Hacker News: codeduck

New comment by codeduck in "Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models"

codeduck — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:05:00 +0000

> It seems that the only people who are hating on this aren't even writers themselves.

I will gladly be the counter-example, then. I program. I'm grumpy. I also, however, write fiction - and have for well over twenty years now.

Writing is a skill I acquired and honed through hard work, diligence, and practice. I would no more cede "creative" control of my stories to a LLM than I would load a MIDI track onto my piano and claim the piano's perfect rendition as my own.

But feel free to characterise I - and others - as "grumpy coders who probably don't write".

New comment by codeduck in "AI-Generated GitHub Copilot "Autofix" Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira"

codeduck — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:41:17 +0000

In accordance with the prophecy.

New comment by codeduck in "Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models"

codeduck — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:07:11 +0000

We're setting ourselves up to the be the humans on the ship Axiom from WALL-E

New comment by codeduck in "Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models"

codeduck — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:49:34 +0000

The reaction is not because the OP used AI to create software.

The reaction is because OP's software facilitates the outsourcing of creative writing to a agentic content mill, and many HN users take issue with that.

New comment by codeduck in "Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models"

codeduck — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:57:54 +0000

AI feels like a Faustian bargain that has been struck on my behalf by others who do not know me.

"Tools" like this make me feel nothing but a profound sense of sadness and despair.

New comment by codeduck in "Asus Bike Booster"

codeduck — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:12:01 +0000

easy on, easy off, easy to fence.

New comment by codeduck in "US vs. UK Baby Names 2025: The Biggest Top Differences Visualized"

codeduck — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:44:19 +0000

why are you resubmitting something you submitted 78 days ago?

New comment by codeduck in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

codeduck — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:16:03 +0000

Believe it or not, the UK already does this to people for whom there is no plausible asylum claim. The problem, if you want to think about it as such, is that the UK currently believes in treating potential asylum claimants as such rather than automatically labeling them as criminals.

New comment by codeduck in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

codeduck — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:14:25 +0000

Believe it or not, they actually already do this.

New comment by codeduck in "Let’s take apart your phone"

codeduck — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:06:14 +0000

I was thinking earlier that a traditional spring-based pocket watch seems far more intricate to me than a wodge of glass and silicon. I know the phone is far more complex, but intricate? Nah.

New comment by codeduck in "RSI Simulator"

codeduck — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:04:22 +0000

Not the RSI I was expecting it to be.

New comment by codeduck in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

codeduck — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:41:37 +0000

Bad news, budget cuts mean we can afford a flounder with a paper fan. His name's Steven and he lives about twenty yards east of Lulworth Cover, but we reckon he's okay to commute to work.

New comment by codeduck in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

codeduck — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:36:54 +0000

All right, mate, let's hear your plan for securing the UK's south-eastern coastline.

New comment by codeduck in "I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy"

codeduck — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:55:59 +0000

It's called being insulated from the immediate consequences of their actions and hubris.

New comment by codeduck in "Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack"

codeduck — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:50:41 +0000

Oh boy, it's a big one.

New comment by codeduck in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

codeduck — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:58:50 +0000

Or even what they were regularly doing to grids of rainforest in Vietnam.

New comment by codeduck in "200 Milliseconds"

codeduck — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:35:34 +0000

Why would no local cache on a laptop hold the IP address for the api endpoint if it's already open in the browser and being posted to?

New comment by codeduck in "Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?"

codeduck — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:45:15 +0000

I studied History of Art in school - long ago admittedly, but it was clearly helpful in identifying differences between eastern and western portraiture. It was, however, far less useful at helping me identify artifacts from Central Africa and Mesoamerica.

I used no external resources since that would defeat the purpose of this.

Given that, I placed in the 64th percentile based on a couple of really accurate matches (renaissance sculpture, fnar) and a lot that weren't terribly wrong.

New comment by codeduck in "A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants"

codeduck — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:43:23 +0000

Hmm. Hmmm. Hmm. HMMM. Hmm.

Yep! I know some of these words.

New comment by codeduck in "Neutrino-1 8B"

codeduck — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:25:49 +0000

Or perhaps a slop flag on submissions that gets added once enough readers have flagged it as such. I'd love that feature.