alt Hacker NewsI strongly recommend the authors rewrite the readme by hand. It’s kind of a snif test for how much care someone put into this project.
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Really? I mean, yeah, it's probably written by an LLM, but it's hardly the worst that I've seen. Looks way more straight forward than the modern README featuring a ton of badges, emojis, confusing out-of-context screenshots, "trust me bro" installation instructions, vague elevator pitches, "used by netflix, nasa, disney, good morning america, alex jones, the church of scientology", and other verbiage to create the illusion that the author won't immediately get bored and abandon their glorified dissertation piece. They all scream "give me your github stars" whereas this one doesn't. But I still get what you mean when it comes to the particular 'isms.
This readme is better than most readmes. However they came to making it, it's clearly working
> Avoid generic tangents.
> Please don't post shallow dismissals
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage.
See: Hacker News Guidelines
Throwing my support for this. Do not use LLMs to write things humans should write.
Agree. The LLM'isms are offputting.