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New comment by ai_critic in "Baby's Second Garbage Collector"

ai_critic — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:40:51 +0000

If the prose is too much for you, any number of AI services will pre-chew it and give it to you devoid of voice, character, or offense.

New comment by ai_critic in "Sora: A Solution Without a Problem"

ai_critic — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:56:46 +0000

Sora was just a bad product, and the pivot in Sora 2 to be some kind of weird social tool with leaderboards and whatnot was a mistake that probably seemed like a good idea to somebody who wasn't good at their job.

Product management at OpenAI appears listless and flaccid and out-of-touch.

More serious tooling and improvements to the original storyboard interface, better ways of doing clip management, better interfaces period would've probably helped adoption...but instead, they settled for some weird pastiche of social stuff with "characters" and other crap.

Alignment Whack-a-Mole

ai_critic — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:46:27 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20957

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619277

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ai_critic in "SpaceX files to go public"

ai_critic — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:51:30 +0000

Neuralink appears to be working, albeit slowly--as should be expected, because the space is hard.

Cybertruck shipped and is commonly seen all over my city, so "failed" seems to be incorrect.

Starship...works? Again, the space is hard.

The tunnels...are dug?

I'm not a Musk fanboy but you're just making a bad case.

New comment by ai_critic in "“CEO said a thing” journalism"

ai_critic — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:47:08 +0000

So, is your position that Jensen Huang, CEO of NVDA, is an idiot?

Millwright: Smarter Tool Selection from Agent Experience

ai_critic — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:27:54 +0000

Article URL: https://minor.gripe/posts/2026-03-13-millwright_smarter_tool_selection_with_adaptive_toolsheds/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441123

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ai_critic in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

ai_critic — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:32:43 +0000

Gooning and racism have been a cornerstone of humanity since we descended from the trees, for better or worse.

New comment by ai_critic in "Daemon (2006)"

ai_critic — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:12:59 +0000

If you haven't read this--and also Manna (https://marshallbrain.com/manna1)--you probably should.

New comment by ai_critic in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

ai_critic — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:17:04 +0000

New comment by ai_critic in "Ask HN: Are we putting pricing on things too quickly?"

ai_critic — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 01:18:17 +0000

Why should it feel off? Like, sometimes the truth is that it's not a market fit. That's normal.

The Case for Apolitical Tech Spaces

ai_critic — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:19:30 +0000

Article URL: https://minor.gripe/posts/2026-03-02-the_case_for_apolitical_tech_spaces/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47226186

Points: 36

# Comments: 54

New comment by ai_critic in "Ask HN: Are we putting pricing on things too quickly?"

ai_critic — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:21:19 +0000

> Now that integrating Stripe takes five minutes, it feels like some builders are obsessing over revenue before they've validated value.

ZIRP is over and cash is again--as it always should've been--king.

There's no surer way of validating value than knowing people like your service enough to pay for it.

New comment by ai_critic in "Banned on Lobsters"

ai_critic — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:31:21 +0000

If you can keep things technical and apolitical I expect you'll be able to attract many lobster refugees.

New comment by ai_critic in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

ai_critic — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:01:12 +0000

Answer the question instead of deflecting.

New comment by ai_critic in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

ai_critic — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:25:09 +0000

The problem with it is that it is ahistorical enough in the tech that some things just don't work. The show tackles stuff about like a decade before it was actually relevant in market, and that has subtle problems that give the business stuff an uncanny-valley feel. Still a fun drama though.

Gremlins: Bad News, Worse News, How to Lose Big

ai_critic — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:41:42 +0000

Article URL: https://minor.gripe/posts/2026-02-13-gremlins_bad_news_worse_news_how_to_lose_big/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47019146

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by ai_critic in "OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission"

ai_critic — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:09:27 +0000

Remember everyone: If OpenAI successfully and substantially migrates away from being a non-profit, it'll be the heist of the millennium. Don't fall for it.

EDIT: They're already partway there with the PBC stuff, if I remember correctly.

New comment by ai_critic in "Discord just killed anonymity"

ai_critic — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:30:10 +0000

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

What's really more distressing is that it got this far before people figured out the game--maybe we should be reflecting on that part, the gullibility and the enabling of those people by those who knew better.

New comment by ai_critic in "[dead]"

ai_critic — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:57:39 +0000

Nice bit of data journalism.

New comment by ai_critic in "We mourn our craft"

ai_critic — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:28:09 +0000

> We’ll miss the feeling of holding code in our hands and molding it like clay in the caress of a master sculptor.

Oh come on. 95% of the folks were gluing together shitty React components and slathering them with Tailwind classes.