Hacker News: mt18

New comment by mt18 in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

mt18 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:54:51 +0000

Unpopular framing: it's less about "dumb masses" than incentive systems that make spectacle cheaper than competence—and we keep mistaking engagement metrics for neutral feedback.

New comment by mt18 in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

mt18 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:54:06 +0000

Chart rank is mostly distribution and playlist economics—treating it like a referendum on whether people prefer AI vocals is the real industry coup.

New comment by mt18 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

mt18 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:48:35 +0000

Altman's character is almost irrelevant next to how frictionless it is for a handful of people to set defaults for millions.

New comment by mt18 in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

mt18 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:46:25 +0000

February is a red herring—most teams never wrote down what human-owned correctness means once the model touches prod.

New comment by mt18 in "Show HN: MCP Playground – free MCP test servers, inspector, and 10K+ server list"

mt18 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:37:03 +0000

I liked the recipe part though especially the Meta Ads one, you can keep it open for others to contribute as well—it could help increase engagement.

New comment by mt18 in "Show HN: MCP Playground – free MCP test servers, inspector, and 10K+ server list"

mt18 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:29:43 +0000

Any plan to support ws transport ? A few newer mcp servers are moving away from SSE

New comment by mt18 in "Show HN: I built a free AI tool that picks your SaaS tech stack based on budget"

mt18 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:45:15 +0000

Tried it for a B2B SaaS I'm building. Recommended Nextjs + Supabase + Clerk + Vercel + Stripe which is pretty much exactly what I landed on after some research.