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Near-Instantly Aborting the Worst Pain Imaginable with Psychedelics

https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/near-instantly-aborting-the-worst
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Show HN: Nginx-defender – realtime abuse blocking for Nginx

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The Super Sharp Blade

https://netzhansa.com/the-super-sharp-blade/
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Smart Homes Are Terrible

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/smart-homes-technology/685867/
1•tusslewake•4m ago•0 comments

What I haven't figured out

https://macwright.com/2026/01/29/what-i-havent-figured-out
1•stevekrouse•5m ago•0 comments

KPMG pressed its auditor to pass on AI cost savings

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1•cainxinth•5m ago•0 comments

Open-source Claude skill that optimizes Hinge profiles. Pretty well.

https://twitter.com/b1rdmania/status/2020155122181869666
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First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
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I squeezed a BERT sentiment analyzer into 1GB RAM on a $5 VPS

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Kagi Translate

https://translate.kagi.com
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Building Interactive C/C++ workflows in Jupyter through Clang-REPL [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QX3RPH-building_interactive_cc_workflows_in_jupyter_throug...
1•stabbles•11m ago•0 comments

Tactical tornado is the new default

https://olano.dev/blog/tactical-tornado/
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Full-Circle Test-Driven Firmware Development with OpenClaw

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/07/full-circle-test-driven-firmware-development-with-openclaw/
1•ptorrone•13m ago•0 comments

Automating Myself Out of My Job – Part 2

https://blog.dsa.club/automation-series/automating-myself-out-of-my-job-part-2/
1•funnyfoobar•13m ago•0 comments

Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgjg98vmzjo
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Dependency Resolution Methods

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/06/dependency-resolution-methods.html
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Crypto firm apologises for sending Bitcoin users $40B by mistake

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Show HN: iPlotCSV: CSV Data, Visualized Beautifully for Free

https://www.iplotcsv.com/demo
1•maxmoq•15m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/06/no-such-thing-as-tech/
1•headalgorithm•15m ago•0 comments

List of unproven and disproven cancer treatments

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Me/CFS: The blind spot in proactive medicine (Open Letter)

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Ask HN: What are the word games do you play everyday?

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https://paperinvest.io/arena
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The Devil Inside GitHub

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Show HN: Distill – Migrate LLM agents from expensive to cheap models

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Make a local open-source AI chatbot with access to Fedora documentation

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Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model by Mitchellh

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
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Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
1•mellosouls•27m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Non-native speaker here – how to avoid sounding like ChatGPT?

2•haebom•1mo ago
I've been active on HN for years, but lately I keep getting comments saying "this reads like AI" or "ChatGPT wrote this, right?"

At first, I thought it was a compliment – like my English was really polished. But I've realized it's actually an insult, suggesting my contribution isn't genuine. Here's the thing: English isn't my native language. I've worked hard to write clearly and logically. But now I'm worried that being too grammatically correct or structured makes me sound artificial.

What specifically makes writing "sound like AI" to you? Is it:

- Too formal/polite?

- Overly structured (intro-body-conclusion every time)?

- Certain phrases or patterns?

- Lack of casual tone?

I genuinely want to contribute to discussions here, but I don't want people dismissing my comments as bot-generated. Any specific advice for a non-native speaker trying to sound more human?

Comments

haebom•1mo ago
++ I'm a native Korean speaker, fluent in Japanese, learned English in high school and polished it during a college exchange program. Maybe that's part of why my writing feels "off" to native speakers?
allears•1mo ago
Your English is excellent -- a bit too excellent, perhaps, when many native English speakers are inconsistent about grammar and spelling. Also, there's an informal, slightly sarcastic tone that people use online that differs from the typical AI output.
haebom•1mo ago
If you have time, I'd appreciate it if you could check my recent comment history. I got into a discussion where several users kept insisting I was using AI to write my responses. Even after I repeatedly explained I wasn't, they didn't believe me. That's what prompted this post.
turtleyacht•1mo ago
Link? Not seeing anything stand out from https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=haebom
rawgabbit•1mo ago
Hi. I have not read many of your posts so do not have any direct feedback. As far as not sounding like LLM generated text, I believe the best way is to write concretely and to the point. ChatGPT is long winded and avoids saying anything specific. It is like listening to a politician talking for an hour and you realized he did not take a stance on anything.
JojoFatsani•1mo ago
Don’t use bulleted lists for one thing
gus_massa•1mo ago
Looking at your old comments, as a general recommendation in HN, avoid short comments. Try to write like 2 or 3 sentences. Not fillers, interesting sentences. Very short comments are usually not good for HN, but this is not a hard rule, there are plenty of exemptions.

Do you have a example where someone called you AI?

I make a lot of mistakes, but I'm a native Spanish speaker. [Hi from Argentina!] I probably use too many latin-rooted words. Luckily no AI decided to pretend to be a time traveler from Rome.