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New comment by wunderlotus in "Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine"

wunderlotus — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 01:52:00 +0000

This type of stuff just screams, “please do not use me” to me. It seems lazy and full of shortcuts on the surface, even if it might not be in reality. And im very pro AI. I’m just also very anti AI slop and regurgitated outputs.

New comment by wunderlotus in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

wunderlotus — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:34:01 +0000

Yep, because the status quo is hard to change and most people get measured, & thus, incentivized, by medium term metrics (at best). especially when investors are involved.

New comment by wunderlotus in "SoftBank 2026 AGM [pdf]"

wunderlotus — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:22:42 +0000

> One shareholder, who described herself as a "simple housewife," asked Son to nominate her son to the board of directors.

"You have great vision and skill," she said. "I would like my son to become like you."

"I'll keep that in mind," Son replied.

Goose matters aside, this was my favorite part.

New comment by wunderlotus in "The Customer Who Almost Killed Slack, Stripe, and Airbnb"

wunderlotus — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:06:22 +0000

Does anybody know how to write anymore?

New comment by wunderlotus in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

wunderlotus — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:02:23 +0000

To me, this post reads like Claude wrote it. It has that cadence of staccato, fragments, repetition, punchlines to counterbalance previous AI writing styles. I’m wondering if it’s because it was translated or if it is just AI generated writing.

New comment by wunderlotus in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

wunderlotus — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:45:38 +0000

> - If Zuckerberg could be fired, after spending a total of $235 billion on AI and having NOTHING to show for...should he be fired?

Yes, if the premise was true but it’s not.

https://opper.ai/ai-roundtable/questions/bbf5a4e9-204

New comment by wunderlotus in "Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model"

wunderlotus — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:40:30 +0000

lmao i really hope this is a real quote cuz it’s a banger

New comment by wunderlotus in "Automating myself out of development"

wunderlotus — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:24:46 +0000

This demo tool is really cool, kudos on that!

I clicked that link first even though it’s listed second bc I wanted to see the prompts. I didn’t expect the level of detail or mapping to each commit. It is rad!

That being said the landing page is soooo obviously “vibe coded” (read: AI generated).

It has that design style that Claude likes to ~ab~use. & if I’m being honest, had I clicked on the website link first, I would never have gotten to the demo bc I would’ve just dismissed it as AI slop.

New comment by wunderlotus in "Show HN: drea – podcast ad blocker"

wunderlotus — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:50:33 +0000

I see. Didn’t realize that, thanks! Care to answer the other questions?

New comment by wunderlotus in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

wunderlotus — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:16:54 +0000

Thank goodness. I was v concerned about the implications of this.

New comment by wunderlotus in "Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks"

wunderlotus — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:27:44 +0000

Damn this sounds like a tough workplace. How do ppl cope?

New comment by wunderlotus in "Show HN: Open Terminal – A Bloomberg Style App for Research"

wunderlotus — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:23:22 +0000

I’m so sick of this landing page style. It’s another iteration of It’s “purple gradient” slop. The other one is serif headline with mono kickers. Sprinkle in em dashes and punchy (non-UX writing) and voila! You’ve got yourself a Claude coded page.

Chinese firm developing AI to predict dissent, leaked documents show

wunderlotus — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:59:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/us/politics/china-ai-predicting-dissent.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364576

Points: 6

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New comment by wunderlotus in "Step 3.7 Flash"

wunderlotus — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:42:43 +0000

I don’t even see the “en” button. Have to use browser translation which distorts the website

New comment by wunderlotus in "Why I collect DLES"

wunderlotus — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:14:11 +0000

I have a bunch of games or puzzles I do (mostly) daily but never cared about the streaks or any of that. Pure enjoyment.

To answer your question: most ppl enjoy routine and the satisfaction of checking a box, no matter what that box is.

New comment by wunderlotus in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

wunderlotus — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:01:31 +0000

Which is another reason why they should be regulated as a gambling operation. It’s akin to odds making.

New comment by wunderlotus in "Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis"

wunderlotus — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:40:21 +0000

> LLMs need that "world model" view that most people have acquired by their 20s where they (hopefully) stop to ask "why" before they "do".

The next evolution of multi agent orchestration / “advisor strategy” [1] will be branded in humanized language like this. Less about tokens and capability, more about wisdom and knowledge to guide a “younger” (less capable) model. Somebody will make a billion dollars by selling it as paired programming for LLMs.

[1] https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-us...

New comment by wunderlotus in "Internet traffic in Iran increasing"

wunderlotus — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:38:27 +0000

> Don't trust 5 eyes (this includes CF)

What are CF & 5 eyes?

New comment by wunderlotus in "A few interesting modern pixel fonts"

wunderlotus — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:08:40 +0000

scrambled my brain, but very cool

New comment by wunderlotus in "Show HN: drea – podcast ad blocker"

wunderlotus — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:24:00 +0000

this is pretty cool! very nice of you to make it free. i have a couple of questions:

1) can you elaborate on how you're using audio fingerprinting for it? if the podcast host is the one reading the ads, does it still catch it?

2) how are you able to offer it for free? i imagine there has to be some cost bc some type of algo is involved (hosting, LLM processing, API calls, etc.) but i might be wrong.

3) i downloaded it and tried a podcast and the ads were not skipped. happy to share the podcast and episode for diagnosis.

4) you might be interested in downloading PodSkip. i just tried out the beta via testflight this week. it behaves similarly to your app