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New comment by bigmattystyles in "BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman"

bigmattystyles — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:20:30 +0000

See https://www.reddit.com/r/BMW/s/VQjw472u3t

New comment by bigmattystyles in "BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman"

bigmattystyles — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:19:32 +0000

My 99 manual A4 is looking better all the time. Turns out more reliable too.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI"

bigmattystyles — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:00:15 +0000

Don't look at how people submit code in industry then.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine?"

bigmattystyles — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:51:30 +0000

It should be encouraged but even accounting for side-effects, taking a pill is easy. From personal experience, when I'm heavily depressed, I can barely get out of bed or eat. Forget exercise.

BMWs shows in-car ads for Spiderman

bigmattystyles — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:42:31 +0000

It's an alert that comes in as a surprise from BMW - you don't have to click it, but when you do, you are met with a minute long video ad for Spiderman.

Submitting as I figured it would be interesting for discussion. Boiling frogs and all.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073924

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New comment by bigmattystyles in "Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site"

bigmattystyles — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:11:48 +0000

Weird, on my iPhone it loaded instantly.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Punch yourself in the face with reality"

bigmattystyles — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:48:45 +0000

3 pages of reply or overly verbose code, often without abstractions - I read all the posters here and in other forums say that programming has shifted towards reviewing AI output rather than coding said output manually; I agree, however, I just don't buy that everyone is actually reviewing the code as intensely as one would expect - there is a tendency that arrived rather quickly to assume that the AI is correct and efficient. I guess the ultimate reviewer is another AI agent I guess.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "What will be left for us to work on?"

bigmattystyles — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:39:45 +0000

Yes, AI code generation is the same.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "What will be left for us to work on?"

bigmattystyles — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:23:06 +0000

Are you the one who wrote it though or just the one who wrote prompts? Not that it matters in the end…

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Why write code in 2026"

bigmattystyles — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:00:26 +0000

That’s why even though 99% of my work is C#, llms have made it so I can finally call myself a low-level programmer, which I’ve always aspired to. I didn’t even have to do anything.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI"

bigmattystyles — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:47:01 +0000

You need Jean Claude for that.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

bigmattystyles — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:27:34 +0000

But they used LateX

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray"

bigmattystyles — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:56:07 +0000

I thought the url said temu at first.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things"

bigmattystyles — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:12:46 +0000

> > Elon Musk says there will be no need for compilers as AI will write the binary directly

Wouldn’t that make the AI the compiler?

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

bigmattystyles — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:26:43 +0000

That’s why most doors come prehung in a jamb. Just add shims and then cover them with trim.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art"

bigmattystyles — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:24:19 +0000

One time my wife and I were watching a documentary on Florence and I was convinced we’d been there, was asking my wife when we went. Turns out I’d played too much AC.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "CachyOS June 2026 Release"

bigmattystyles — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:46:11 +0000

Same, games aside, it’s just so snappy. I knew windows was slow at a lot of things but I hadn’t quite realized how slow things as banal as locking/unlocking had become. The first week with cachyos was mind blowing on just that front.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies"

bigmattystyles — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:12:35 +0000

Seems pretty good but you need to be a health care pro, it locks you out rather fast. Makes sense though, can’t be given unlimited free tokens.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies"

bigmattystyles — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:42:01 +0000

I’m currently facing a severe health condition and I can’t help but ask various LLMs about it. They all will eventually offer solutions or avenues that sound promising or ‘easy’ when I know better, that the path ahead of me is hard, however they will non-chalantly offer a path forward they insist will work. The best part is when it cites commercial websites promotional statements as facts, though it will also misinterpret medical journals if I say to restrict itself to that.

In closing, my Redfin escapism has shifted to LLM medical escapism, I know better but if you don’t or you are in even more dire straits, it provides such an illusion of hope and that’s dangerous.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

bigmattystyles — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:36:07 +0000

No, I fully agree with you.