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Doom, Played over Curl (github.com)
varun_ch 2 hours ago [-]
One interesting side effect of having a LLM write the thing including the README, is that the models tend to leave little hints of the authors intention or prompt as over-explained passages that make it obvious that AI help was used.

https://github.com/xsawyerx/curl-doom?tab=readme-ov-file#how...

eg. > A browser hitting the same URL gets a tiny landing page that just shows the one-liner

it’s subtle but once you notice it, it’s hard to miss.

As an aside, I feel like projects like this used to be really fun and impressive (I guess due to the fact that you’d think “Wow a human put their time into this wacky crazy thing”), whereas now you can have Claude consistently crap out something like this in 5 minutes, so it ruins the whole appeal to me…

thomasfl 3 hours ago [-]
This is a good template for making terminal based apps that run on remote servers.
fao_ 3 hours ago [-]
> The catch: the shell normally puts the terminal in *cooked mode,*

Yeah, that's not the name of the mode. In this sense, it's "canonical mode". Description reads like AI slop where technical content was reformatted into marketing/PRspeak. It feels like a 30 year old PR representative desperately trying to twist any kind of technical language specifically to pander to the AAVE-derived slang of the younger set of internet-addled minds.

As a result, this does not interest me.

For anyone who is interested in ANSI terminal stuff, or building their own, Lexi Hale had a decent article on this: https://xn--rpa.cc/irl/term.html which got discussion here about eight years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24436860

cmovq 45 minutes ago [-]
Except it’s actually called “cooked mode” [1] and predates the use of the slang.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_mode https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/

bevr1337 2 hours ago [-]
Top comment on the previous thread was someone complaining about the writing style of kids these days. Huh.
2 hours ago [-]
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