alt Hacker NewsOne of the most tiring and depressing developments of 2026 is that nowadays, every single discussion relating to every single blog post out there degenerates into a "This is AI slop" accusation fest.
I would be a huge friend of introducing a new rule on the Hacker News that whoever accuses others of using AI and cannot support his accusation by something substantial, gets permabanned.
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ThrowawayR2 • today at 2:04 PM
I, on the other hand, wouldn't support that because it's too often true that the submission is low value AI output.
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The blog goes back to 2007.
Every single post made prior to ChatGPT has a very strong irreverent sense of humour as well as specific Chinese-English phrases. If you speak to Chinese migrants/colleagues/suppliers you'll recognise it immediately:
https://wangcong.org/2009/04/09/got-a-new-job/
https://wangcong.org/2019-03-14-how-to-pretend-to-be-a-linux...
https://wangcong.org/2008/12/25/when-i-was-in-portugal/
Then magically, every single post after the invention of LLMs happens to be structured exactly like the dominant LLM style of the era:
https://wangcong.org/2025-02-27-ebpf-trend-analysis.html
https://wangcong.org/2026-01-13-personal-taste-is-the-moat.h...
https://wangcong.org/2026-06-30-why-i-stopped-arguing-with-p...