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Sick of A.I. Slop? So Are Tech Giants

uxhacker — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:22:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/technology/ai-slop.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340855

Points: 3

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New comment by uxhacker in "Marketers are Addicted to Bad Data (2020)"

uxhacker — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:06:55 +0000

You competitors?

Russia's Starlink replacement. What is known about the Rassvet system?

uxhacker — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:07:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2026/08/08/8047858/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231562

Points: 3

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New comment by uxhacker in "No one can afford to make Myst games anymore"

uxhacker — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:16:17 +0000

But the original game was very playable and fun. There are plenty of modern games that only have a tiny bit more game play.

New comment by uxhacker in "No one can afford to make Myst games anymore"

uxhacker — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:15:14 +0000

I think out of the original team there where only 1 and half developers.

New comment by uxhacker in "No one can afford to make Myst games anymore"

uxhacker — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:17:16 +0000

What the article misses is that the first game was made by just roughly 6 people on the development team.

What has happened is the number of people working on games has become ridiculously large.

New comment by uxhacker in "What is a product?"

uxhacker — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:37:19 +0000

I hate the ‘product’ word. In the 90’s I was involved in a travel startup, and the software people would be talking about ‘product’ meaning the website that we where building, and the travel people meant what we where offering in the way of hotels, insurance, flights and excursions.

The word ‘product just left everyone confused.

If one uses a word like platform, application, prototype, offering, ‘products’ this makes it clearer than just the generic ‘product’. It’s even better if goal is applied as well. For example Flight finder Application, or Video Playback Platform.

AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds

uxhacker — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:29:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/ai-generated-stories-rated-better-quality-than-human-written-ones-study-finds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49177118

Points: 4

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New comment by uxhacker in "Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory"

uxhacker — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:24:09 +0000

Ukraine is using old training aircraft with a guy with a shotgun in the back shooting the drones down.

Just think the small Cessnas and pipers littered around that could be used for a similar task.

https://youtu.be/GrzzYTXgnMQ?is=zChAgYfc5ZEi25gt

Edited out bad grammer

New comment by uxhacker in "Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic"

uxhacker — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:20:24 +0000

The author states that he did not join because he did not believe he would have influenced them.

I feel from reading this that Anthropic would benefit from the work of the Nobel Laureate Herb Simon and his book the Philosophy of the Artificial.

So Simon argues that whilst traditional Meta Physics is about physical properties, with artificial creations it is different, what they do is more important than how they are made.

It more important that a watch tells the time than that it contains cogs and crystals.

A computer is defined not by the silicon that it made of but by the software it runs.

So with AI what is important is its function. We don’t need understand how the neurons are wired together

Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic

uxhacker — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:45:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/bdb3b820-905b-431e-82c0-386535755af1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049807

Points: 7

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New comment by uxhacker in "Map of the world's great castles and fortresses"

uxhacker — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:21:36 +0000

It is also important in context to include castles in Africa to show that the area did contain castles. This fact often surprises people that Africa has castles and some of them dating back to the 11 century.

For example just by looking from my eye you are missing Lamu Castle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamu_Fort Siyu Fort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siyu Thimlich Ohingahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thimlich_Ohinga

And then in Tanzania you have the Gerezani Fort in Kilwa Kisiwani, the Old Fort of Zanzibar, the German Fort in Bagamoyo. And then Taleh Fort in Somalia.

I have not even started on either Mozambique, or Angola.

New comment by uxhacker in "Map of the world's great castles and fortresses"

uxhacker — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:10:06 +0000

The importance of the definition is to actually save the castles. For example in Lower Silesia in Poland, which was Germany, and Czech before, there where about 2000 Castles (Schloss's). Now many of these castles lay in ruins. By only including the popular ones like this map does it means the less famous ones will become even less popular, and a piece of history will disappear.

New comment by uxhacker in "Dupes took over the world"

uxhacker — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:00:17 +0000

That was exactly the point. The fame came from the number of copies of the painting.

Some people say brands like Gucci became more famous because of the number copies made.

New comment by uxhacker in "Dupes took over the world"

uxhacker — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:06:43 +0000

But as the Frankfurt School Famously said about the Mona Lisa that the copies make the original. In other words the copies give the original all the publicity to make it famous.

New comment by uxhacker in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

uxhacker — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:34:33 +0000

Is this because of the cost of memory or because the product is no longer competitive?

New comment by uxhacker in "Shooting Starlink: The "no limits" partnership between Russia and China"

uxhacker — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:32:53 +0000

So they can be disabled from the ground? Why has russia not thought of that? Is that why Starlink is actually concerned about them been used by Ukraine?

New comment by uxhacker in "Shooting Starlink: The "no limits" partnership between Russia and China"

uxhacker — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:22:15 +0000

I wonder if the us has a means of protecting the Starlink satellites?

New comment by uxhacker in "Shooting Starlink: The "no limits" partnership between Russia and China"

uxhacker — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:33:45 +0000

The story is a joint joint investigation with Le Monde and Der Spiegel:

Der Spiegel: https://www.spiegel.de/ ausland/china-und-russland-recherchen-zeigen-ausmass-der-militaerkooperation-a-46fa7894-0b2c-411b-ba21-cc7c6b053c3f Le Monde: https://www.lemonde.fr/m- le-mag/article/2026/07/09/entre-pekin-et-moscou-de-tres-secrets-forums-de-cooperation-militaire_6722048_4500055.html

Shooting Starlink: The "no limits" partnership between Russia and China

uxhacker — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:33:45 +0000

Article URL: https://theins.press/en/inv/294635

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864199

Points: 9

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