Hacker News: fantasizr

New comment by fantasizr in "Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402"

fantasizr — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:18:18 +0000

when the law won't protect you it creates an opportunity for a mafia like protection racket

New comment by fantasizr in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"

fantasizr — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:51:32 +0000

this is like ai use in arts to some degree, people don't want to write, they want to 'have written' and collect the social status that they think it confers. People don't want to code or make products better (or even understand the details) they want 'lines of code' or 'commit' or a pretty github green profile.

New comment by fantasizr in "Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark"

fantasizr — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:10:31 +0000

tech will do anything to normalize theft and call it innovation

New comment by fantasizr in "The Coming Loop"

fantasizr — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:14:29 +0000

tech blogs used to read like actionable readme guides. I couldn't finish it without thinking: what am I supposed to do with this information? The shelf life of the latest and greatest is about 2 weeks in the AI space. I never caught up to the ralph wiggum loop and now I'm glad I never tried.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682325

New comment by fantasizr in "The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows"

fantasizr — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 02:49:26 +0000

the feeling of why create anything if it'll just be stolen by AI has to be at least somewhat novel.

New comment by fantasizr in "The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows"

fantasizr — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:09:15 +0000

reminds me of this woman who had copyright filed against her for playing moonlight sonata. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27004577 if not for the complete hassle and threat to her livelihood, it might be laughable.

New comment by fantasizr in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

fantasizr — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:39:37 +0000

with cursor it still feels like coding, all the others are diff checks it seems like.

New comment by fantasizr in "Show HN: Verso – A $14.99 Mac word processor with no subscription"

fantasizr — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:33:09 +0000

there's so many apps, I'm sorta where murakami was to filter out novels he'd consider reading. A good app needs to be validated through the sands of time before I consider replacing something that already exists on my machine (and was probably free).

New comment by fantasizr in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

fantasizr — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:29:25 +0000

Agree that even prior to LLMs those projects weren't terribly welcoming as per Linus' famous email comments (chalk it up to cultural communication differences :) )

New comment by fantasizr in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

fantasizr — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:05:16 +0000

the analogy would be that your LLM/agent has a pass at a Spielberg script and peppers his inbox with inane production notes. A system like that would be untenable for all involved.

New comment by fantasizr in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

fantasizr — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:52:40 +0000

I - and many, many others - learned flask from his mega-guide that he obviously spent a lot of time working on.

I feel bad for people like him who get the brunt of dilettantes who can "code" polluting his time and focus. Reminds me of that mitch hedberg joke: "When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away." but for PRs

New comment by fantasizr in "Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications"

fantasizr — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:26:14 +0000

it looks like it was built using the satire vibecoding components listed here yesterday https://vorpus.github.io/performativeUI/

New comment by fantasizr in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

fantasizr — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:25:54 +0000

suno produces 7m "professional" songs per day. Can't think of a better example of a slop generator. Many songs that will never get more than a handful of listens if it all.

New comment by fantasizr in "Retro-Tech Parenting"

fantasizr — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:50:23 +0000

something to be said for listening to the same cd over and over due to limited options, where you really get to know the tracks inside and out.

New comment by fantasizr in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

fantasizr — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:05:28 +0000

I've pretty much avoided it by going to Gmail->Settings and disabling "smart" features:

Smart Reply: (Show suggested replies when available.)

Smart features: When you turn this setting on, you agree to let Gmail, Chat, and Meet use your content and activity in these products to provide smart features and personalize your experience.

New comment by fantasizr in "You can just say it"

fantasizr — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:38:48 +0000

I feel bad for this generation who will have to listen to prompted eulogies and wedding toasts. And worse for the genuine writers who now will be accused of having done so.

New comment by fantasizr in "Is AI causing a repeat of Front end's Lost Decade?"

fantasizr — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:32:44 +0000

Oh don't me wrong, it's bad and we're going to suffer through terrible web apps for the foreseeable future spat out in the 1000s per day. Like all slop songs, images, videos and articles. Hardly a reward for building something artisanal in the digital space

New comment by fantasizr in "The $500K AI Film That "Premiered at Cannes" Was Not in the Official Festival"

fantasizr — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:50:12 +0000

between this and the 'ai actress' who got press in variety; and with the 'friend.com' bits. The ai industry has gotten good at stunt marketing, or maybe it's payola

New comment by fantasizr in "Is AI causing a repeat of Front end's Lost Decade?"

fantasizr — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:34:53 +0000

Everyone had a chance to learn vanilla js from the mozilla docs but using jquery was much much simpler. Concede that jquery is more difficult than prompting. The issue for me is that prompting a front end and everything looks exactly the same. More cookie cutter than what wordpress and wix offered

New comment by fantasizr in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

fantasizr — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:00:38 +0000

The only AI screenshots I like to read are when it's comically wrong and we both get a quick laugh