Hacker News: hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

New comment by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in "The dead economy theory"

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:03:52 +0000

>Last year, over half of new content on the internet was AI-generated.

Traffic != AI generated content.

New comment by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:34:19 +0000

Saying people are going to lose jobs at least sounded like we were at the cusp of something special. Now it just seems like we are going to get Opus 4.8.1 that supposedly helps somehow according to benchmarks.

Guess they have found their market and this is it.

New comment by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in "UK Births fall to the lowest level in 50 years"

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:58:05 +0000

The drop starts happening in 2010 which is ironically when dating apps start taking off. And we now have an increasing number of digital nomads moving to places like Thailand to find their spouse citing dating apps for making dating much harder in the West. [1]

Maybe turning dating into a casino where one gender holds all the cards is not a great idea.

[1] https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/04/16/western-men-are...

https://archive.is/WcVd4

UK Births fall to the lowest level in 50 years

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:12:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgzdq23xpgo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299024

Points: 9

# Comments: 3

New comment by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in "We Lost Our Imagination"

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:49:20 +0000

The problem is that people end up on the same 5 platforms (Netflix, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook) which then leads to people consuming much of the same things.

New comment by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in "We Lost Our Imagination"

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:47:43 +0000

Go and travel, you will broaden your world. Yes, the world has become more globalised but still a lot of diversity out there.

New comment by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in "Microsoft AI CEO forecasts human-level AI in 18 months"

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:41:41 +0000

People in tech think everything is changing, not realising that it is mostly the tech industry itself that is getting impacted while every other industry remains relatively the same as it was.

New comment by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in "Microsoft AI CEO forecasts human-level AI in 18 months"

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:38:39 +0000

Google is not a person and this is not of one the authors of the transformers paper. Many are also already aware new ideas are needed beyond transformers.

Swatch stores close for second day after crowds

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:13:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c302vjqz563o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172257

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in "WHO declares Ebola outbreak in DR Congo a global health emergency"

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Sun, 17 May 2026 09:38:43 +0000

No it is not a "global" emergency. Lock the whole country down, no one goes in, no one goes out. We don't have to make this a "global" problem.

New comment by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in "London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time"

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:23:44 +0000

Ironic. You are admitting that you yourself don't want to be near these people who are going to get put in detention centres (who would probably otherwise be free).

New comment by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in "London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time"

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:00:47 +0000

To Reforms credit while I do think they started off as a bit of a looney party that relied on theatrics they managed to evolve into a more mature party ever since Zia Yusuf joined and you see how the tone of Nigel Farage has already become more serious. To some that will look like they became "Conservatives 2.0" but I don't think we have another real conservative party left anyway.

New comment by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in "The Dating App Swipe Is Dying. What Comes Next May Be Worse"

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:09:27 +0000

>1. At any given time, the apps are overwhelmingly populated by people for whom there is at least one very good reason they are currently single. If they're lucky, that reason is changeable, and they find out about it and change it, and leave the app pretty quickly thereafter.

Higher quality people have higher standards, it never gets easier because you are always competing within your own dating pool. Celebrities basically date only other celebrities and still have to compete (and sometimes cheat) with other celebrities. The game is always the same, just different players.

There is no variable you can change that somehow 'solves' dating. This is not a simple board game.

>2. The apps intentionally sandbag their "placement rate," repeatedly matching people that are capable of having good relationships with people that aren't, in order to keep a decent pool of the former in the app.

There is little to no signal that someone is "capable of having a good relationship" through a digital curated profile. Even someone who has been on the app a long time can just be unlucky or more selective.

>On the other hand, an app designed for people looking for for one-off hookups can easily prosper indefinitely, since good candidates for one-off hookups aren't going to stop using the app the second they have a good hookup.

This is not at all an original idea. You can also set your dating intentions to "short term" on any dating app. It makes no difference. In fact, even women only interested in this like to pretend to be prude for their self-image. It also won't change the asymmetry issue between men and women due to risks involved for women that makes them far more selective.

New comment by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in "The Dating App Swipe Is Dying. What Comes Next May Be Worse"

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:29:38 +0000

These topics somehow always attract some really strange people (usually with dunning-kruger) who seem to think our deeply complex messy world functions exactly like a board game or that their ideas are somehow original. Go and touch grass.

New comment by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in "The Dating App Swipe Is Dying. What Comes Next May Be Worse"

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:12:45 +0000

>I won't go into my personal explanations here as I'll just be downvoted into oblivion

Enlighten us.

New comment by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in "The Dating App Swipe Is Dying. What Comes Next May Be Worse"

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:02:14 +0000

On dating apps, men will always be the customer and women are the product. You cannot fix this asymmetry due to how attraction works and the risks involved between men and women. Ironically Instagram is 'the' dating app as you can vet people better and see if they have any social proof. Real life skips a lot of the BS altogether.

I can't ever see anything improving. They will just learn how to manipulate men further into paying, where you suddenly get swarmed with likes then get nothing for a period then get swarmed again so you remain hooked and eventually pay.

New comment by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:25:44 +0000

Lack of honour, low trust, the breakdown of the social contract. Seems all related to me.

New comment by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:22:08 +0000

so much winning https://layoffs.fyi/

New comment by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in "Man finds $1M worth of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in a dumpster"

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:55:23 +0000

>“F*** stupid f** I bet don't know you hoes getting none of this s**,” he said in another.

I trust this guy.

New comment by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in "Coinbase cuts 14% of its workforce, says AI is changing how work gets done"

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:23:00 +0000

Jevon's paradox meant tokkenmaxxing not more employees.