Hacker News: squidsoup

New comment by squidsoup in "'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey"

squidsoup — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:28:48 +0000

Well, not a good analogy really, most of the old masters used cameras regularly, and there's a history of camera use for painting that extends from the northern renaissance to modernity.

New comment by squidsoup in "FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks"

squidsoup — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:20:09 +0000

.si domain grift, probably.

New comment by squidsoup in "A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs"

squidsoup — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:31:02 +0000

The environment the coffee is served in is a significant part of the business.

New comment by squidsoup in "C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality"

squidsoup — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 03:05:01 +0000

Isn't film photography verifiable with a physical negative? i.e. you could verify a digital reproduction of the analog photo by comparing the digital image with the negative. Tedious, but sound?

New comment by squidsoup in "German advocacy group lodges criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses"

squidsoup — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:52:44 +0000

That doesn't change the fact that its an iconic American brand, directly associated with American culture and design.

New comment by squidsoup in "German advocacy group lodges criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses"

squidsoup — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:42:23 +0000

Heads should be rolling at Ray-Ban, they've permanently tarnished an iconic American brand by aligning themselves with big tech.

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

squidsoup — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:17:53 +0000

The majority of artists abhor AI, this is a particularly bad example.

New comment by squidsoup in "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage"

squidsoup — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:14:36 +0000

> I just want cool pictures hanging on my wall.

That's decoration, not art.

> Now every person can make satisfying music. It’s incredible and amazing and should be celebrated because suddenly everyone can participate.

No one should be celebrating the theft of music from artists. Everyone can participate in making music today just as they always have throughout human history - learn to sing or play an instrument.

New comment by squidsoup in "An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan"

squidsoup — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:09:51 +0000

Greek mythology is full of sex, and the Odyssey is no exception.

New comment by squidsoup in "An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan"

squidsoup — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:46:54 +0000

> "The Odyssey features his usual combination of grandiosity and superficiality".

A pretty succinct summation of Nolan as a filmmaker.

New comment by squidsoup in "Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users"

squidsoup — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:04:46 +0000

It's a pity that Apple neglects its creative apps. I've been working on a video project using Motion recently, and while not as capable as After Effects, it's pretty serviceable and with some love could be excellent.

New comment by squidsoup in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco"

squidsoup — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:38:48 +0000

Very impressive. How are you managing to produce such a clean model without artifacts?

New comment by squidsoup in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

squidsoup — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:39:43 +0000

Nonsense. Ray Harryhausen's work today is still incredible, by any standard.

New comment by squidsoup in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

squidsoup — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:35:41 +0000

Please stop using AI for creative work. This is utterly abysmal.

New comment by squidsoup in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

squidsoup — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:03:11 +0000

> That's because sandboxing is quite hard

colima makes it pretty easy, on macOS and linux at any rate.

https://colima.run

New comment by squidsoup in "GPT‑Live"

squidsoup — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:35:11 +0000

> Dammit! I live in Europe and the cyber truck isn't even available here..

Europeans are notorious for their good taste.

New comment by squidsoup in "Programmers need to start meditating"

squidsoup — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:01:44 +0000

The thing about meditation is, if you're doing it, there is no "you" that it is either good or bad for.

New comment by squidsoup in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

squidsoup — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:58:03 +0000

> Optimism in general is out of fashion, and pessimism is pervasive.

Hardly surprising given we are not collectively making sufficient change to avert climate disaster. There’s no negative bias or spin there - the majority of climate scientists agree that we’ve passed the tipping point.

New comment by squidsoup in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

squidsoup — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:23:02 +0000

> It's actually not so hard for me to just not take part in social media

Unfortunately that’s not quite as easy for people in creative professions that must now use social media to promote themselves and their work.

New comment by squidsoup in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

squidsoup — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:13:07 +0000

OpenStack already exists