came to past.

I read the science and I agree that climate is changing, but to the layperson, they have been saying wrong things for years now and they are tired of hearing them "cry wolf". The moral of the "cry wolf" story is that the falsehoods are what causes people not to be prepared. It is not helping the cause.
by usrbinbash | 2025-06-23 13:21:42+00:00
> In a vacuum these things go totally nuts

And that is, in a nutshell, my point. An AGI has to be autonomous. It cannot "go nuts" without handholding, same as a human needs to be able to (under normal operating conditions) remain coherent, even if left to their own devices.

> the environment deserves just as much thought in any analysis of an AI-based system.

Couldn't agree more, and since I know how much work these environments are to build, the people doing so well, have at least as much of my respect as the ones who devise the models.

But again, and I'm sorry I am pulling the "definition and meaning" card again: We cannot devise a system that requires a tight corset of an execution environment keeping tabs on it all the time lest it goes bananas, and still call it an AGI. Humans don't work that way, and no matter how we define "AGI", in the end I think we can agree that "something like how we do thinking" is pretty close to any valid definition, no?

If I need to lock something in 10 days to sunday to prevent it from going off the rails, I cannot really call it an AGI.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-06-23 13:21:55+00:00
I remember discovering Beavis and Butthead in the 90s and showing it to my parents, and their being more confused than offended by the short (for the time) and scattered 15-minute episodes. I'm pretty sure if you went back 50 years and showed TikTok to people who were used to things like Columbo and Loveboat, they'd just be confused and wonder what the point is.

If anything, I'd say the people who enjoy absorbing entertainment in 7-second chunks have been reprogrammed and desensitized in a way that's not normal, though I wouldn't slap any psych labels on them either.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-06-23 13:22:02+00:00
Smartphones (and everything in general) will be discarded at some point (realistically, sooner than later) with 100% certainty whatever slogans you want to push. So effective and efficient recycling is the most important for sustainability, it is absolutely crucial. But, as said, it is possibly the trickiest bit that requires in-depth industrial work across the whole chain so, instead, simplistic alternatives are pushed.

At one smartphone per human being over 10 years old, thinking that "reduce" and "reuse" (how?) will make a difference is completely unrealistic.
by cempaka | 2025-06-23 13:22:35+00:00
It's not just this administration, it's been essentially open season for fraud in the U.S. financial system ever since 2008. If you're a hoi polloi dentist who makes $100,000 trading options off of some insider info then yes, there are SEC cops on the beat who will come after you. Otherwise, you can pretty much do whatever you want until & unless a whole lot of people lose money, at which point it's too late.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-06-23 13:23:00+00:00
Ghost cities are really just ghost districts, and they simply aren’t economically viable which is why they are deserted, traffic won’t make something economically viable, and it’s quite the opposite, economic viability brings traffic. Self driving isn’t going to make Kangbashi or Tianjin’s new financial district popular.

China is demoing a lot of self driving cars in their suburbs however, so not core Beijing, but out in Daxing or Changping, for example. China could and will mandate self driving cars in dense city cores when they become viable to optimize traffic flow in cities that can’t really fit many more new roads. And Chinese companies are working hard to make mass produced Lidar economical, while America will probably just put high tariffs on that.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-23 13:23:08+00:00
>It's really hard to say what the US has allowed as regards Israel. Locals near a particular nuclear facility can recall an Israeli "team of scientists" mysteriously visiting the facility, a year or so before Israel declared themselves a nuclear power. The assumption is that they "snuck" material out, while US officials were "distracted" - by prior agreement.

Israel has never declared themselves a nuclear power. They literally have a hebrew word for their refusal to answer questions on the matter.

That's also a very very suspicious story that anonymous locals near an anonymous nuclear facility that supposedly knew about a top secret team of israel scientists...

>I believe the US nuclear-armed Israel directly.

I doubt.
by resource_waste | 2025-06-23 13:24:19+00:00
As someone deep into International Relations, I always find it a bit interesting to hear when someone says 'X nation is untrustworthy'. I mostly find it interesting because it means some event disrupted norms to a level that The Commons is aware. Everyone in IR knows trust/morals is not something to put weight into, but 'normies' are always surprised whenever there is a chance in IR that contradicts international law or norms.

It will surprise most Americans to realize the world is not governed by Liberalism/Institutions, despite the veil presented. However, at the highest level the world is managed by the principles of IR Realism.

'Trust' is subordinate to national interests, the purpose of trust is small, only enough to make deals. However, even then, deals are always backed by verification methods and checked consistently.

None of this is unique to the US, The West, or this century.
by matwood | 2025-06-23 13:24:36+00:00
> Without freedom of association people stop socializing when you get a plurality population, you can see this everywhere in the US.

What does this mean? Why would people stop socializing?

> If the immigrants were a net benefit things like housing would be getting cheaper since we otherwise would have shrinking population. Because of the effect I mentioned the opposite is happening.

Of all the issues with housing, you think immigrants are the primary force driving prices up? That a farm worker is causing houses in my neighborhood to be $1M+? Once all the constructing workers are driven away, we're about to see a real supply shock likely to drive prices higher.

> Plus just replacing the population doesn't actually help them.

Help who? Fewer Americans are having kids. The US economic system is built on growth and that also means population growth. An aging and shrinking US is a dying US.

> None of us need or want more immigrants.

Why not, and be specific. More so than anywhere else in the world, the US was built on immigration. Even with all the problems in the US, its ability to attract people who want to work hard and create a better life has been its superpower. This mixing pot of ideas and cultures is one of the keys that turned the US into the economic powerhouse it is today. Unfortunately, Trump is doing his best to dismantle the institutions that made America great.

Yes, immigration needs to be fixed. The people already in the US need to be given straightforward paths to be legal. And people outside the US should be given straightforward ways to come live and work and contribute to the US.
by time0ut | 2025-06-23 13:25:34+00:00
Nice write up. I did something similar at a company recently. The ransomware use case was the primary driver. AWS Backup felt kind of half baked. It also took a lot of work to ensure we could bring the apps up in the recovery account smoothly. Trying to retrofit this into existing stacks was kind of a pain.

There is a YC company called Arpio [0] that does this sort of thing as a service. It can replicate a ton of stuff beyond what Backup does (it also uses Backup for certain things from what I remember). It works as advertised and for most companies is probably worth it vs doing this yourself. I am not affiliated, just worked with it at a customer.

[0] https://arpio.io/
by codingdave | 2025-06-23 13:25:49+00:00
I don't see change being as rampant as all that. You hear about the change on places like HN, and people talk about it, and startups try many new things. But the bulk of coding is quietly being done on corporate systems that are slow-moving and relatively stable, often on legacy systems. There just isn't much to say about that work, so we don't talk much about it.
by IAmBroom | 2025-06-23 13:26:07+00:00
It always reminds me of the Japanese attempts to diminish the status and history of the Ainu, a caucasoid racial group from their northernmost islands.

Extensive research and data now point to the Ainu having lived on those islands from long before Chinese people first sailed to Japan and populated it - making the despised Ainu the true, actual Native Japanese.
by thunky | 2025-06-23 13:26:09+00:00
> But you should move on from that "tiered" thing. I live here. I have been doing a project with Arabs for the last two weeks. We have lunch together most days. Move on.

As convincing as your lunch anecdote is, I'm not sure you're can hand waive away the problem so easily.

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Israel

A March 2010 poll by Tel Aviv University found that 49.5% of Israeli Jewish high school students believe Israeli Arabs should not be entitled to the same rights as Jews in Israel

An October 2010 poll by the Dahaf polling agency found that 36% of Israeli Jews favor eliminating voting rights for non-Jews

A 2012 poll revealed widespread support among Israeli Jews for discrimination against Israeli Arabs, including 33% of respondents believing Israeli Arabs should be denied the right to vote, 42% objecting to their children going to the same schools as Arabs, and 49% "[wanting] the state to treat Jews better than Arabs"

And on and on and on...
by belorn | 2025-06-23 13:26:55+00:00
There are two boats that are under primary suspicion. One Russian salvage ship named SS-750 that carries a mini-submarine, which circled around for no apparent reason in the vicinity of the explosion area 4 days before the explosion. Then there is another boat, a 50-foot (15.4m) sailing yacht named Andromeda, was reportedly near the site of two of the three explosions in the days before they occurred. Traces of military explosives were found on Andromeda.

The Andromeda ship was operated by an Ukrainian national, and rented by a company from Uzbekistan, the owner of which holds a Russian and a Ukrainian passport which resident is located in the annexed Crimea.

In addition there are around 5 more ships that have been in the area.

There have been and still are multiple investigations. Sweden and Denmark dropped the cases citing lack of jurisdiction/basis to continue investigation. Germany issued an arrest warrant toward suspected operators of the Andromeda ship.

There was an alleged leaked Dutch intelligence report that implicated Ukrainians that was given to the The Washington Post, but military analysts from Sweden and Denmark has expressed strong doubts of the practicality of an 15.4-metre sailing boat to do a 80 meter technical dive using a crew of 6 to plant that much explosives (over 500kg) and at 3 different sites. As such they has described the Andromeda theory as a distraction and false flag.
by resource_waste | 2025-06-23 13:27:00+00:00
>IMO the US should have never been trusted

I propose, they had never been trusted. Nations do not believe in trust. At the International Relations level, IR Realism is basically the only generally accepted policy. You may have a few Constructivists, but the smartest ones still put trust and norms below power calculations.

Its really that the average person has essentially no understanding of IR and history.

I assure you that verification methods have been happening. The amount of trust was less than the amount of verification.
by colejohnson66 | 2025-06-23 13:27:00+00:00
Target does allow third-party sellers on Target.com (and the app), but they allow in-store returns on anything — even third-party items. When I worked as a receiver, there were random items to process out that would normally/likely be salvage, but went to the returns processing center because they were from online orders. There also seems to be curation.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-23 13:27:03+00:00
Nah, you're exhibiting the fundamental problem which is effectively conspiratorial thinking. Not in the UFO sense, and I don't mean it disparagingly at all -- I mean literally ascribing behavior to some type of superstructure that doesn't really exist.

"The healthcare system" is not one thing that "says" stuff. For every component of the education system that was trying to eliminate trades, there were others trying to combat it, and neither side was merely the decision of any conscious agent that could be said to be deciding or "saying" anything. All of the outcomes and the things these systems "say" are emergent phenomena from a confluence of countless forces. Sometimes they yield bad outcomes!

But that doesn't mean you can just toss out the system, largely because unless you alter the larger dynamics that produced that system, any replacement will just come to mimic the prior one. The individuals involved hardly matter.
by uncircle | 2025-06-23 13:27:08+00:00
> A big part of the difference is that the BSDs are designed by a governing committee

While I cannot agree nor disagree on the quality of BSDs (haven't used one in 20 years), I find it funny that in this case a design by committee is proof of quality.

I guess it's better than design by headless chicken which is how the Linux user-space is developed. Personally, I am a big fan of design by dictatorship, where one guy at the top either has a vision or can reject silly features and ideas with strong-enough words (Torvalds, Jobs, etc.) - this is the only way to create a cohesive experience, and honestly if it works for the kernel, there's no reason it shouldn't work in userspace.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-06-23 13:27:10+00:00
Apollo Go doesn’t seem to be very safe yet, see https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1hy72y9/ch..., it seems like they still need safety drivers? Watching the video, I don’t know how much if the ride is just being China (chinese taxi drivers on Chinese roads can make you car sick also), but the tech is obviously not where Waymo is regardless.
by remuskaos | 2025-06-23 13:27:37+00:00
Well the inconvenience is kind of the point. I don't want another app on my phone to allow me to indulge.

The point is that I have to walk, physically move, to the corner where the plug is, push the button and be allowed to procrastinate. That is the design hurdle, not so high as to block completely, but just high enough that I don't get sucked into the endless feed each time I'm bored.

Edit: Also I want the granularity. Ads should always - without exception - be blocked. Social media should be allowed on demand and within the rules.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-06-23 13:27:39+00:00
There is no two octaves below a regular bass guitar. On a 5 string bass, the lowest string is B0 in standard tuning, coming in at 30hz. You can get a long scale length bass and put really chonky strings on it and drop that down as low as E0, which is 20hz, but past that point most people just can't hear the notes anymore.
by Kbelicius | 2025-06-23 13:28:49+00:00
I've done those things.

> But I also recognize that people are human and make mistakes.

But you can't make a mistake while making an illegal U-turn?

> I chose the u-turn after doing my best to ensure I wasn't going to put anyone else at risk

> Should I be fined for that?

Yes. Why do you think that you shouldn't be fined for that?

> How about speeding? Basically everyone speeds right? Let's just auto fine everyone for that all the time.

I'm all for it. What is your problem with that?
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-06-23 13:29:16+00:00
From World War II, the problem with keeping it at your own place was that, if someone overruns your country, your government-in-exile may be able to keep control of gold that is outside your country. Gold that is inside your country, however, is controlled by the invader. (And may be looted by them. Even if you later get your country back, the gold may be gone.)

That exposes you to the risk of the country holding it. But for much of recent history, the US was seen as a lesser risk than a Russian invasion. Whether that is still the way the risks balance... I think we each may hold our own opinion on that.
by LeafItAlone | 2025-06-23 13:29:26+00:00
>So I’m wondering, how do you context switch between many agent running and proposing diffs. Especially if you need to vet the changes.

I’m wondering this too. But from what I have seen, I think most people doing this are not really reading and vetting the output. Just faster, parallelized, vibe coding.

Not saying that’s what parent is doing, but it’s common.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-23 13:29:38+00:00
Nearly every example I've encountered of experts allegedly lying under that rationale was actually a case of the public being effectively illiterate.

E.g. experts saying "we don't know if masks work" (stated over and over) the general public heard as "we know that masks don't work" (I've found exactly one instance of this being stated by a US public health expert, USSG Jerome Adams).
by jasonvorhe | 2025-06-23 13:30:34+00:00
Nice, I was looking around for something like this and found this Android app instead: https://codeberg.org/hermeticvm/linkahest

I started using this last week and it's simple and useful. My main challenge was that I use YT/Reddit/X apps but I hate how the recipients I shared links to posts or videos with often couldn't access it without having to disable ad blockers or having to login first.
by laurentiurad | 2025-06-23 13:30:53+00:00
Revenue is one thing but profit is the most important metric here. I remember when the dot com bubble popped. Back then everything you need to have was a landing page to raise 200 million, but now it's the same to get 2 billion (see this example: https://www.perplexity.ai/discover/finance/mira-murati-s-thi...). It's really the same case but due to the inflation we see higher numbers.
by regularization | 2025-06-23 13:31:10+00:00
> And in a crisis likely won't be useful for buying things that do.

In a crisis, the value of gold holds more than that of the Papiermark, or even the US dollar - I can buy only one egg for the two I could have bought five years ago. Gold is uniform, portable, divisible and durable - useful attributes in a crisis, and worth more than Confederate dollars.

Gold is useful - for filling teeth, for electronic coating. It's value has stayed normal for thousands of years - although in times of inflation or crisis it might become a little overvalued temporarily as people flee to its safety. One could switch to other precious metals like silver, but this happens to them too.
by xcontcom | 2025-06-23 13:31:15+00:00
This project started as a question: is there real chaos in simple symbolic systems? I built a model I expected to behave chaotically - but instead, it generated recursive, self-similar structures. That led me down a rabbit hole of reducing and analyzing the symbolic process, eventually uncovering a fractal sequence: Qₖ = floor(k·√2) mod 2. Would love feedback, questions, or ideas on pushing this further. Article: https://github.com/xcontcom/billiard-fractals/blob/main/docs... Demo: https://xcont.com/binarypattern/fractal_dynamic.html
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-23 13:32:34+00:00
The first Model Is were awful.

The earliest home computers (TRS-80 Model I, Apple ][, Commodore PET) used discrete logic for everything other than the microprocessor and RAM. Next generation machines had custom ASICs for the glue logic, display controller and such which brought costs down.

Modern retro-revival computers like the Commander x16 struggle with this because the conventional wisdom is that you need to ship 10,000 units for it to be worth making an ASIC. A display controller, particularly a color display controller, is conceptually simple, a really fun project in discrete logic, but the part count is absurd and since things like the x16 compete with the Raspberry Pi, the cost is a problem. Turns out to be most cost effective to implement a VDP in software with the ESP32

https://github.com/AgonPlatform/agon-vdp
by ericmay | 2025-06-23 13:33:55+00:00
> Just out of curiosity what do you think I should respond to in your post above?

That's for you to figure out. I've proven my point to my satisfaction.

The last thing I'll say is America rules, greatest country on earth. :)

For your reading and understanding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes?wprov=sfti...
by razemio | 2025-06-23 13:34:05+00:00
I think anti-nato, anti eu, pro russian gas and anti urkraine war aid qualify as pro russian. I get your point, but I think you are wrong? Just read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfD_pro-Russia_movement

AfD has SO many connections to the Kremel. At least a big part of AfD is obiously influenced by russian agenda. BSW is a different topic. They might just align with many points russia likes, but you can not be sure either.

BSW or AfD with power in the Bundestag would be russias wet dream in regards to german politics.
by jcranmer | 2025-06-23 13:34:33+00:00
The success of Linux over BSD has more to do with a lawsuit in the early 90's over whether or BSD infringed on Unix's source code, which made Linux the only viable open source Unix-like operating systems if you had to ask a legal department the question.

Look beyond the OS, and much of the tech stack is dominated by non-copyleft open source projects. Both the major web servers--Apache and nginx--are permissively licensed, for example. Your SSL stacks are largely permissively licensed; indeed, most protocol servers seem to me to largely be permissively licensed rather than copyleft.

And I should also point out a clear example where copyleft has hobbled an ecosystem: Clang and LLVM have ignited a major compiler-based ecosystem of ancillary tools for development such as language servers. The gcc response to this is... to basically do nothing, because tight integration of the compiler into other components might allow workarounds that release the precious goodness of gcc to proprietary software, and Stallman has resisted letting emacs join in this revolution because he doesn't want a dependency on non-copyleft software. An extra cruel irony is that Clang appears to be an existential threat to the proprietary EDG compiler toolchain, which would mean it took a permissive license to do what the goal of the copyleft license was in the first place: kill proprietary software.