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Show HN: A Android Color Detection Auto Clicker with no full-screen ads

1•dopifier•1m ago•0 comments

Berlin power outages after left-wing anarchist attack on power cables

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/01/04/berlin-power-outages-after-left-wing-anarchist...
2•wslh•6m ago•1 comments

Don't Forget the WAL: How I Lost SQLite Data in Podman Containers

https://bkiran.com/blog/sqlite-containers-data-loss
1•thunderbong•7m ago•1 comments

Wanderly AI Travel App Waitlist

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1•CuylerM•8m ago•1 comments

During Helene, I Just Wanted a Plain Text Website

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Agent Orchestration Is Not the Future

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1•mordymoop•20m ago•1 comments

What is Agent context engine

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1•yingfeng•22m ago•0 comments

Tempest Future Fighter Aims for "Extreme Range," Twice F-35 Payload

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1•throwoutway•24m ago•0 comments

Politics and the English Language – George Orwell [Essay]

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and...
2•nomilk•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vho – AST-based analysis for better AI refactoring of large codebases

https://vue-hook-optimizer.vercel.app/
2•huali•29m ago•1 comments

vLLM: An Efficient Inference Engine for Large Language Models

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2025/EECS-2025-192.html
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Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic

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5•arch1e•34m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What app features actually help vocabulary stick long-term?

1•hussein-khalil•35m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Is there a better alternative to email?

1•DinakarS•41m ago•1 comments

AI Safety ArXiv Scraper

https://theguardrail.net/
2•chiwilliams•44m ago•0 comments

Translating Cave Story into Classical Latin with Gemini

https://www.semilin.dev/blog/doukutsu-translator
2•semilin•49m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Made a Gamma Clone with 1 Prompt

https://prompt-to-ppt.lovable.app/
1•nsemikey•49m ago•1 comments

Cool project, will you actually maintain it?

https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/cool-project/
3•ronbenton•49m ago•0 comments

The State of LLMs 2025: Progress, Problems, and Predictions

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The Intelligent Universe: AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos

https://www.setileague.org/reviews/intellig.htm
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Ask HN: Have you been falsely accused of AI-generated content?

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I built my dream terminal based task manager

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Scorg Marketplace – Player-to-Player Trading for Star Citizen Items

1•legitcoders•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a Music-to-Video API

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3•pseudolus•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: PPTX Native AI Slides

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Self-driving cars could prevent over 1M injuries across the US by 2035

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-cars-million-road-injuries.html
3•geox•1h ago•1 comments

On the quantum mechanics of entropic forces

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17575
1•kaycebasques•1h ago•0 comments
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Aristotle's Rhetoric, Strunkified

https://lukebechtel.com/blog/aristotle-rhetoric-strunkified
4•lukebechtel•1d ago

Comments

treetalker•1d ago
Luke, would you mind sharing (here or on your blog) the prompt and model used to generate the text?
lukebechtel•1d ago
certainly. Maybe tomorrow I'll make a post laying it out, but here's how I did it.

I did this using cursor. You can use other methods[1], but I'll describe mine.

1. Grab the text contents of a style guide you like (I used Strunk, which is easily available on internet. Use whatever you like.)

2. Paste that into Cursor as a txt file.

3. Paste your target text into Cursor as another txt file.

4. In the AI Pane, switch your model to Gemini 3 Pro (for its intelligence + long context)

5. Prompt it thusly:

""""""""""""

Can you please create a paragraph-for-paragraph rewrite of NAME-OF-TARGET-TEXT using NAME-OF-YOUR-STYLE-GUIDE?

All the original ideas must be maintained -- we are simply trying to create a version that matches the style guide better. The paragraph ordering must be matched.

Please output this in OUTPUT-FILE.txt

Before doing so, I want you to create a todo list (it will be quite long) of the form:

- Convert Book X Part Y

- Convert Book X Part Z

And so on, exhaustively covering all parts.

You will have to view the entire file to do this.

You must ALWAYS output a new part after the old part, never overwrite.

You must always convert a part, output it, and then move on.

Your flow should be:

(1) view NAME-OF-YOUR-STYLE-GUIDE (if they are no longer visible)

(2) view part of NAME-OF-TARGET-TEXT you're converting

(3) output converted part into OUTPUT-FILE.txt

(4) check it off on your todo list

(5) begin next part

""""""""""""

[1] Though I used cursor, you should be able to script the whole "paragraph for paragraph" thing if you wanted to, which I might do later. (If you do this, let me know!)

treetalker•23h ago
Thanks for responding so fast and thoroughly! I'll give it a whirl and either post here or else email you from your profile if the reply window times out.