<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: wiether</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wiether</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:11:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=wiether" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wiether in "Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just hear Steve Ballmer yelling</p>
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<p>When you go back in a physical book, you also put a bookmark (either an actual bookmark or one of your finger) to be able to resume reading where you were, no?</p>
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<p>YMMV but my experience tells me that the more cliché something looks, the more likely it's bad/cheap.<p>I've never been in a cliché-looking restaurant that is actually decent.<p>Meanwhile, the best restaurants I know have, at best, a flag or some kind of small drawing to give a clue about their nationality, but otherwise they look like a regular local one.</p>
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<p>I'm sorry you keep bad memories of those times.<p>I could be mistaken but in my case I never forced anyone to use their artistic skills, it was actually more often voluntary from them.<p>Basically everyone was doing their part using their skills if they had some useful for the project, or just their time/sweat.<p>The relationship we had (still have, actually) was healthy enough so they could just tell us to piss off if they didn't want to do it. I particularly remember one such instance, because I ended up doing an ugly poster but when asked, I said it was the work of our skilled friend.<p>On the other hand I've been spending at least an hour per week doing sysadmin work for various groups/clubs, it's not the funniest thing in the world, particularly in the evening when I already spent the whole day doing it at work, but it's just me doing my part for the greater good!</p>
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<p>At least in this case I can't pretend I have some kind of super power since I knew beforehand that it was gen AI.<p>And also it's not like I'm saying I love all the man-made posters. Or that I never been "fooled" by gen AI content.<p>It's just that as soon as I start seeing some gen AI tells on an image, I can't unsee them and I feel disgusted by it.</p>
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<p><p><pre><code>  > Also, it's just nostalgia
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I'm not sure about that. I, myself, am not skilled enough to make a nice poster, so when I needed one, I used to asked my skilled friends to do them for me.<p>But sometimes I also purposefully made myself some Comic Sans stuff, exaggerating them in every possible way, as a joke. And it was well received because people knew it was my own work and understood the joke.<p>If I made this today, it would not be seen the same. People would thought I'm trying to fight gen AI trash or I'm nostalgic of the past. While I'm just trying to make a joke by making something awful on purpose.<p>And I couldn't do the same joke using gen AI. The "on purpose" cannot be conveyed. People would just see gen AI trash.</p>
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<p>The activities being perfectly aligned and normalized is the big tell here to me<p>Idk how to express it exactly, but I don't see how a human would have come to something like this</p>
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<p><p><pre><code>  > I'm old enough to remember that people also complained about WordArt and Clipart and too many fonts etc.
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We basically had two kinds of posters:<p><pre><code>  - those made by someone skilled/savvy (not necessarily a professional)
  - those made by someone without skills/knowledge
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The later were awful, in the sense that I would never display them in my home as a reminder of a an event I took part in.<p>But still, they were nice because you knew someone took the time to create them to promote an event and share the important information about it, and each person was producing their own awful posters.<p>Now with gen AI we have something filled with trash, everything looks the same, the important information is hard to find...<p>Sure, the variations offered in the article are a bit better and more opinionated, but they still reek AI conformity and I feel sick looking at them.</p>
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<p><p><pre><code>  > a bit too minimalistic for my liking
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I was going to say the opposite: on opening a user page, half the screen is empty/with uninteresting content. Then the actual content use big font, huge spacing.<p>You have to scroll while everything could fit in a single screen.<p>I don't know how to express it but I feel exhausted trying to consume the content.</p>
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<p>My FF being in French, I was automatically served a French version and I just couldn't understand what I was reading. Each sentence unclear, no link between sentences...</p>
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<p>AirPods already do HRM and some people already put random stuff on their ears<p>There was a trend of non-diabetic people wearing huge glucose monitoring patches on their arms<p>I don't see how an earlobe cuff would be a deterrent for non-athletes with the right marketing<p>And marketing it's all the rage since those people don't need those gadgets in the first place</p>
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<p>I know that the current state of affairs with the AI labs bros can make the old antivirus villains look like lambs; still, I don't see how anyone would like to have anything to do with those guys.</p>
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<p><p><pre><code>  > people whose knowledge of esoteric patterns and language features was their whole identity
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I came across too many of those people in my career and I can't say I'm sad that LLM are taking this away from them.<p>The worst were the ones acting as gatekeepers during hiring process. You could have built S3 and they'd still look down on you because you didn't knew about some weird feature in Java.</p>
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<p>Are you really buying and watching DVDs in 2026?<p>I bought some complete series in DVD in the past but, even putting aside the inconvenience of having to manage discs in the player, there's the quality issue.<p>I got my 1080p copies on the high seas and that's just a whole different experience.</p>
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<p>Their index being paywalled, it's not possible to answer about its content.<p>I wanted to check if the 5 customers for which I already did a change on their Cloudflare settings today where on the list, but can't do.</p>
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<p><p><pre><code>  > for home lab testing
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So you're talking about a sandbox, not a prod server hosting personal data?</p>
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<p><p><pre><code>  > just giving the LLM the ssh keys and having at it. It’s pretty good.

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I'm mostly fine letting AI write code because its easily auditable and you can follow changes through the Git history.<p>Whereas, it you let the AI go free on a server, you mostly have no idea what it did and where, so it's quite hard to audit and even harder to try and fix things.<p>So, unless relying on a declarative paradigm like NixOS does, I'm not ready to give AI the keys to my castles</p>
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<p><p><pre><code>  > So no fail over/redundancy? I think at minimum it should be two machines, so one can break.
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Do you have two instances of everything in your life?<p>It's clear this product is intended for personal use.<p>I guess you have a couch in your home. This couch can seat friends/family. Yet you don't have a spare one?</p>
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<p>Like the real ones, digital clouds can take many shapes.<p>Sometimes it means "rented virtual resources", sometimes it means "stack of intertwined services", sometimes it means "SaaS", sometimes it means "alternatives to SaaS"...<p>Here it seems to be the latter.</p>
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<p>I did, yes.<p>Particularly this one: <a href="https://lafibre.info/images/ovh/202202_incendie_ovh_strasbourg_partage_experience_sdis67_2.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://lafibre.info/images/ovh/202202_incendie_ovh_strasbou...</a><p>Only SBG1 was built from containers, it partially burnt due to its proximity to SBG2, but its SBG2, which was not built from containers, that burnt down.</p>
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