* All the posts are walls of text. In many of the posts, all of the paragraphs are just about exactly the same length.
* None of the posts contain personal stories, experiences, or anecdotes.
* All of the posts are hyper-focused around advocacy of "old tech" and decentralization. Which is great, but real blogs with this many posts have at least _some_ variation in subject matter and quality. This one's surprisingly uniform.
* The blog is relatively new, posts began about two months ago and there are 17 posts, that's a little over 2 posts a week. Sure, there are bloggers who post that often, sometimes daily, but they are usually much shorter posts, tend to be shorter, or do it for their job.
* The picture of the author on the About page is very obviously AI generated.
* The author has a GitHub account that had virtually no activity until March of this year, and basically all of the commits were co-authored by Claude.
To be clear, I'm sure a real human is behind the site/posts (as opposed to a fully autonomous agent), but I'd bet dollars to donuts that each article started out its life as a very short prompt.
Worse the tools for detecting it have an insane false detection rate. ESL = FP. Good writer = FP. Garbage human slop writer = A'ok.
And, well, neither of us really knows the ground truth. Maybe the guy who has a repo filled with articles co-authored by Claude is actually not posting slop this time and HN users are wrong and Pangram flagging it is just a false positive. But I can't blame anyone for being tired of giving this the benefit of the doubt.
I'm ESL. The mistakes I make are part of what makes me human. If HN'ers are having an allergic reaction at the first hint of slop, it's because we've been drowning in it for months.
The author's picture clearly has an LLM-generated background, (and is a little tacky, IMO.) That being said, I wouldn't dismiss an article merely because someone used an LLM while setting up their blog.
Even has a simple an/a mistake that I doubt a chatbot is going to make.