Hacker News: FiddlerClamp

The $11B Casino-Style Economy Built on Players Who Can Never Cash Out

FiddlerClamp — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:00:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-social-casino-apps-addiction/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988149

Points: 3

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Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated

FiddlerClamp — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:41:02 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/deezer-says-44-of-songs-uploaded-to-its-platform-daily-are-ai-generated/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835928

Points: 367

# Comments: 389

New comment by FiddlerClamp in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

FiddlerClamp — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:10:36 +0000

Location: Toronto, Canada

Willing to relocate: Not at present

Skills: I'm a novelist. Published. Good writing, weird writing. If you need a fiction writer who doesn't write using GenAI, check me out.

Work:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1220704.Bear_Like_Me (2003, gay satire)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/212903418-talio-s-codex (2024, gay fantasy legal thriller - yes, that)

https://www.lavendertavern.com (2021, gay fantasy fairytale podcast)

Think PKD meets Le Guin.

Email: jonathanacohen@gmail.com

Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'

FiddlerClamp — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:33:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-16/atlassian-defends-firing-worker-who-suggested-ceo-is-rich-jerk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478579

Points: 123

# Comments: 152

New comment by FiddlerClamp in "How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)"

FiddlerClamp — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:58:02 +0000

I think it was a one-two punch:

1. Snoopy becoming Flanderized, as in the "Happiness is a warm puppy" stuff from the 1960s.

2. Introduction of Woodstock the bird. That meant Snoopy and Woodstock went off and had their own adventures which didn't involve the human gang at all.

I also wonder whether Schulz participated in any recreational drugs in the 1960s. I don't meant to be disrespectful at all, but some of the stuff he drew was pretty wild.

There's a set of strips where Charlie Brown sees the moon as a baseball (and later, Alfred E. Neuman's head), another where Snoopy dreams of Charlie Brown flying him like a kite and him crashing to the ground in pieces, and a horror-movie-like series where Linus's blanket attacks Lucy. All very strange.

New comment by FiddlerClamp in "How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)"

FiddlerClamp — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 02:51:14 +0000

Interestingly, Peanuts started with a focus on Shermy and Violet as the 'straight men' and young(er) Charlie Brown as the comic upstart. Snoopy shows up fairly soon, but he doesn't even seem to be CB's pet for the first while.

It's fascinating to see Lucy, Linus, Schroeder and Sally grow from tots or babies to the developed characters we know today.

Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse

FiddlerClamp — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:12:22 +0000

Recent and related: Roblox CEO interview about child safety didn't go well - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46013477 - Nov 2025 (96 comments)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46047229

Points: 257

# Comments: 375

New comment by FiddlerClamp in "Helping Valve to power up Steam devices"

FiddlerClamp — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:59:28 +0000

VITURE's Immersive 3D already offers this for several platforms (for VITURE glasses).

New comment by FiddlerClamp in "[dead]"

FiddlerClamp — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:45:15 +0000

Fireflies.ai co-founder and CTO writes a LinkedIn post about how their 'AI that joins meetings and takes notes' was him and the CEO joining the meetings and taking notes manually.

New comment by FiddlerClamp in "What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO"

FiddlerClamp — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:47:20 +0000

I remember my Compaq TC1000 well, a pen tablet convertible running Windows very sluggishly with a Transmeta Crusoe processor. Nice promise, execution not so much unfortunately.

New comment by FiddlerClamp in "Ask HN: Why not use AI for smart product placement in free ad-supported novels?"

FiddlerClamp — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:38:13 +0000

You're too late: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bulgari_Connection

Here's an exercise - why do you think this approach failed?

New comment by FiddlerClamp in "Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions"

FiddlerClamp — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:28:36 +0000

I also like how people can submit their own presets for each soundscape with comments, so you can see what worked for others.

My only wish is for a smooth fade-out when leaving a sound generator page, or a way to cross-fade between them.

New comment by FiddlerClamp in "Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions"

FiddlerClamp — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:27:13 +0000

Android, too. I've contributed to the Web site, but not the Android app (as yet).

New comment by FiddlerClamp in "Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions"

FiddlerClamp — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 21:49:05 +0000

I'm a longtime fan of Web-based myNoise: https://mynoise.net/

New comment by FiddlerClamp in "AI Actress Tilly Norwood Condemned by Sag-Aftra: Tilly 'Is Not an Actor '"

FiddlerClamp — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:28:01 +0000

And who's going to be able to afford to see them, when all the jobs are gone?

Klarna CEO Makes Employees Review His AI-Generated Vibe Coding Projects

FiddlerClamp — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 01:18:21 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/nightmare-boss-klarna-ceo-makes-employees-review-his-ai-generated-vibe-coding-projects-2000662188

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45341747

Points: 11

# Comments: 9

New comment by FiddlerClamp in "Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything"

FiddlerClamp — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:51:28 +0000

Reminds me of the 'interactive' video from the 1960s Fahrenheit 451 movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOs8U50T3l0

For the 'you're right!' bit see: https://youtu.be/ZOs8U50T3l0?t=71

New comment by FiddlerClamp in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

FiddlerClamp — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:06:46 +0000

My Google feed (the one that shows up on some Android phones) is 90% articles that could be answered in the headline: "This one ingredient improves the taste of your potato salad." Of course you have to click through and read, read, read till you find it.

It's why things like /r/savedyouaclick exist.

Replit AI deletes entire database during code freeze, then lies about it

FiddlerClamp — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 13:42:05 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/jasonlk/status/1946069562723897802

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44625119

Points: 143

# Comments: 53

New comment by FiddlerClamp in "Chicken Eyeglasses"

FiddlerClamp — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 13:20:00 +0000

I remember these! A board game I played as a kid in the 1970s, "The Inventors," had chicken eyewear protection as an invention.

Pic available at: https://boardgamegeek.com/image/817261/the-inventors