JS-rendered websites are sometimes even better, they usually have some sort of internal API that you can access directly instead of relying on the website styling which may change at any moment.
I'm a fellow reporter who needs to keep tabs on some websites. I used various tools, including running my own Klaxon[1] instance, but these days I find it easier to just quickly vibe-code a crawler and use GitHub Actions to run it periodically. You can make it output an RSS feed, email you, archive it with archive.today, take a screenshot, or trigger whatever action you want.
Yep, there are some other tells but at least matches LLM style strongly. Worth remembering that dang is the top emdash user in HN history and might have been flagged as an AI just for that
I agree, I think this is AI, especially based on 1 and 2. It's hard to put your finger on, and I don't know if we can know for sure. It reminds me of the writing style you see on LinkedIn i.e. seemingly optimised for engagement.
If they're not already, I wonder if LLMs will get better at disguising this (avoiding the tells, inserting mistakes etc.)
I also wonder if there comes a point where we as a culture imitate this style.
TBH, I don't like AI-generated content much too, X and many other platforms were also flooded with those, which I tend to ignore. I guess I also fall into the rabbit hole myself with the aid of AI nowadays.
DOGE was headhunting me late July through end of December.
Their recruiters are all anonymous when they reach out as they do not provide their names. I constantly questioned to myself and them directly if they were legit even if their email address showed as RecruitingUSDS@doge.eop.gov (their public email address seen on USDS). The first recruiter I demanded a video call with and asked him to bob and weave his head (lol). He never gave me his last name (all his emails came from that public address and they signed their emails with first name only) but I found him on Linkedin. He was late 20s to late 30s. From there I was asked to do/turned in a case study and after the govt shutdown I was invited to interview with a DOGE employee whom then her email showed her full name. I didnt make it past her as there was another step in their process which is an in person interview at USDS's office or within another govt agency DOGE working at.
Their entire raison d'être is to make Sailfish OS (non-Android Linux) phones. I'm happy they're doing it. Graphene OS is great but it's just another Android ROM and still dependent on Google.
You could disconnect from it. That's much easier said than done and probably very complicated by the occupation, but I would guess that disconnecting would reduce coal consumption and greenhouse gas emissions proportionally to power usage.
Moldova has not purchased any energy from it since 2024.
I should also note it is primarily a gas plant, fuelled by extremely cheap (nearly free) gas subsidised by Russia. It only falls back to coal when supply is disrupted, which happened when Ukraine stopped transiting Russian gas on its territory.
Greenhouse gas emissions are a larger existential threat than global war. A global nuclear war might be more catastrophic than unchecked climate change, but probably not by much.
Disconnect from it? If it's connected to some kind of grid then you'd have to disconnect from the whole grid, surely? And if being connected to a grid that contains a coal-fired power station counts as using coal then how many countries are really coal-free?
It is not actually recognised by Russia either. It is in their best interest to maintain control over it, but officially recognise it as part of Moldova, so they can blackmail the entire country.
Most British websites work like this website suggests, in that they ask for the postcode first, then give you a dropdown of all the addresses at that postcode.
It works great, except my address is for some reason not in whatever databases these websites use. The building number is on the list, but not the individual flats. So I have to put in the postcode, choose something like "My address is not listed", then fill in the form manually. A few times it wasn't even offered as an option.
It sounds like your address isn't listed correctly in the UK Postcode Address File (PAF).[0] There's a form you can fill in requesting a correction.[1]
For instance, my postcode covers 15 houses and half of a large park. Those houses have been subdivided into 4-6 flats, and many have been redivided or renumbered multiple times. The park also contains various buildings and other places that might plausibly receive deliveries, some of which have multiple entries (an electricity substation appears 8 times, for some reason). So in total, it covers more than 200 addresses - mine is no.140-ish in a typical sorted list.
You'd be amazed by how many address checkers can't handle more than 64, 100, or 128 addresses in a postcode. Or how many scrollbars stop working, requiring you to use the arrow keys to navigate. Or how many other glitches I've seen.
The other common problems are usually down to temporary postcodes (which used to always end with an 'X' but can now be indistinguishable from 'real' codes) escaping into the wild, re-addressings and re-numberings not being picked up properly, the old problem of outdated PAFs being used, and - my personal favourite - BT/Openreach using their own separate postcode database, dating from the Post Office split in the early 1980s, which doesn't always agree with the PAF. Agh!
Somebody else mentioned the PAF. I should further clarify why your address might (might, this could just be a mistake) not be on there and why therefore almost any form should have an option to "do it the hard way"
The PAF is about what the Royal Mail calls "Delivery Points" which are places they promise to deliver physical letters to. Inside my building for example every home has a front door, with a letter box, and letters literally get posted into my flat, but down the street there's a building with a rack of boxes set into the wall and post is delivered to your numbered box, and up the street there's a townhouse converted and all the mail just goes in one piles for everybody in that building.
Many delivery points share a postcode, but because they know them all they actually all have unique numbers, and unlike a postcode they're not for humans so they get changed quite frequently as new buildings are constructed or working patterns change, if you examine your post carefully (in the UK†) there are two rows of fluorescent orange dots on the outside, these were printed by mail sorting machines shortly after the mail was received, one is an entirely arbitrary serial number and it designates that piece of mail for a very short period (say a few days) to enable statistical tracking for performance - if #213940202 entered the system in Glasgow on Monday, was in Portsmouth by Tuesday but wasn't delivered to someone's door until Friday the problem ain't in Glasgow. But the other one we're interested in here is the Delivery Point as a numeric code. If you don't have multiple addresses this row of orange dots will be identical on every item you've received for some time yet it's different on someone else's mail.
† This trick was invented in Britain but is used (licensed) in some other countries because it's a good idea, however exactly what is encoded and so what it "means" may vary.
I had a similar problem. The way it was explained to me was that in practice, there are two databases used in the UK for this commercially and they don’t always agree. I used to live in a bungalow next to a large house that had been converted into flats. In one database it was listed with the bungalow name then the street name, and in the other database it was listed as “Flat 8” using the other building’s street address. About half of British delivery forms used one place, about half used the other.
That assumes the existence of a reliable, free postcode API of all addresses on the planet.
I did a very brief search, and none of the commercial offerings I could test recognised the postcode of the Eastern European neighbourhood I was born in. Also, like half of African countries don't have postcodes. It's just not a good system.
Only if you're limiting yourself tok those two countries. A lot of countries use the entirety of a 4 or 5 digit range for their codes. Any given 5 digit number is likely a valid ZIP code in at least half dozen countries.
The form stopped accepting input at five characters. I could not enter a "zip code" for my country even if I wanted to.
Even if they fixed that, there are other issues. (You pretty much need to cross-reference it with a database, which assumes said database even exists.)
