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New comment by SLHamlet in "Honolulu's Airport Has AI Theme Songs. The Internet Is Divided"

SLHamlet — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:18:20 +0000

The Internet is not really "divided" BTW, roughly 99% of Hawai'i locals who know about this seem super pissed off. If you're gonna slopify Hawaiian music at the airport, why not just slopify the entire Hawai'i experience?

Honolulu's Airport Has AI Theme Songs. The Internet Is Divided

SLHamlet — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:29:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.civilbeat.org/2026/04/honolulu-airport-has-ai-theme-songs-the-internet-is-divided/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893292

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Why Gen AI Isn't Quite Cost-Effective at Creating 3D Game Worlds

SLHamlet — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:29:06 +0000

Article URL: https://wjamesau.substack.com/p/why-gen-ai-isnt-quite-cost-effective

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866604

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Startups brag they spend more money on AI than human employees

SLHamlet — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:34:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/startups-brag-they-spend-more-money-on-ai-than-human-employees/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865923

Points: 53

# Comments: 47

The Death of an AI Whistleblower

SLHamlet — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:56:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/open-ai-suchir-balaji-whistleblowers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775593

Points: 35

# Comments: 10

UFOs in the Academy: A Case Study in Stigma and the Edges of Legitimate Science

SLHamlet — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:45:01 +0000

Article URL: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/h5av4_v1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47510595

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by SLHamlet in "The Long Farewell to Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse"

SLHamlet — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:07:58 +0000

Yep. It's wild how most reporters just copy/paste these claims without even asking for references.

Like few of them looked at Meta's own stock earnings reports -- which they CAN'T bullshit about, or they might go to prison -- where it was clear that the Quest was hardly selling.

New comment by SLHamlet in "The Long Farewell to Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse"

SLHamlet — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:41:55 +0000

Grateful I got to tell the NYT what I've been ranting about for years:

“They glommed onto the term ‘metaverse’ without really understanding the concept,” Wagner James Au, author of “Making a Metaverse That Matters,” said in an interview. “Their efforts on their metaverse strategy seemed completely indifferent to what previous platforms had learned.”

Gift link BTW: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/technology/mark-zuckerber...

The Long Farewell to Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse

SLHamlet — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:29:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/technology/mark-zuckerbergs-metaverse-vr-horizon-worlds.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442869

Points: 9

# Comments: 6

New comment by SLHamlet in "Did AI Misidentify the Minab School?"

SLHamlet — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:36:15 +0000

"The US struck nearly 2,000 targets in the first 100 hours of the operation. That list was not generated on the fly but it was built months in advance. But managing, sequencing, and executing 2,000 targets simultaneously across multiple domains still requires algorithmic support that no human coordination chain can match unaided. More importantly: maintaining a database of 2,000+ target records and keeping every single one correctly classified is exactly the kind of task that gets delegated to automated systems..."

Did AI Misidentify the Minab School?

SLHamlet — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:34:29 +0000

Article URL: https://msukhareva.substack.com/p/did-ai-misidentify-the-minab-school

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47302327

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

Study: LLMs Able to De-Anonymize User Accounts on Reddit, Hacker News

SLHamlet — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:33:19 +0000

Article URL: https://wjamesau.substack.com/p/warning-llms-able-to-de-anonymize

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47239350

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by SLHamlet in "Is It All over for Filmmakers?"

SLHamlet — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:48:52 +0000

Last week’s new model was a version 2.0 update of Bytedance’s Seedance video generator. As always, one has the feeling that lies are travelling around the world twice before the truth has time to put its shoes on. So here I am for another debunk.