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"I asked ChatGPT to critique my book and gave it almost no context"

https://uthiopia.com/chatgpt-literary-critic/
2•YvesMarieStrang•57m ago

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YvesMarieStrang•57m ago
Author here. I gave ChatGPT very little information about the book—just vague prompts asking for its opinion—and it produced what I think is a genuinely interesting reading of the book's structure. I'm not sure whether to call it criticism or mirroring. Curious what HN makes of it. The full conversation is at the link.

(NB: I did provide ChatGPT with a 38 page extract after the initial answer. There are a couple of reviews out there and I have an author website. Nevertheless, I was genuinely surprised (alarmed?) by the subtelty it displayed in teasing out themes that to my knowledge are not available on the web).

Design Drought

https://lmnt.me/blog/design-drought.html
1•robenkleene•34s ago•0 comments

Largest known Roman mosaic, beneath Baths of Trajan, opens to the public

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/14/largest-roman-mosaic-opens-to-the-public
1•bookofjoe•52s ago•0 comments

How to Write an Effective Software Design Document

https://refactoringenglish.com/excerpts/write-an-effective-design-doc/
1•fagnerbrack•1m ago•0 comments

US Energy Data

https://usenergydata.org/
1•ZeroGravitas•1m ago•0 comments

We gave a coding agent the lethal trifecta: data, internet, a public repo

https://archestra.ai/blog/fixing-small-bugs-from-a-slack-thread
1•joeyorlando•2m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built Otis, a minimal AI agent that runs local models out of the box

https://triangllabs.ai/otis
1•petrenk0n•3m ago•0 comments

Emulating Oxide: How Faux Can You Go?

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/emulating-oxide-how-faux-can-you-go
1•tosh•5m ago•0 comments

Fake GitHub Repositories Spreading Malware via PowerShell

https://jdstaerk.substack.com/p/greetings-from-the-rabbids-team
1•DDerTyp•5m ago•0 comments

RISC-V emulator in pure Nix

https://github.com/eisbaw/nix-riscv
1•eisbaw•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Training a sudoku solver from scratch on Jetson Nano

https://github.com/romainzimmer/discrete-reasoning
1•romz•6m ago•0 comments

Portfolio in Pokedex(First Post)

1•shivammahajanma•14m ago•0 comments

React instructors – where do your students get stuck every term?

https://blog.crossui.com/2026/09/every-react-instructor-has-drawn-this-box-diagram
1•linb•15m ago•0 comments

Oracle tries to appease Stargate data center opponents with renewables push

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/oracle-promises-2-gw-of-renewables-to-match-stargate-data...
1•rbanffy•16m ago•0 comments

Why good collaboration can lead us in the wrong direction

https://www.thesignalist.io/s/the-convergence-trap/
2•kodesko•16m ago•0 comments

Temporal Raises $550M at a $12.55B Valuation

https://temporal.io/news/temporal-raises-550m-at-a-12-55b-valuation
1•arusahni•16m ago•0 comments

The Most Advanced Storage System [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QstEkNJhJKo
1•ddechamb•17m ago•1 comments

Zizka AI Called This Already. Now Dario, Musk, and Altman Agree

https://medium.com/@MirArshadTalpur/zizka-ai-called-this-already-now-dario-musk-and-altman-agree-...
1•Arshad-Talpur•20m ago•2 comments

What a time to be alive – rouge AI agents attack RubyGems.org

https://tenderlovemaking.com/2026/09/11/what-a-time-to-be-alive/
9•gregnavis•20m ago•3 comments

Show HN: I built an infinite canvas for game masters

https://overseer.studio
1•nullfish•21m ago•0 comments

Hospitals: The Queue Is Not Always Where the Problem Is

https://gadallon.substack.com/p/hospitals-the-queue-is-not-always
1•JumpCrisscross•21m ago•0 comments

Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/texas-judge-rules-tiktok-misled-users-child-safety-featu...
3•1vuio0pswjnm7•24m ago•0 comments

A letter to the AI labs shouldering the great burden of humanity's survival

https://blog.j11y.io/2026-09-14_a-letter-to-the-ai-labs/
2•ilreb•25m ago•0 comments

Codito.io increases the beta version limits from 50k/250k to 1M/10M codes

https://codito.io/blog/post/increasing-beta-version-limits
1•tomge•25m ago•0 comments

SDR–; open source SDR with a patchable signal graph, Rust DSP, web UI

https://github.com/Newspicel/sdrminusminus
2•newspicel•26m ago•0 comments

When Both Mirror Drives Fail the Same Way

https://marcpaul.io/logs/when-both-mirror-drives-fail-the-same-way/
3•marcbpaul•26m ago•2 comments

Americans spend more than 2.5 hours in the ER

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/25/americans-er-wait-times-data
1•JumpCrisscross•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I'm Serving Esp32s31.fun

12•abu-matterize•32m ago•10 comments

The Physics of Database Speed: from 300 to 1M transactions per second [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOEL_pHFYK0
1•tanaykarnik•33m ago•0 comments

Alexa+ the Next Generation of Alexa

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/new-alexa-generative-artificial-intelligence
1•piqufoh•34m ago•0 comments

Chinese cargo ship makes inaugural journey, reshaping global trade

4•thelastgallon•34m ago•0 comments