This sounds like ChatGPT’s voice :)
It really doesn't sound like ChatGPT’s default voice, though it is pretty good at taking on different voices so in a sense you could say that about almost anything. It does use em-dashes, which people have recently started way over-indexing on as a ChatGPT tell, but lots of posters on HN have been using em-dashes for longer than ChatGPT has existed.
It does read like marketing material, though.
It's not just the em-dashes for me. It's actually more these parts:
But here’s the point:
That’s the win:
Those sound exactly like ChatGPT when I tell it to write in a more direct, opinionated style.
It reads like pretty much every piece of tech marketing/evangelism in the last several decades. Which, sure, ChatGPT nails pretty well if you tell it to do that, but... I don't think that has high specificity as a ChatGPT tell.
Generic marketing speak is generic.
I agree with everybody else: it smells like ChatGPT. And I thought this before reading this chain.
Actually, going through their entire profile, it makes it even more obvious:
> Author here. No need to update the resume yet—titles do keep shifting! React’s monolithic style has muddied the waters, making it tough to build clean business logic, prioritize performance, craft CSS design systems, or just focus on user experience. Nue’s here to unblock that—giving each role room to shine with leaner tools, not cramming everyone into the same heavy stack.
> Author here. React’s absolutely mature—no question there, with a skilled team behind it. But the button example highlights something off: a single component outweighing an entire app feels fundamentally broken. There’s clear room for fresh alternatives, especially now. You can see it here on HN—seasoned devs wrestling with React’s wild complexity. Nue’s a stab at fixing that.
Looks like they switch to ChatGPT-mode for most of their Nue replies.
I agree with you this is absolutely ChatGPT output. This should result in instant bans from HN in my opinion. I only come here to hear from human beings.
It does, and it muddies the waters a lot. Why does it read like a sales pitch?
ChatGPT learned that voice from actual people, you know.
And yet, over the last year or two, people using ChatGPT to write their comments stand out like a sore thumb. The overall structure, the specific style of using em-dashes, semicolons, and colons...it's blindingly obvious.
If you just go back a couple months and read OP's comments, they sound very different from everything they've posted today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42734300
To be clear, I don't really care, I use ChatGPT all day every day, but just letting OP know it's often pretty obvious when you have it write for you.
Yep, I read through some of their comments -- it is strange. I would certainly like to see people improve their grammar, punctuation, and general consistency; but, let's face it, people rarely care to.
Call me paranoid (because, let's admit it, I am) but... after all, it's the Internet, and it's 2025! There's been enough controversy about the political power of speech over the past decade alone, that I can see people running their stuff through ChatGPT just to stay on the safe side and make things sound blandly "professional": just so they can avoid being taken the wrong way by a random reader who happens to strongly object to some particular aspect of their communication style.
(Goodness knows I've found myself on either side of all that at different times -- personally, I find it highly inauthentic to make noncommittal "positive" statements in lieu of plain observations. It's absolutely grating; while some other people seem to require it, and can be indeed quite self-contradictorily harsh about it.)
I can definitely see a major use case for LLMs there -- though I do find the implications quite terrifying. Call it political correctness, call it jamming stylometry, call it a day. Either way there's definitely some sort of power differential here that needs to be examined and I think the world is less prepared than ever to confront whatever its meaning turns out to be.
Which brings me to my other point:
>To be clear, I don't really care, I use ChatGPT all day every day, but just letting OP know it's often pretty obvious when you have it write for you.
Now this I don't quite understand. Pointing something out ("letting someone know") generally implies you want someone else to care about that something, even if you honestly don't. So, since you don't care -- why is it that you want others to? Honest question.
Yeah, that was ambiguous. I don’t care if people use ChatGPT to write for them, but don’t be so lazy with it that it’s so obvious and bland.
Would love to get some help on documenting Nue! Crazy amount of work for a non-native English speaker doing both coding and docs.