Hacker News: loudandskittish

New comment by loudandskittish in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

loudandskittish — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:41:40 +0000

Exactly how I feel. There is already more art, movies, music, books, video games and more made by human beings than I can experience in my lifetime. Why should I waste any time on content generated by the word guessing machine?

New comment by loudandskittish in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

loudandskittish — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:30:04 +0000

There are already more games being released on Steam than anyone can keep up with, I'm not sure how adding another "wave" on top of it helps.

New comment by loudandskittish in "Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai"

loudandskittish — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:19:30 +0000

This story has Apple + $2B acquisition + AI

...how is this not at the top of the page?

New comment by loudandskittish in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

loudandskittish — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:55:51 +0000

...haven't bots been buying things off eBay since the 90s?

New comment by loudandskittish in "As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise"

loudandskittish — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 07:40:46 +0000

Love all the variations of "8GB of RAM should be enough for anybody" in here.

New comment by loudandskittish in "PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage"

loudandskittish — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 01:08:28 +0000

Until I got the last part, I actually thought you were being serious.

New comment by loudandskittish in "Squirrels hunting and eating meat"

loudandskittish — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 05:20:51 +0000

...something happened. Growing up, I had cats that ate squirrels. Then, sometime around the early 2000s, I had cats that were being chased by squirrels.

New comment by loudandskittish in ""This is not a joke, Funko just called my mom""

loudandskittish — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:39:07 +0000

So... why are they harassing the dude's mother?

New comment by loudandskittish in "Yes Prime Minister, questionnaire design matters"

loudandskittish — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 20:08:13 +0000

> "First of all, to be clear, we would never ask questions on such a topic in this way."

I love how they worded that. Having once worked for Ipsos, they DEFINITELY do it, but the sentence is correct, I don't recall any instances of it being done "on such a topic."

New comment by loudandskittish in "Death Valley National Park now offering a rare opportunity – kayaking"

loudandskittish — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 01:46:07 +0000

"Americans will use anything but the metric system."

New comment by loudandskittish in "Spreadsheet "breaks" Apple Vision Pro eye-tracking"

loudandskittish — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 01:15:49 +0000

To me, all this feels like recreating "Hollywood UIs" that were designed for the benefit of the audience watching and not an actual user.

New comment by loudandskittish in "Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute"

loudandskittish — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:27:47 +0000

So, does the fact that I have zero trouble focusing on the dot for 60 seconds mean I DON'T have ADHD, contrary to what so many people on social media have been trying to convince me?

New comment by loudandskittish in "A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's"

loudandskittish — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 00:49:38 +0000

Yeah, I used to stop at McDonald's on my way home from a big grocery run and stopped when I saw the fries there cost more than the giant bag of frozen fries I had just bought...

New comment by loudandskittish in "Margaret Atwood Reviews a Margaret Atwood Story by AI"

loudandskittish — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 01:59:44 +0000

Indeed, I've come across more instances of things that were supposedly AI-generated that turned out to have been made by a human being...

New comment by loudandskittish in "Why are there so many colourful houses in Bristol?"

loudandskittish — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 23:06:01 +0000

...I'd always heard it was to make it easier to find your house after too much Screech.

New comment by loudandskittish in "We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score"

loudandskittish — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:03:05 +0000

I'm always suspicious when I open comments and see a whole lot of people posting variations of the same talking points as top-level threads... even if I happen to agree with those points.

New comment by loudandskittish in "Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”"

loudandskittish — Sat, 06 May 2023 20:16:56 +0000

I'm finding this entire comment section confusing and I genuinely want to understand what is so offensive about what this editor did. To me this does not look like a problem that requires a solution and I even appreciate the essay (I've always had a hard time understanding the usage of 'comprises').

...yet I'm seeing unironic comparisons to both 1984 and Nazi Germany, so ... what this person did is evil?

Can someone please help me understand this?

New comment by loudandskittish in "Read “Gravity’s Rainbow” fifty years later"

loudandskittish — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 23:27:22 +0000

Damn, these comments are scaring me. I recently added the book to my to-read list after learning that it was a big influence on Hideo Kojima, but now I'm worried about what I'm getting myself into.

I suppose I should at least, finally, finish Infinite Jest to prime myself.

New comment by loudandskittish in "Bing Image Creator"

loudandskittish — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:17:47 +0000

Huh, this one actually seems to work... I ask for pixel art and it gives me pixel art (Stable Diffusion and DALL-E keep giving me needlepoint).

New comment by loudandskittish in "“Here's the number I used to win the lottery“ –Entrepreneurs giving advice"

loudandskittish — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 22:59:40 +0000

I'm reminded of the song Common People by Pulp:

"But still you'll never get it right/'Cause when you're laying in bed at night/Watching roaches climb the wall/If you called your dad he could stop it all."