Hacker News: matty22

New comment by matty22 in "AI is a technology not a product"

matty22 — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:31:13 +0000

If they could get "Hey Siri, play 'Song Title' by 'Band Name'" to open the Music app and play the song I ask for, that's the extent that I give a damn about AI being introduced to iOS.

New comment by matty22 in "Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security"

matty22 — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:14:21 +0000

I'm not confident that any of us will ever see lower prices due to green energy. Why would the power company who currently makes $XX billions of dollars per year ever provide that same service for $(XX-YY) billions of dollars per year when they could pocket the cost savings themselves and pump up their stock value?

Aside from privately owned solar/wind/battery on your own home, there's no evidence that I've seen anyway that indicates when utilities move to more green energy generation that those savings get passed on to customers. Perhaps, there are examples out there somewhere.

New comment by matty22 in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

matty22 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:10:35 +0000

I'm guessing there's a sizable portion of the HN crowd that are millenials. Millenials who have paid the costs of the Boomer/GenX generations absolute destruction of the "American Dream" for their own benefit. They climbed the ladder and pulled it up behind them leaving millenials holding the bag.

That same set of millenials are now visiting that treatment upon Gen Z. We are building AI that will eviscerate the remaining middle class, raise electricity rates to a level where many people will not be able to power their homes, and poisoning the air and water so that portions of the world will become unliveable.

Gen Z is justified in being upset with millenials. We used to be the victims, but we've become the abusers.

New comment by matty22 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

matty22 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:20:10 +0000

Documenting all publicly accessible stained glass as possible. App is built with vanilla HTML/CSS/JS. Nothing fancy!

https://www.stainedglassatlas.com/

New comment by matty22 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

matty22 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:12:01 +0000

I mean…FAFO? He’s an egomaniac pushing a technology that is objectively negative for anyone not already a billionaire. I have no issue with more Molotov cocktails being chucked at his house, or OpenAI offices, or data centers around the world.

Sam Altman being removed from the equation would make the world an objectively better place.

New comment by matty22 in "Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service"

matty22 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:11:43 +0000

But...who will rake the forests to prevent the fires?

New comment by matty22 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

matty22 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:12:37 +0000

Stained Glass Atlas (https://stainedglassatlas.com/) - working on mapping/documenting as much of the publicly accessible stained glass as possible. No fancy tech (vanilla HTML/CSS/JS). Anyone who knows of great stained glass in their local area is welcome to come add to the data set!

New comment by matty22 in "Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat"

matty22 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:07:23 +0000

Read the history of just about any political revolution in history. Eventually, those oligarchs at the top find their heads in the guillotine.

New comment by matty22 in "AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review"

matty22 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:33:43 +0000

The irony of someone using AI trained on stolen copyrighted art to generate "art" and then wanting to copyright said "art" is hilarious.

New comment by matty22 in "Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV"

matty22 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:28:17 +0000

Yeah, but does it have CarPlay yet? It's a complete deal breaker despite Rivian being essentially the only company who offers a BEV pickup truck of a reasonable size.

New comment by matty22 in "MIT Living Wage Calculator"

matty22 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:35:13 +0000

I don't think it is accurate for the opposite reason. If my wife and I made what the "living wage" was for two working adults, we'd be living with her parents. It is laughably low for the cost of living in this area.

New comment by matty22 in "Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI""

matty22 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:13:12 +0000

It's a simple cost/benefit analysis that (rightly) causes the massive AI backlash. For the average Joe, non-tech worker, the cons of AI are:

* Higher electricty bills.

* 5-6x cost of RAM, GPUs, and other computer components

* Data centers popping up in their backyards

* An internet inundated with slop

* Slop beginning to infiltrate the video game industry and other creative industries

* AI being used to justify gutting entry level jobs for a generation already screwed by larger, long horizon economic forces

* Grok enabling the creation of revenge porn and CSAM with seemingly no repercussions

* Massive IP theft on a scale previously unheard of

* Etc.

The pros of AI are:

* It can summarize text and transcribe audio decently well.

* It can make funny pictures of cats wearing top hats.

* ???

New comment by matty22 in "Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI""

matty22 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:03:30 +0000

Not to mention that the LAST place I want an all-consuming, privacy-destroying data beast is anywhere near my health data.

New comment by matty22 in "Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle in 2026"

matty22 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:01:59 +0000

From the Oxford English Dictionary:

4. Designating the original or traditional form of something that has a digital or computer-mediated counterpart.

5. colloquial (chiefly humorous). Esp. of a person: unaware of or unaffected by computer technology or digital communications; outdated, old-fashioned.

New comment by matty22 in "Games Workshop bans staff from using AI"

matty22 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:34:18 +0000

In a perfect world, AI would be used to reduce the amount of work humans must do, to free up their time to make more art. Not used to replace human expression with soulless slop generated from art stolen from other artists.

That's why there's less backlash against AI that writes code and more backlash when the video game industry uses it for creative assets.

New comment by matty22 in "Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use"

matty22 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 20:58:46 +0000

“Whoops! We forgot to disclose that we ripped off thousands of other artists when we made our game. But don’t worry, it was only for placeholder stuff!”

New comment by matty22 in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

matty22 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:42:23 +0000

You have not made that argument or given any details on why you think that might be the case. I know a lot of people interested in an EV pickup, but who aren't going to spend Rivian money on a vehicle. There are zero options for a $40k EV pickup truck. It's literally never been offered to any buyer in this country. So, we're both arguing with anecdata, but I'd argue for trying it before we say it can't work.

New comment by matty22 in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

matty22 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:30:48 +0000

You shouldn't ever lease a vehicle either. Unless you like setting piles of your money on fire.

New comment by matty22 in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

matty22 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:28:50 +0000

Ok, well Texas ain't the entire country. The vast majority of the population of this country do not live in the rural Midwest. As of the 2020 census, 80% of the population live in areas considered "urban" and 20% live in areas considered "rural". I'd also hazard a guess that most people who drive trucks, are not people who buy them because they need truck "utility". They drive them because twice a year they need to carry a load of garden dirt and maybe on the weekends they carry tools to their buddy's house. If putting a lot of miles on your truck is what you need it to do, the hybrid Maverick gets ~35-40 mpg, 3-4x what any full sized pickup will get.

> EV in fullsize truck doesn't work that well

Yes, you are making my argument for me. Fullsize EV pickup trucks don't work well, so Ford should stop making them...

New comment by matty22 in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

matty22 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:13:43 +0000

If you were gunshy about trying out VR. You'd never even worn a pair before and you wanted to give it a shot. Would you be more willing to spend $300 on a Quest or would you rather spend $3500 on an Apple Vision Pro? Now let's pretend we're in an alternate timeline and the $300 Quest never existed. The only option available to you was the $3500 option. Are you still interested in trying out VR?

MSRP might not be the only factor, but it's pretty damn important. Not a lot of people can "risk" $85,000.