Hacker News: Thorentis

New comment by Thorentis in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

Thorentis — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:13:09 +0000

We need a new one: "Where someone is using a vibe-coded internal tool made by the creative department that keeps needing bug fixes, there's a start up waiting to happen."

New comment by Thorentis in "Best of Moltbook"

Thorentis — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 07:52:36 +0000

This project is not clever, interesting, insightful, or beneficial to humanity in any way, save to remind us of what world we are slowly creating by our continued insistence that AI is a good thing.

New comment by Thorentis in "Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds"

Thorentis — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:55:18 +0000

Exactly. People are getting so excited that all this stuff is possible, and forgetting that we are burning through innumerable finite resources just to prove something is possible.

They were too concerned with whether or not they could, they never stopped to think if they should.

New comment by Thorentis in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

Thorentis — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:53:00 +0000

I can't believe that in the face of all the other problems facing humanity, we are allowing any amount of resources to be spent on this. I cannot even see this justifiable under the guise of entertainment. It is beneath our human dignity to read this slop, and to continue tolerating these kinds of projects as "innovation" or "pushing the AI frontier" is disingenuous at best, and existentially fatal at worst.

New comment by Thorentis in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

Thorentis — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:51:10 +0000

This is really cringe

Autonomous language-image generation loops converge to generic visual motifs

Thorentis — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:18:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(25)00299-5?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2666389925002995%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46758334

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Thorentis in "Miami, your Waymo ride is ready"

Thorentis — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:12:54 +0000

Do they have microphones inside the car? How do you know? That "feeling" of privacy probably encourages people to talk more openly, which if there are microphones inside...

New comment by Thorentis in "Parental controls aren't for parents"

Thorentis — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 06:16:05 +0000

Im also coming to the conclusion that video game consoles (and smartphones, and ipads,...) are not for children.

New comment by Thorentis in "Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attracting controversy"

Thorentis — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:27:04 +0000

The phrase "dog whistle" is also itself a dog whistle that signals where you stand on discussing particular issues in the open.

New comment by Thorentis in "AI World Clocks"

Thorentis — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 08:35:47 +0000

The proof is that humans do it all the time and that you do it inside your head as well. People need to stop with this absurd level of rampant skepticism that makes them doubt their own basic functions.

New comment by Thorentis in "Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws"

Thorentis — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 01:58:29 +0000

Companies more likely to want to save money on labor costs (employing many h1bs) are also likely to want to save money on Tooling costs, by using safe options like MSFT stuff, rather than finding better tools.

Also yes, due to availability and various other reasons, H1bs, particularly from India, seem more likely to use a MSFT stack.

New comment by Thorentis in "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway"

Thorentis — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 07:01:46 +0000

Has anybody tried "driving" for one of these companies using GPS spoofing? You could fake the location of your phone. I suppose it'd only work a few times before the number of reports gets you banned, but I wonder whether on a laragr enough (and automated) scale it would be profitable for scammers

New comment by Thorentis in "First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb"

Thorentis — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 21:23:21 +0000

Artificial insulin is akin to medicine, potions, etc, I don't think anybody would consider this grotesque at any point in time

New comment by Thorentis in "Youth and what happens when it's gone"

Thorentis — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:03:02 +0000

The right woman to marry is the one you're married to

New comment by Thorentis in "Youth and what happens when it's gone"

Thorentis — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:01:15 +0000

Yes. People do not want to give up some finite freedoms in exchange for preserving their lineage. This is a very modern and sad problem and the source of so much angst of the middle aged. But of course, most people are too hedonistic and self absorbed to realise this.

New comment by Thorentis in "AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data"

Thorentis — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 23:25:54 +0000

People used to criticise Wikipedia for being bad due to being crowdsourced (at least in school they did). Now, Wikipedia looks like one of the best antidotes to LLMs.

Federal paperwork mine in DOGE's crosshairs

Thorentis — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 22:33:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-retirement-pennsylvania-mine-paperwork-doge-musk-crosshairs-real-2025-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43030490

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Merry Christmas, HN

Thorentis — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:45:57 +0000

Wherever you are, I just wanted to wish all of you a Merry Christmas!

This is a tough time of year for many, but most of us here are extremely fortunate to have the jobs we do (if you're searching, all the best!). Do something kind for somebody to do, and if you have family around, tell them you love them. Life is very short, and these moments are precious.

Thanks for another great year of providing one of the last places I have high confidence I'm not just reading AI slop. Let's hope this place stays that way in 2025!

All the best, and Merry Christmas!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42504776

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by Thorentis in "10-acre underground home and gardens in Fresno (2023) [video]"

Thorentis — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 11:38:06 +0000

The closest thing to minecraft in real life I have ever seen.

New comment by Thorentis in "AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point"

Thorentis — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 00:49:20 +0000

I wonder how much of Wikipedia has been contributed to using AI by now. Almost makes me want to keep a 2023 snapshot of Wikipedia in cold storage.