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New comment by royal__ in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

royal__ — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:30:56 +0000

What specifically about this feels AI generated. It might be, IDK, but I'm not seeing any tells, so wondering if you could expand.

New comment by royal__ in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

royal__ — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:29:52 +0000

Love it. The grid is cool but I think it needs to be more transparent.

New comment by royal__ in "Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic into First Profitable Quarter"

royal__ — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:28:34 +0000

I'm not sure what you're saying here. You can use Claude Code on Linux.

New comment by royal__ in "Mexican government breached by solo user with Claude, 150 GB exfiltrated"

royal__ — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:13:35 +0000

This is written by AI

New comment by royal__ in "Googlebook"

royal__ — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:15:48 +0000

So...it's a Chromebook. With "ai".

New comment by royal__ in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

royal__ — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:52:36 +0000

The title is just flat out wrong. The author isn't going back to writing code by hand, they're plopping some new stuff into their CLAUDE.md to "fix" the issues they see AI is having.

New comment by royal__ in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

royal__ — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:27:20 +0000

Homegrown systems are expensive to maintain and usually still fail to match up to the commercial options available at this point. LMS's are also just really complicated pieces of software. I worked on my university's own version as an undergrad.

New comment by royal__ in "LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction"

royal__ — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:47:15 +0000

I agree, but I think it's for a different reason than what the author says: LLMs are a very leaky abstraction compared to other levels, meaning it's much harder to convey the true intent of logic you are trying to encode through natural language, and often by doing so you are just relying on the LLM to "get it right", which is inherently messy business. Oftentimes, that leakiness just doesn't matter that much. Other times, it does.

New comment by royal__ in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

royal__ — Sat, 02 May 2026 05:17:54 +0000

This is what I want. Unfortunately it's probably not going to happen

New comment by royal__ in "Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically"

royal__ — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:44:22 +0000

The "earlier" and "later" labels really confused me because I think they could be interpreted either way. Also the AI art is corny. But I'm guessing this is all just AI generated

New comment by royal__ in "YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts"

royal__ — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:05:10 +0000

This is the way. The biggest issue is that it's easy to disable if you have no self control, but I guess an official setting would be the same way.

Sorry kid, drones are for war now

royal__ — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:50:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/906306/fcc-drone-ban-who-will-replace-dji-in-us-antigravity-hoverair-skydio

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678872

Points: 7

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New comment by royal__ in "People love to work hard"

royal__ — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:57:48 +0000

I don't necessarily disagree with the premise here, but the other makes the claim that people love to work hard based on their experience founding startups. People who gravitate towards that undoubtedly like to work hard, seems like sample bias.

New comment by royal__ in "March heat in American west has left snowpack at record-low levels"

royal__ — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:03:57 +0000

In Utah it's atypical to not have just as much if not more snow in March than in April. The snow pack in the mountains should last all the way until August. This year will likely be very bad for wildfires.

New comment by royal__ in "March heat in American west has left snowpack at record-low levels"

royal__ — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:01:27 +0000

In Utah its typical to have just as muc

New comment by royal__ in "Ant Chat"

royal__ — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:17:19 +0000

My friend, you can't require an unexplained account login for an unexplained app

New comment by royal__ in "Tell HN: AI tools are making me lose interest in CS fundamentals"

royal__ — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:31:06 +0000

These tools actually make me more interested in CS fundamentals. Having strong conceptual understanding is as relevant as ever for making good judgement calls and staying connected with your work.

New comment by royal__ in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

royal__ — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:22:32 +0000

The real problem with Spotify's DJ is that, if you use it a lot, it gets into a feedback loop where it keeps playing the same songs that it serves you up because it thinks you like them. It's pretty bad at finding new music which is ironic because I find Spotify's Discover Weekly algorithm to be quite good (sometimes)

New comment by royal__ in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

royal__ — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 03:55:26 +0000

Yes! This is very obviously AI. Even in the last week there have been several submissions that have this exact same style. Also, the text on the site is obviously AI, em-dashes and all. I don't have a problem with people using the tools to make stuff, but man...at least say it's generated somewhere.

New comment by royal__ in "Knowing Steam players are hoarders explains why you give Valve that 30%"

royal__ — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:13:02 +0000

The sales are definitely a huge draw. I don't know of any other product that can get marked down over 50% semi-regularly like video games can. It makes it feel like an incredible value, in comparison to everything else we spend money on. Not to mention, there are many games that will get marked down to less than 5 dollars that you could easily spend hundreds of hours in. Terraria is a good example.