Hacker News: Hoasi

New comment by Hoasi in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

Hoasi — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:33:08 +0000

To be fair, raising money takes a certain skill, that few people possess; and in many cases, it’s essential for a startup to even exist.

New comment by Hoasi in "Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy"

Hoasi — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:33:12 +0000

Of course, there is no way that a wasteful company like IKEA, that basically sells overpriced plastics and cheap aggregates does actually benefit humanity as a nonprofit implied purpose would. The waste it creates is very substantial on many levels, not even mentioning wasting people’s time and fostering bad taste through short-lived production cycles. Transitioning to a nonprofit obviously has a lot to do with taxes evasion and maybe a little bit of communication posturing too.

New comment by Hoasi in "The End of Eleventy"

Hoasi — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:14:04 +0000

Same here. I have multiple sites working on Jekyll for almost 10 years as well. I’ve considered moving on to other frameworks such as 11ty and tried local versions for the sake of learning and “upgrading”. But in the end Jekyll still works flawlessly and is very easy to maintain. I use a newer version of Ruby though.

New comment by Hoasi in "The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances"

Hoasi — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:24:54 +0000

The erosion and further diffusion of responsibility is the trend that worries me the most, since it’s already how all mid-size organisations, businesses and institutions alike, operate by design, and LLMs are likely to make that much worse.

New comment by Hoasi in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

Hoasi — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:48:58 +0000

Another meaningless, extremely cringeworthy, tweet, hailed as a messianic message by many at the time.

New comment by Hoasi in "Have a fucking website"

Hoasi — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:31:52 +0000

Platforms have always been liabilities. First you trade privacy for convenience, and soon after, you trade ownership for reach, and ultimately you lose both.

Have your own website and re-publish on platforms, if you must.

New comment by Hoasi in "Our approach to age prediction"

Hoasi — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:38:19 +0000

Maybe they should start scanning users' irises.

New comment by Hoasi in "OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions"

Hoasi — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:50:41 +0000

My bet is that there will be ads for both groups. The paid group is arguably more valuable from an advertiser’s standpoint, and you can target heavy users with more granularity.

New comment by Hoasi in "The Influentists: AI hype without proof"

Hoasi — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:14:54 +0000

> The prompts/pipelines are boring and/or embarrassing and showing them will dispel the myth that agentic coding is this mysterious magical process

You nailed it. Prompting is dull and self evident. Sure, you need basic skills to formulate a request. But it’s not a science and has nothing to do with engineering.

New comment by Hoasi in "Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation"

Hoasi — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:18:16 +0000

> I think this is a weird wording. I dont think you need to limit the ick factor to "Westerners" There are an awful lot of people out there who would feel the "ick" factor.

Of course, this has nothing to do with “Westerners.” No one in their right mind would want farm animals to be fed insect powder. The fact that the company was allowed to operate and to receive massive funding is the real issue here.

New comment by Hoasi in "Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation"

Hoasi — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 08:57:10 +0000

“Make something people want” was supposed to be the motto.

New comment by Hoasi in "Inca Stone Masonry"

Hoasi — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:44:26 +0000

Anything goes, these days…

New comment by Hoasi in "Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch"

Hoasi — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:03:11 +0000

LinkedIn is one the most useless app ever. I have trashed it countless times, but I do use it now and ten to keep up with companies and respond to a few solicitations. There is almost never anything of value in my feed, between the fake jobs and the low value self-promotion AI-written posts. Who even reads this? Not even mentioning the political, and pseudo-activist posts. And this happens despite systematically marking all of these posts irrelevant or “inappropriate for LinkedIn”. This app is beyond repair. Uninstalling.

New comment by Hoasi in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

Hoasi — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:46:19 +0000

> Not that their craft would die out, but it would be mutilated

This is spot on, exactly how it felt for illustrators/designers.

With disruptive technologies, the correct response is to use the tools in unintended ways. And thus reappropriate them.

New comment by Hoasi in "Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws"

Hoasi — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:29:17 +0000

So they've missed the innovation train due to regulation, and now they are likely to axe the side-effect benefit of said regulation.

New comment by Hoasi in "Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)"

Hoasi — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:01:14 +0000

> I love the idea of this but the mention of Hedy Lamarr could be confused as parody too

Exactly, that was a bit puzzling.

New comment by Hoasi in "We ran over 600 image generations to compare AI image models"

Hoasi — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:54:11 +0000

Also because it’s mid :)

New comment by Hoasi in "We ran over 600 image generations to compare AI image models"

Hoasi — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:51:23 +0000

> Adobe seems to have gotten the memo though.

So far Adobe AI tools are pretty useless, according to many professional illustrators. With Firefly you can use other (non-Adobe) image generators. The output is usually barely usable at this point in time.

New comment by Hoasi in "Affinity Studio now free"

Hoasi — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:06:29 +0000

Another one bites the dust.

New comment by Hoasi in "Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report"

Hoasi — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:25:33 +0000

But they did ironically also drive the value they offered towards zero in this case ¯\_(ツ)_/¯