Hacker News: teaneedz

New comment by teaneedz in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

teaneedz — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:53:40 +0000

The real headline for this should have been: Someone used an AI-enabled workflow to criticize me.

Can we stop anthropomorphizing and promoting ludicrous ideas of ai's blackmailing or writing hit pieces on their own initiative already? this just contributes to the toxicity of ai that needs no help from our own misuse of language and messaging.

New comment by teaneedz in "Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags"

teaneedz — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:24:58 +0000

Would you feel the same if in 2030, all the actions you describe, work most of the time but still produce questionable output requiring time to verify and fact check due to the probabilistic nature of the LLM engine? This is unsolvable with LLMs. I don't want an embedded or agentic AI but do give me the option to pick a model of my choice and accept the risks when I want to. I don't want tainted generated summaries, replies or code in certain critical areas.

New comment by teaneedz in "Incident: Wordpress.org has blocked WP Engine customers from registry"

teaneedz — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:29:48 +0000

I'm hoping that contributors balk and are willing to walk since the ramifications are way beyond just WP Engine within the FOSS community.

New comment by teaneedz in "Do Not Mess with Scarlett Johansson"

teaneedz — Fri, 24 May 2024 20:38:24 +0000

and so I no longer watch ScarJo movies because she took Sky from us.

OTOH, Sky sounded more like Rashida Jones.

New comment by teaneedz in "Gen Z wants less sex in TV and movies"

teaneedz — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:35:10 +0000

Also less cursing please! Every streamed original or movie seems to be in some kind of competition for f-bombs and comes across as so forced and unnecessary.

New comment by teaneedz in "Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA"

teaneedz — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 01:04:12 +0000

Watch the IPO dollars. That’s what this is all about. Whoever is hitching their wagon to this IPO should be taking a serious look at management and comments made by the CEO which were clearly demonstrating immaturity and a loss of touch with both product and community. Reddit for the base is dead. What that means for the IPO will be interesting. Devaluation is in the process.

New comment by teaneedz in "Join our CEO tomorrow to discuss the API"

teaneedz — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 20:57:11 +0000

Oh there will be financial repercussions. Anyone hitching their wagon to this IPO is looking closely at management. The IPO is likely driving this in the first place but it’s based on very short term and faulty assumptions. Reddit is already on fire with moderators and content producers. The reality of this short sightedness hasn’t had enough time to sink in yet. It will though.

New comment by teaneedz in "Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps"

teaneedz — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:15:22 +0000

Are you a dev for the app or Reddit employee? The official app is a case study in bad UX design. The only positive reviews in the app store are easily identified as bot or part of paid for campaigns. The recent reviews though tell how more average users view the official app…and it’s not very good.

New comment by teaneedz in "Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use"

teaneedz — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 17:29:51 +0000

> Adding a currently playing song to a playlist will stop the music and clear the play queue.

This bugs me to no end. I'm always asking myself if a song is worth the listening interruption that will happen when I add it to a playlist.

Such a stupid low hanging bug.

New comment by teaneedz in "Turn to RSS Feeds to Regain Control of the World Wide Web"

teaneedz — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 02:10:31 +0000

How many of us did the RSS mashups with Yahoo Pipes?

Those were good days.

New comment by teaneedz in "Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed?"

teaneedz — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 01:06:53 +0000

source? seems like a rather twisted definition of empathy.

New comment by teaneedz in "Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed?"

teaneedz — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 01:00:39 +0000

back in the day, they were just called bad people as we wondered why they were still around.

New comment by teaneedz in "Things I'd Change About Auto-Correct"

teaneedz — Fri, 01 May 2020 06:12:44 +0000

For every product decision, there is some crusty adtech coke addled sleazeball asking if there's a better way to snort up more data.

I'd also take a truly fixed and useable autocorrect solution over a larger Frankenstein camera any gooey applause riddled release event of a decade.

New comment by teaneedz in "Things I'd Change About Auto-Correct"

teaneedz — Fri, 01 May 2020 03:07:18 +0000

right! you would think that maybe someone would have thought about capitalizing a lone letter i. i don't care if everything else is lowercase, but sheesh give us a capital I algorithm.

New comment by teaneedz in "Things I'd Change About Auto-Correct"

teaneedz — Fri, 01 May 2020 02:20:39 +0000

GBoard is as bad as all others and only marginally better in some situations.

A couple of minutes ago I tweeted a post that included the word somehow. GBoard changed it to *someone. I went back and highlighted the word, changed it to somehow, verified it was corrected and submitted. In some fraction of Google's wisdom, it recorrected the word back to someone. Argh

Autocorrect is a mess.

New comment by teaneedz in "Tootdon App sends a copy of every post to a central corporate server"

teaneedz — Thu, 30 May 2019 03:23:59 +0000

As a tootdon user, and somewhat privacy conscious, what are the details? Specifically, what is the tootdon parent doing wrong with posts?

As a Mastodon client, the UX is one of the best for iOS that I've used. Search works as one would expect search to work.

I'd like to know what the "evil corp" is doing to warrant the action described.

New comment by teaneedz in "Ask HN: Is Google failing at UI/UX/design simplicity in its products?"

teaneedz — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:47:17 +0000

when was google ever good at UX?

New comment by teaneedz in "Ask HN: Knowing what we know about Facebook, why do you still have an account?"

teaneedz — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 19:51:25 +0000

I haven't looked at the newsfeed or added new posts in over a couple of years. It's only used to access Pages, but I see activity stalling as quality declines. US growth is stalled and I hear nothing but negative sentiment against the Facebook brand from regular users. It's the equivalent of MySpace now, but will always have its diehard users—those who don't like change, or those who just don't get the anti-privacy and adtech poison it's built on.

We should be asking why those who left Facebook still use Instagram which is feeding the same machine.

New comment by teaneedz in "Facebook adding “fbclid” parameter to outbound links"

teaneedz — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 21:50:29 +0000

> Again, if you're saying that increasing our efficiency in sales is a bad thing, you're saying that capitalism is bad. But I've just come to see this data as something that enables product evolution to occur much faster. I see this data as something that's helping the world, mostly, get more of what it wants.

Unfortunately, I've seen too many product decisions catering to the manipulative aspects of adtech. UX often suffers, not improves with ads. Online platforms all seem to follow the same game ad monetization plan these days which results in messes like Frankensteinish apps--see official Twitter app.

As for actual hands on manufactured products or services, I'd like to know how ads improved the UX.

New comment by teaneedz in "Facebook adding “fbclid” parameter to outbound links"

teaneedz — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 18:30:28 +0000

My guess that it's the Facebook employees, advertisers and marketing people who like this.

There's a flawed belief that it's necessary. UX on the other hand suggests otherwise. AdTech is not concerned with UX though and tries to wrap targeting in some kind of pseudo user benefit—spin.

Good products and services sell even without tracking. Advertising is an economic powerhouse though and will always push for anti-UX trends because it fundamentally runs polar opposite to the user experience.