Hacker News: vinyl7

New comment by vinyl7 in "Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post"

vinyl7 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:39:56 +0000

> We’re in some weird stage of capitalism where everything is a grift and nobody really cares anymore.

I've felt this way for a long time now. There's no substance to anything anymore. The US economy feels like a more advanced Nigerian scam, where very few things that the US makes provides anything of actual value and substance. Americans just can't afford quality anymore. We decided we'd like to have significant amounts of garbage rather than fewer quality things. This change was likely due to revving the economy toward quarterly profit goals and GDP growth over everything else. Theoretically, prioritizing investments should have "trickled down" where companies could have more capital to invest in workers, R&Dand quality...but instead it all just got soaked up into executive pay and the stock market.

New comment by vinyl7 in "Bot vs human traffic"

vinyl7 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:36:03 +0000

I'm looking forward to the fraud lawsuites for ad companies

New comment by vinyl7 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

vinyl7 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:29:09 +0000

The birthrate across all western nations has been below replacement levels for quite a while. All nations will see population shrink in the coming decades (aside from labor importation)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11537490/

New comment by vinyl7 in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

vinyl7 — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:26:29 +0000

What went wrong is using LLM generated code

New comment by vinyl7 in "The dead economy theory"

vinyl7 — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:19:24 +0000

Most are...it's pretty much required to be a psychopath to climb the ladder to the top

New comment by vinyl7 in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

vinyl7 — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:51:46 +0000

Probably a lie tbh

New comment by vinyl7 in "TanStack NPM Packages Compromised"

vinyl7 — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:25:00 +0000

The only correct answer

New comment by vinyl7 in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

vinyl7 — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:11:49 +0000

The US government is a feckless facade, the US is a corporation run economic zone. The nice thing about being corporate run is that the rulers are unelected and unaccountable!

New comment by vinyl7 in "Life During Class Wartime"

vinyl7 — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:26:01 +0000

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/unitedhealth-prior-aut...

New comment by vinyl7 in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

vinyl7 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:58:25 +0000

The goal of art isn't to be perfect or as realistic as possible. The goal of art is to express, and enjoy that unique expression.

New comment by vinyl7 in "Not buying another Kindle"

vinyl7 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:58:37 +0000

The future is physical media that can't be taken away or modified by the monopolies

New comment by vinyl7 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

vinyl7 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:41:37 +0000

> AI? If everyone is broke because all the jobs got automated, who is buying the products to supply revenue to the companies

Does it matter if you're already a rich oligarch with generational wealth? All these ceos have enough money to last several decades beyond their life span, it doesn't matter to them is the slave class croaks

New comment by vinyl7 in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

vinyl7 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:21:34 +0000

It may exist (with a loose term of exist) but they are all mostly garbage. There's still plenty opportunity to make non-garbage version of things that already exist

Krafton CEO Asked ChatGPT How He Could Avoid Paying Subnautica 2 Dev Bonuses

vinyl7 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:45:51 +0000

Article URL: https://80.lv/articles/krafton-ceo-reportedly-asked-chatgpt-how-he-could-avoid-paying-subnautica-2-developers-bonuses

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47403045

Points: 31

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New comment by vinyl7 in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

vinyl7 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:05:06 +0000

Build the pyramids

New comment by vinyl7 in "Study shows two child household must earn $400k/year to afford childcare"

vinyl7 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:07:01 +0000

Taxing the rich means that there are fewer people with absurd money, which means businesses won't have many customers at such high prices. It's like McDonalds charging $5 for a quarter of a potato. They're hoping that the lost sales from the poors at such a high price is made up by fewer high priced purchases by the rich.

If even the rich couldn't or didnt want to afford $5 quarter potatoes then they'd have to lower the price

New comment by vinyl7 in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

vinyl7 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:05:05 +0000

We live in a technofeudalist society now, we're all at the whims of the tech corps

New comment by vinyl7 in "Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails"

vinyl7 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:23:52 +0000

Everyone should go back and watch The Matrix again

Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions

vinyl7 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:30:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/open-source-game-engine-godot-is-drowning-in-ai-slop-code-contributions-i-dont-know-how-long-we-can-keep-it-up/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055463

Points: 16

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New comment by vinyl7 in "Testing Ads in ChatGPT"

vinyl7 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:35:27 +0000

Kinda sad that in 3 decades into the tech industry the only viable business model is to build a moat and then sell ads