Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning
This article is currently an experimental machine translation and may contain errors. If anything is unclear, please refer to the original Chinese version. I am continuously working to improve the translation. TL;DR & Demo As of early 2026, mainstream LLM-generated text exhibits strong statistical patterns that can be effectively distinguished from human-written content using traditional […]
56,000 lines of DOOM, in a language I made up
I built bet on a break from trying to make something that sells. I wanted a project with a clear edge to it, one I could actually finish, and building a compiler had been on my list for a long time. A joke language gave me the excuse: keywords that read like a group chat, […]
Decoy Font
What is Decoy Font? Decoy font is a font that prints a decoy for every letter, making it more difficult for AI to read what you type. The font works by using separate spatial frequencies to communicate two different letters in the same space. The foreground contains thin outlines, while the background is a low-frequency […]
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
We introduced NotebookLM at Google I/O 2023 as Project Tailwind with a simple goal: help people learn. Since then, more than 30 million people and over 600,000 organizations are using it to transform how they work, from business owners creating interactive onboarding materials to students converting notes into audio and video summaries. Today, we’re renaming […]
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
The chat client that brought Comic Sans to the world is now on GitHub Today, we’re excited to announce the open-source release of Microsoft Comic Chat, the chat client that automatically turned conversations within Internet Relay Chat (IRC) into comic panels featuring illustrated characters, speech bubbles, and expressions, and helped introduce the world to a […]
Guide to data tools landscape for developers
Some time ago, I joined Deepnote as a software engineer. Deepnote makes a cloud notebook for data teams. I, however, didn’t have any background in data. But I knew what a notebook was and I thought it would be interesting to work on this kind of project. I didn’t think the data field was that […]
Show HN: AI Law Tracker – one audited API for US, EU and global AI law
HR 9706To require operators of wagering or prediction market platforms to use facial recognition technology to verify the age of users of such wagering or prediction market platforms, and for other purposes. Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined […]
How to spend 15 years perfecting a product
Hi! It’s Alex, creator of Refactoring.Guru. A few weeks ago, I emailed you about my new project GitByBit. This is its origin story: how an indie dev with no team, no ad budget, and one aging traffic source tried to build something useful while the dev world was being torn and rearranged all around the […]
Sony Deletes a Bunch More Movies from the Accounts of People Who ’Bought’ Them
from the poof-it’s-gone dept In all of our discussions about how the digital revolution has created a system in which people don’t actually own the things they think they’re buying, I get particularly frustrated by the lack of change in it all. We’ve spilled much ink complaining that this clearly anti-consumer practice needs to be […]
The Act and the Outcome of Creation
Creation is the ultimate form of pursuing ourselves, giving to the world when shared, and using the power of our subconscious. It gives us joy, and to every artist, it is the ultimate (flow) state of happiness. The Act of Creation The act of creation is an outlet. It gives joy to us when we […]