Hacker News: brendanfinan

New comment by brendanfinan in "I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel"

brendanfinan — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:38:11 +0000

when you want to start a B2C agent startup but the word "agent" is oversaturated

New comment by brendanfinan in "[dead]"

brendanfinan — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:03:03 +0000

AI-written text

New comment by brendanfinan in "The whole premise of checking for human writing is daft"

brendanfinan — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:27:02 +0000

The article is quick to shoehorn LLMs in as the last of a long list of established tools.

LLMs are fundamentally different from other writing tools because they attempt to construct meaning in a way that is not done by the author. A main purpose of writing is to convey meaning, so LLM writing defeats that purpose.

New comment by brendanfinan in "Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders"

brendanfinan — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:55:33 +0000

Which one of these was supposed to be funny?

New comment by brendanfinan in "Stop Killing Games"

brendanfinan — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:24:25 +0000

I am beyond tired of reading "This isn't X. It's Y"

that happens at the end of nearly every paragraph here

New comment by brendanfinan in "Agentic Mfw"

brendanfinan — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:02:20 +0000

people were (rightfully) complaining about this kind of humor in 2019

https://dysfunctionalliteracy.com/2019/12/21/why-do-self-hel...

New comment by brendanfinan in "The Onion to Take over InfoWars"

brendanfinan — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:34:04 +0000

the AI-generated imagery is a non-starter for me

New comment by brendanfinan in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

brendanfinan — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:03:15 +0000

the Kalshi legal team is a revolving door with the CFTC

New comment by brendanfinan in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

brendanfinan — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:15:22 +0000

Online store for CERN-brand antimatter

New comment by brendanfinan in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

brendanfinan — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:04:35 +0000

https://home.web.cern.ch/order

New comment by brendanfinan in "A man who broke into jail"

brendanfinan — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:56:20 +0000

cruel and unusual

New comment by brendanfinan in "GitHub is down again"

brendanfinan — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:26:37 +0000

It's not an antitrust issue because antitrust laws aren't enforced in the U.S.

New comment by brendanfinan in "Meta Is Being Sued over Whether WhatsApp Encrypts Your Messages"

brendanfinan — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:49:36 +0000

day ending in "y"

Show HN: Soka – The Golden Rule Licensed Under the GNU General Public License

brendanfinan — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:48:58 +0000

Projects including Soka will implement the Golden Rule and be licensed under the GPL.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46775666

Points: 2

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New comment by brendanfinan in "Can AI Generate New Ideas?"

brendanfinan — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:19:14 +0000

Of course it could. The debate will be over whether it has done so already, how "new" the ideas are, and if it is doing so entirely independently.

New comment by brendanfinan in "All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)"

brendanfinan — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:03:39 +0000

It's convenient! I know that they are cutting corners on the product, because they are cutting corners with their ads.

New comment by brendanfinan in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

brendanfinan — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:21:28 +0000

Some of the customer's money is already crypto though

New comment by brendanfinan in "Llama Fund: Crowdfund AI Models"

brendanfinan — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:35:10 +0000

Gotta start somewhere

New comment by brendanfinan in "The Lumina Probiotic May Cause Blindness in the Same Way as Methanol"

brendanfinan — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:19:46 +0000

Wait, you're telling me I can get clean teeth AND free booze

New comment by brendanfinan in "OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio"

brendanfinan — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:41:08 +0000

would this also work for my video consisting of 10,000 PDFs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44125598