Hacker News: ablation

New comment by ablation in "Poisoned Google SERPs"

ablation — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:57:44 +0000

Claudeslopped site design and information layout makes me dubious of the information conveyed.

New comment by ablation in "Fable Took My Job"

ablation — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:03:28 +0000

The animal cartoons are also incredibly off-putting. I don't get it.

New comment by ablation in "The Mathocalypse"

ablation — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:23:12 +0000

So many exclamation points!

New comment by ablation in "A map of every lighthouse"

ablation — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:32:23 +0000

Zoom/scroll/pan is utterly broken. Which is a shame as the idea is novel, if only it weren't Claudeslopped.

New comment by ablation in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

ablation — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:17:38 +0000

I'm not sure I'd call it grim, per se. Blood Meridian takes that label for me, almost at the exclusion of all else in what could loosely be called the "western" genre. Lonesome Dove is more just very... gritty. And packs a serious emotional heft. Great book either way.

New comment by ablation in "Mysterious 'UFO' spotted on SpaceX livestream"

ablation — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:41:06 +0000

Daily Mail articles should just be blacklisted on here. It's a clickbait ad farm.

New comment by ablation in "Special Projects (2016)"

ablation — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:04:32 +0000

"The people on top desperately want us gone, and when it happens it'll happen so quickly you won't know what hit you. Software engineers need to recognize this common threat and organize (labor) sooner than later. Even more important is for all engineers to plan for an imminent future where developers are not paid like they are now, if at all. We have it good, but we will be automated away like everybody else, just a little later."

- superswordfish on July 28, 2016

New comment by ablation in "The DeepMind Institute"

ablation — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:31:35 +0000

Astroturfing. Surprisingly effective in this case.

New comment by ablation in "Archiving pirate radio station Kool FM"

ablation — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:22:00 +0000

Wow, fantastic. Thank you. Just started listening to the podcast.

New comment by ablation in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

ablation — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:20:59 +0000

Long overdue. Matt needs to get some professional help or support, some of his actions have been incredibly harmful to the WordPress community.

New comment by ablation in "Foldable iPhone took 10 years to design"

ablation — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:39:01 +0000

I would say more of a fold.

New comment by ablation in "AI Giants Work Hand-in-Hand with The Pentagon, Contracts Reveal"

ablation — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:18:02 +0000

Gasp! I don't believe it!

New comment by ablation in "The creators of Dark Sky have a new weather app that shares multiple predictions"

ablation — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:29:59 +0000

Subscription? No thanks.

New comment by ablation in "France, Saudi Arabia agree on €6B Dragon Ball Z theme park project near Paris"

ablation — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:40:13 +0000

Sentences I was wasn't expecting to read today: "The idea was born after French President Emmanuel Macron and the Saudi crown prince discovered a shared enthusiasm for Dragon Ball Z during Macron’s visit to Saudi Arabia in 2025"

New comment by ablation in "Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War"

ablation — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:10:07 +0000

That one job was to process "sensitive" intelligence intercepts and break codes, if you're not grabbed by the clickbait headline. It's a good read.

New comment by ablation in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

ablation — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:08:11 +0000

M1 Pro 32gb RAM. I still have absolutely no reason to upgrade.

New comment by ablation in "Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are"

ablation — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:03 +0000

It's eye-bleedingly Claudeslopped.

New comment by ablation in "Not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly"

ablation — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:58:10 +0000

The people and organisations perpetuating these crimes against humanity are not anonymous. They have names, addresses, shareholders, boards, lobbyists. They should be named and shamed. Part of me fears that we will soon be unable to do so openly or effectively, with the rise of censorship and surveillance and looming control of public discourse. It's hard not to fall victim to hopelessness sometimes. I'm trying.

New comment by ablation in "WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale"

ablation — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:36:45 +0000

Again, that Claude web design aesthetic is just seemingly everywhere right now. It takes me out of what I'm reading as soon as you see the tells.

New comment by ablation in "Discovery Loop"

ablation — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:23:05 +0000

Absolutely reeks of Claude. This is the new aesthetic.