Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

I am, and they're all wrong. Some subtly, most horribly. Considering how much information is available out there on the open internet about me, and what I contributed to, these results tell me exactly what these LLMs are useful for: nothing at all.

#algernonReviewsHackerNews

Mkay, I'm going to have to atone for my sins here, but... I'm gonna post what this site's telling me the models say about me. Source here, thread below.

Claude Opus 4.8 says:

Hungarian software developer known in open-source communities, associated with the online handle 'algernon' and keyboard/firmware projects.

Hungarian is correct, online handle is correct, and I do write software. I also contributed to keyboard and firmware projects, yes, but... I'm not sure that'd be what I'm best known for. Not in 2026, at least.

If we go by counting the amount of contributions, then Debian would be where I contributed most, syslog-ng likely second, keyboard firmware third, and then there's iocaine today.

Claude is mostly correct, but almost a decade out of date, I haven't really worked on keyboard firmware since... uhh... 2022 or so?

Claude Haiku 4.5 says:

Hungarian free software developer known for work on syslog-ng and various open-source projects.

Hungarian is correct, free software developer is also more or less correct, syslog-ng likewise, but that's also about a decade out of date.

And well... "various open-source projects".... that applies to pretty much everyone with an account on GitHub. Very precise description. Very useful.

Grok 4.20 says:

Hungarian software engineer and free software hacker, known for maintaining the Notmuch email client and working on the Guix project.

Yeaaaah..... about that. It's accurate until the first comma, and then it's complete bollocks. I don't think I ever contributed anything to notmuch (but I'm a happy user), and my Guix "work" is like... commenting on an issue or two? Would hardly classify that as working on the Guix project.

Maybe this is some other Gergely Nagy? There's a few of us, some of us active in the free software scene.

Kimi K2 0905 says:

Hungarian hacker known for creating the open-source ergonomic keyboard firmware Kaleidoscope and contributing to the Keyboardio Model 01.

First two words are correct. Rest is bullshit. I have not created Kaleidoscope. I contributed to it significantly, helped come up with the name, but I have not created it. I have not contributed to the Model 01 either, only to its firmware.

The closest thing to my contributing to the Model01 was pre-ordering one, and hacking on Kaleidoscope with a janky prototype in hand, to make sure it has good firmware once it ships.

Deepseek v4 says:

Hungarian software developer and open-source contributor, known for work on the FOSDEM conference.

What. I've been to FOSDEM twice (I think? Maybe only once? My memory is hazy). As a visitor.

Mistral 3.2 24B says:

Hungarian software engineer known for contributions to open-source projects and technical writing.

Technical writing? Uhm. I do have a blog, I guess... does that qualify?

Very precise description again. Could be literally anyone.

@algernon in my mind you're still primarily known for keyboard firmware.

Also, look at your avatar.

@wolf480pl Noted, tooting about iocaine will increase! ;)

As for my avatar: I'm a hacker, I type. Doesn't mean I have anything to do with keyboards other than typing on them! Yes, it's a fancy Model 01, but... also: look at those glasses. Those glasses are awesome. Great beard too. algernon nods sagely

@algernon does literate programming count as technical writing? 🤔

@wolf480pl According to a small sample of my readers, it counts more as incomprehensible drivel. O:)

@algernon
good point... how much for the beard?

@wolf480pl Not for sale, sorry. Had it since I graduated high-school. (High-school allowed moustache, but not beard, so I had to wait like 3 long years...)

@algernon i just checked my own name (https://www.intheweights.com/p/mina-gali~107~) and uh, it's… very not me.

phew

@algernon
the first of the "possible hallucinations" is…

Name associated with individuals in South Slavic-speaking regions; no single widely recognized public figure is identifiable from the query alone.

harsh.

@meena I'd give half a limb¹ if models didn't know anything about me. Staying in the shadows on today's internet is somewhat difficult! I opted out of search engines too late.

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1. Not mine, would borrow one from a billionaire on grounds of fair use and the fact that they didn't opt out. ↩︎

@algernon Are You in the Slop? Find out now!

@petko I have my fingerprints all over The Slop™®© too. BUT THE EVIDENCE IS ALL PLANTED!

@algernon I'm surprised you're the top result given how common you said your name was

@algernon It says I’m a “california real-estate developer” by real name and the results for my username aren’t much better. The top result is “open source software contributor”, which is accurate but the details aren’t (it says I’m the maintainer of the GNU assembly site (I have nothing to do with the GNU assembly), and “a twitter/x account”), other results are “mastodon technology poster” (I do post about technology but akkoma isn’t mastodon), “minecraft twitch streamer” (I don’t stream on twitch or play minecraft), and “tiktok and twitter personality” (I don’t use twitter or tiktok). Grok’s answer is the only one that doesn’t contain something that is obviously untrue (“notably active on github” is subjective - I don’t like github and avoid it when possible, but nevertheless use it sometimes).

@noisytoot I'm Very Online. Most of my namesakes are smarter, and aren't. O:)

@algernon I tried:

My usual placeholder name: plausible nonsense
My usual handle: blatantly wrong nonsense as there are authoritative sources for what that word means online
My actual name: split between incorrect discussion of my insignificant Linux work and something I'm reasonably sure is mostly wrong about the person I'm aware of who shares my name.

@algernon apparently I’m a singer/songwriter. The only source I can find for this is uncyclopedia.

@algernon on behalf of Haiku, the OS, and everyone else who has also worked on "various open-source projects", myself included, I feel very insulted for you.