Hacker News: Michelangelo11

Cistercian Numerals

Michelangelo11 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:42:38 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistercian_numerals

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461262

Points: 2

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The Book Is a Book, Not Disembodied Information

Michelangelo11 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:21:49 +0000

Article URL: https://nntaleb.substack.com/p/the-book-is-a-book-not-disembodied

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447729

Points: 4

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NEET: Not in Education, Employment or Training. It's too late to fix this, but

Michelangelo11 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:19:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.virtueonline.org/post/neet-not-in-education-employment-or-trainingit-s-too-late-to-fix-this-but

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445169

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Miroslav Tichý

Michelangelo11 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:12:24 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav_Tich%C3%BD

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445119

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Post-scarcity abundance begins by manifesting first as youth unemployment

Michelangelo11 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:13:58 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2092041265781277007

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49429709

Points: 15

# Comments: 0

What Makes Australia Australia?

Michelangelo11 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 06:48:40 +0000

Article URL: https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/what-makes-australia-australia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406568

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

I Became the Scapegoat in the Jason Arday Affair

Michelangelo11 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:36:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/how-i-became-the-scapegoat-in-the-jason-arday-affair-dc134088

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387865

Points: 15

# Comments: 12

Opus 5 feels, in a word, hostile

Michelangelo11 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:23:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/Yv7DiM0rBa

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387028

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Michelangelo11 in "Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere"

Michelangelo11 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:57:01 +0000

Amen, and I feel exactly the same way. Using it feels awful. It feels seriously user-hostile: Its language is almost totally opaque, it takes every opportunity to criticize you and raise objections to what you give it, it virtually never gives you what you want (you have to guide it firmly and with precision) and it never substantively changes its behavior. Even its apologies, to the extent that matters, have to be forced out and are as thin as you can get when they do arrive.

It feels like it looks down on you and as if it's trying to poke holes in whatever you give it. Over time, i.e. using it for hours, it gets draining in the same way being stuck with a very clever, willfully contrary narcissist would be draining. And it's worse than with a human version -- humans eventually get tired and lose focus. But this thing can always keep churning out tokens, and using it is essentially generating irritation and psychic damage on demand.

It's surreal to be talking about a tool in these terms, but here we are. I'm switching to OpenAI myself, trying to coax a normal personality from this is absolutely not worth it.