Based on the news and conversations I have with people, the general population is having intimate conversations with these chatbots. In the name of ads, all this data will be mined, and humans will be tagged with categories, and that info will be sold. It’s not if, it’s when.

Or ASML devices

I really enjoyed playing around with this, thanks for sharing. You can tell a lot of care and effort went into the experience. I’m curious: did you use any AI tools while building it or was that all done manually?

Oh man, I can’t stop using this app. It’s been 2 hours

I If I had to choose an online community that resonates with me, it would be Hacker News. For years, it's served as my muse, therapist, book club, and intellectual playground; all rolled into one. I deeply value the culture it fosters, especially the emphasis on thoughtful discussion.

Paul Graham’s essay "How to Disagree" remains essential reading for anyone engaging in online discourse . It provides a clear framework for constructive debate, and I agree that posts falling into the lowest forms of disagreement (ad hominem attacks or name calling) deserve to be flagged.

Yet, I share your concern, sometimes a post isn’t inherently bad, but attracts low quality replies. Flagging the entire thread in such cases feels disproportionate like amputating a limb just because there’s an itch you can’t scratch. It risks silencing potentially valuable discussion due to the behavior of a few.

I empathize with the moderators. Their job is thankless and difficult, and I appreciate that the warnings we see aren’t automated bots but messages from real humans trying their best. We all have limits and that’s ok.

The sympathy I have for mods is very real. But I do want to mention that flagging is typically not a moderator activity (afaik). Hacker News allows anyone whose been around for a bit to join in suppressing whatever they feel like. There's very few checks or balances on this. There's no accountability. Silent veto, silent death.

This Black Mirror episode is so track from being sci-fi to reality. This will happen in the long horizon with at least the way LLMs are chatting with us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror)

This is so fascinating. I have been snowboarding for at least 15 years and had no idea that this was done by hand. The maps are so clear, specifically when you have multiple mountains with many one-way slopes across them. Next time I mindlessly throw away these art pieces, I will remember “Monet of the mountains”. Also will definitely share this story with someone on the chair lift ride.

I think the author slips into the same pattern he’s criticizing. He says LLM fans shouldn’t label skeptics as “afraid” then he turns around and labels the fans as “insecure” or “not very good at programming.” It’s the same move; guessing what’s going on in someone’s head instead of sticking to what actually happened and what the tools can or can’t do. The simpler truth is LLMs are great in some cases and painful in others. They shine on boilerplate and tests. They struggle when the domain is unusual, requirements are fuzzy; mistakes are made, you pay a big babysitting tax.

Instead of psychoanalyzing each other, people should share concrete examples

It's not fans that he's criticizing but evangelists.

Thanks for pointing it out. I actually meant evangelists

I totally agree the comment threads are definitely wild. People always assume we are against the technology. We expect more precision from machines, and that’s why they exist. Many people getting killed in car accidents is irrelevant to what we saw on the video. We expect more from them and their creators, and we do not want to see experiments on roads where we drive our kids.

I tried placing trackball on different positions especially with ploopy nano trackball and then with readymade options like UHK; none of them were comfortable enough. I now use the Logitech trackball which feels very convenient.