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September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy

522 points · 391 comments · marjancek

ergl · 1790759197 · focus · HN ↗
Once again the top submission of HN is an LLM-generated article. I know we're not supposed to speculate on people reading past the title, but I incur you to read 3 paragraphs and tell me with a straight face that you did not eyeroll at every short, empty phrase stated with enormous confidence.
1. pjc50 · 1790761290 · focus · HN ↗
  Generated, or translated from Polish?
  1. DominikPeters · 1790763870 · focus · HN ↗
    The Polish version is also 100% AI on Pangram. <a href="https://www.pangram.com/history/e7fbea77-4556-4dd2-a60f-d6c5b82071f7?ucc=0QldEfZHRAS" rel="nofollow">https://www.pangram.com/history/e7fbea77-4556-4dd2-a60f-d6c5...
    krige · 1790764776 · focus · HN ↗
    Dunno about 100% AI but as a native speaker, it feels very awkward, as if it was a mechanical translation from English.
2. jmiskovic · 1790761841 · focus · HN ↗
  Be careful with this, you'll get burned sooner or later. Short sentences and breaking up the rhythm are often taught as good writing style. The people will also pick up some LLMisms, especially the non-native speakers. I enjoyed this prose, I felt like author had a very personal perspective to share. My AI BS detector didn't spike and I think your post is the over-confident one.
  1. caidan · 1790762175 · focus · HN ↗
    No, this is 100% written by Claude. It reads exactly like it, with all of the same phrasing, awkward sentence construction and other annoyances I have to deal with all day long.
  2. DominikPeters · 1790764188 · focus · HN ↗
    Maybe you don't interact enough with Claude? "Underneath it, three slower clocks are running, and they set the terms on which we meet the next shock.", "A gauge reading is a level against a reference mark, not the depth of the river.", "Two official statements frame everything below.", "where a number rests on a vendor, an advocacy group or an industry estimate, the text says so" were not written by a human.
    peri-cl · 1790768371 · focus · HN ↗
    I vouched for your comment. HN's automod agrees that the OP is LLM text; and it's so high-confidence in its assessment, it flagged your comment, for quoting three lines of it.
    jmiskovic · 1790768646 · focus · HN ↗
    When you pile them up they burn my eyes. I seem to have skimmed through them.
    jere · 1790785136 · focus · HN ↗
    I really appreciate the self reflection. For those of us that see it right away it's bewildering to read defenses of it as simply "good writing style". Even in the very first section it shouts Claude to me. Skimming I can understand.
    The scary thing is that most of these Claudisms can be tuned down easily if that's what Anthropic was trying to do (and may in the future). Then it would be nearly impossible to tell.
3. fragmede · 1790764539 · focus · HN ↗
  In this case, the writer very much doesn't have English as their first language. How's your Polish?
  1. throwaway_7274 · 1790770034 · focus · HN ↗
    I would rather read Polglish or text machine-translated from Polish than Claudese.
4. jampekka · 1790764766 · focus · HN ↗
  I did not eyeroll at every short, empty phrase stated with enormous confidence. :|
  It was a pleasant, concise and informative read. I actually read it from beginning to end. Unlike many of the artisanal articles starting with how the author experienced the crema of the morning's espresso.

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