Rousseau: "Je sens que ce n’est pas à des esclaves qu’il appartient de raisonner de liberté."

comme je me le rappelle à chaque fois que je lis des commentaires sur #hackernews @newsycombinator

#hn

Still surprised by HN staunch distaste for AI slop, while Lobsters keeps inventing new victim cards to let these grifters operate.

#ai #lobsters #hn

just saw that something i wrote is frontpage on HN so i'm about to get called stupid and AI x100 lol. excited to see the discourse though

#tech #hn you cruel mistress

“I’ve been meanwhile watching these #AI companies attempt, successfully, to sell this capability as some sort of robot consciousness hand-crafted by supergeniuses.

The fact that they are getting away with it is almost as shocking to me as the discovery itself.” — malwrar on #HN

#LLM / #OpEd / #observation <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389360>

Mildly Parboiled

Allergy season is finally fading (at least for me), but today was the first time I had to turn on the AC in the office, and it was great to realize that despite the recent Wi-Fi ch(...)

#burnout #exercise #health #hn #life #mentalhealth #remote #twitter #wellbeing #x

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/05/28/1356?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

“OpenAI is offering $2M in #tokens to every #YC company in the spring and summer batches.

We extended the summer deadline to May 25 so more #founders can get in on it.” — <https://x.com/ycombinator/status/2057555656673210639>

From your favourite “Orange site”, tokens.

If you capture #startup founders, you capture the future. Are founders aware of ‘user capture’ through API’s? Have founders not learned from news about Sam, ie OpenAI?

Do they listen to #PG?

#OpenAI / #AI / #HN <https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted> / <https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sam+altman+lies&ia=web>

"This weekend I plan to prepare one of my grandmother's favorite Italian family pasta recipes ... but in Rust!"

Show HN: A New Way of Specifying Software Behavior in A Subset of English in Markdown Files We Call "Prompting Language" (WARNING: Not Safe For Production Use!) (UPDATE: Acquired By Allbirds For $1B, Backed By Promises To Repay Nvidia $2B Next Tuesday)

Anonymous Foreign Bot Convinces One Thousand Fools To Type "curl -fsSL [url] | sudo bash" Then Rando Russian/Chinese Twentysomething Retires To Luxury Yacht Purchased Via Bitcoin Heist

Guys, Am I Cool Enough? Please Validate Me, Guys!

-- Hacker News, parody/reality (line there blurs increasingly)

#HackerNews
#HN
#YC
#YCombinator

Thought provoking quote on the “why” of design (in reaction to Claude Design) by #HN user pilgrim0:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808702

ending with this :

_“ I feel sorry for anyone that will think using tools equals doing design, because of the truly marvelous human experiences that they’ll miss, and that could never be replaced by the shallow pride of empty achievement.”_