Hacker News: the_biot

New comment by the_biot in "Leave Me Behind"

the_biot — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:10:53 +0000

You know it's random nonsense, and yet you still take it on faith that it "gives you answers". That's what makes me despair about all the AI nonsense: it's the death of intellect. Not the death of deep thinking, but of common sense.

I can't wait for the day until all these people collectively snap out of it, and go "what the hell were we thinking with these chatbots".

New comment by the_biot in "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer"

the_biot — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:43:27 +0000

As a matter of fact he's a never-ending source of drama and outrage, all of which are his own opinions. His repair channel isn't even about repair anymore, it's all drama, all the time. I can hardly believe people fall for his shtick anymore.

New comment by the_biot in "We need a federation of forges"

the_biot — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:07:34 +0000

Is the code base AI slop? You've published your code as open source, but without an explicit AI policy.

New comment by the_biot in "Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team"

the_biot — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:21:10 +0000

In the age of meme stocks, NFTs, vibe coding and orange clowns in the white house, no, it's not obvious. The world has gone right past satire and into a reality of collective delusion.

New comment by the_biot in "Show HN: Browse GitHub repos in Emacs without cloning"

the_biot — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:01:50 +0000

But github now handles so much more traffic, without a doubt. I'm not so sure their infrastructure is keeping up, but if it is, the current sluggishness may just be its speed under any load.

If you want to see what it should be, check any forgejo/codeberg repo.

New comment by the_biot in "Our newsroom AI policy"

the_biot — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:44:58 +0000

When that slop article incident happened, I thought their reaction to it was MUCH too late -- they should have fired the journalist in question immediately, and come out hard against slop writing. I stopped reading Ars Technica because of it, and will not follow links to their site.

Now that they've finally come out with an official policy, I see I was right.

New comment by the_biot in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

the_biot — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:37:29 +0000

Right. People on here are just ignoring the fact that the fantastically expensive metaverse effort has failed, and it's pretty obvious that people working on it thus no longer have anything to do, so will mostly be let go. The article even mentions this as a likely cause.

I mean I get it, Meta is evil, inefficient etc, but this layoff round seems pretty predictable.

New comment by the_biot in "Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports"

the_biot — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:25:14 +0000

That's literally advocating for filling the kernel with AI slop.

Not that it's not going to happen; Linus is already a vibe-coder, and several maintainers have fallen for the LLM crap as well.

New comment by the_biot in "Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days"

the_biot — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:18:45 +0000

You have to wonder why it's so hard to put that on their 503 error page. I suspect something's much more broken than they're letting on.

New comment by the_biot in "Tesla reportedly developing new smaller, cheaper EV after killing Model 2"

the_biot — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:54:03 +0000

Because while Musk is certainly running Tesla into the ground, without him it would sink even faster. Without his hype jacking up the share price, it's just a carmaker with 2.5 models, cratering sales, fast obsoleting tech, and no new models in the near pipeline.

All the shareholders can do is hang on to the ride for as long as they can.

New comment by the_biot in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"

the_biot — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:01:04 +0000

Indeed. What's new is not referring to someone of unknown gender as "they", but rather people identifying as non-gender-specific, and wanting to be referred to as "they". That's the part that feels so awkward, IMHO, not simply they as one person.

New comment by the_biot in "Show HN: Anos – a hand-written ~100KiB microkernel for x86-64 and RISC-V"

the_biot — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:51:46 +0000

Nah, it's just AI slop, despite OP's "hand-written" protestation.

New comment by the_biot in "Show HN: TinyOS – A minimalist RTOS for Cortex-M written in C"

the_biot — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:19:33 +0000

This site is very much drowning in all the slop. It's over half of posts now I think, not just the "Show HN" posts. Those are 100% slop, as are all the non-show-hn new project announcements.

All the moderators have done is drop Show HN posts by newish accounts. It fixed nothing. I have to hope they have some ambitious plan along the lines of what you suggest.

New comment by the_biot in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

the_biot — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:48:25 +0000

I have never, ever understood this whole mandated period thing. Aside from what you mention -- do you really want to keep these people around against their will -- I don't understand how your (ex-)employer can force you to do anything against your will. All you have to do is say "no".

Yet people keep believing mandated work after a layoff is a thing.

New comment by the_biot in "A nearly perfect USB cable tester"

the_biot — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:03:03 +0000

Yup, that's the sort of thing that's typically missing from cable testers. I have a USB cable that normally works fine, but introduces errors when doing full blast USB 2.0 bulk transfers. I keep it around just in case I ever come across a tester that can show me this in hard numbers.

New comment by the_biot in "AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion"

the_biot — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:22:36 +0000

Truly sad. It looks like Kent is pretty deep in the AI delusion. This is a guy who, while often controversial and with obvious issues, was nevertheless a very talented and energetic programmer.

New comment by the_biot in "The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)"

the_biot — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:37:11 +0000

Common in desktop software for controlling measurement gear like oscilloscopes. Those have actual knobs on the equipment, so the software does the same thing and it's the worst thing ever.

New comment by the_biot in "Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes"

the_biot — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:28:51 +0000

His non-apology apology even follows a familiar pattern: I wrote it myself but just used AI for some help, and it inserted false quotes! Bad tech! But I have now learned my lesson!

Very similar to what a rector recently wrote when she got busted giving an AI-generated speech in her inaugural speech in her new university job.

None of it is true, of course. These people are just sorry they got caught.

New comment by the_biot in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"

the_biot — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:27:54 +0000

No, it's worse than that. The city council very much implemented an anti-car (harassment) policy, to the point that car owners felt hounded by their own council's policies. It seriously wasn't a matter of "marginally less privileged".

New comment by the_biot in "Liberated Systemd"

the_biot — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:54:04 +0000

So this looks like a spite fork intended to make a point, not likely to become a widely used fork of systemd.

However, 1) he is right, and 2) systemd's recent full-throated embrace of AI for programming make it clear that systemd really is in dire need of a fork. This project has gone full corporate insanity.

I was never one of the vocal anti-systemd folks (I think it's a huge improvement over SysV-style boot stuff), but the risk of this project was always the monoculture aspect. It's on approximately every Linux install, and it's going bad FAST.