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New comment by mattbettinson in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"

mattbettinson — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:36:41 +0000

Absolutely. I hope with all these Ai generated images it will only raise the value of human creativity/output

New comment by mattbettinson in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"

mattbettinson — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:35:25 +0000

we will never know.

New comment by mattbettinson in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"

mattbettinson — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:53:02 +0000

I hope my local kebab shops switch to this for their signs.

New comment by mattbettinson in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

mattbettinson — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:44:07 +0000

I shudder to think of anyone in the industry this would be mind-opening to

New comment by mattbettinson in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

mattbettinson — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:14:24 +0000

I wonder what the parellel would be 2,000 years for now:

A Post-Great Solar Flare of 2484 Step Brothers DVD Has Been Decoded

New comment by mattbettinson in "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"

mattbettinson — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:09:40 +0000

Biggest LLM giveaway these days

New comment by mattbettinson in "Ford rehires 350 engineers after AI fails to preserve expertise or train juniors"

mattbettinson — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:30:30 +0000

I doubt it :)

New comment by mattbettinson in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

mattbettinson — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:05:44 +0000

What an absolute dream

New comment by mattbettinson in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

mattbettinson — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:00:03 +0000

If I watched training videos all day at work, I don't think that would diminish my enjoyment of netflix

New comment by mattbettinson in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

mattbettinson — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:53:07 +0000

I didn't do shit :D

New comment by mattbettinson in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

mattbettinson — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:02:54 +0000

Okay, but can you reverse a binary tree?

New comment by mattbettinson in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

mattbettinson — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:19:35 +0000

Its a HN truism, now, though.

New comment by mattbettinson in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

mattbettinson — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:24:00 +0000

Which one?

New comment by mattbettinson in "Leap in DNA synthesis slashes time to build new genetic sequences"

mattbettinson — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:46:49 +0000

Just need the organs!

New comment by mattbettinson in "My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck"

mattbettinson — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:11:34 +0000

We played this in university with a deck of cards. Great fun

New comment by mattbettinson in "Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40"

mattbettinson — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:01:53 +0000

I love 40 card MTG. It's one of my fav ways to play. If you play a bunch of games in a row with someone it starts feeling like chess, much more deterministic when you're used to their deck. Getting two foundations boosters and shuffling them is such a great way to play. I'll definitely take a look at this

New comment by mattbettinson in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

mattbettinson — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:49:05 +0000

FWIW I think you should paraphrase this comment on the hero of the site! I was unclear what it did till i read your comment fully.

New comment by mattbettinson in "Thin desires are eating life"

mattbettinson — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:26:26 +0000

Maybe it will reach the people most in need of it that way

New comment by mattbettinson in "We Need to Die"

mattbettinson — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:57:49 +0000

Nah I’m good. I’ll just hang out with my friends and play video games every day

New comment by mattbettinson in "Don't be a scary old guy: My 40s survival strategy with charm"

mattbettinson — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:32:47 +0000

For me it would, I can’t pull it off