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1•surprisetalk•31s ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
1•surprisetalk•32s ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
1•surprisetalk•36s ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-fro...
1•pseudolus•1m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•1m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•2m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/business/winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange-cuts-25-of-workfor...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•3m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
1•obscurette•3m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•4m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple – a bytecode VM and language stack I built with AI

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•8m ago•0 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

https://tesseract-thread.vercel.app/
1•agliolioyyami•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe Colors – Instantly visualize color palettes on UI layouts

https://vibecolors.life/
1•tusharnaik•10m ago•0 comments

OpenAI is Broke ... and so is everyone else [video][10M]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•10m ago•0 comments

We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•11m ago•0 comments

State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
6•derriz•12m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•12m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A fast TUI for managing Azure Key Vault secrets written in Rust

https://github.com/jkoessle/akv-tui-rs
1•jkoessle•12m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•13m ago•0 comments

Discuss – Do AI agents deserve all the hype they are getting?

2•MicroWagie•16m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•16m ago•1 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
3•jackhalford•18m ago•1 comments

Neutron Scans Reveal Hidden Water in Martian Meteorite

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/neutron-scans-reveal-hidden-water-in-famous-martian-meteorite
1•geox•19m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
1•fortran77•20m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
3•nar001•23m ago•2 comments

SpaceX Delays Mars Plans to Focus on Moon

https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/spacex-delays-mars-plans-to-focus-on-moon-66d5c542
1•BostonFern•23m ago•0 comments

Jeremy Wade's Mighty Rivers

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyOro6vMGsP_xkW6FXxsaeHUkD5e-9AUa
1•saikatsg•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP App to play backgammon with your LLM

https://github.com/sam-mfb/backgammon-mcp
2•sam256•25m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

But why is AI bad?

https://daymare.net/blogs/but-why-is-ai-bad/
5•victorbuilds•2mo ago

Comments

zerosizedweasle•2mo ago
AI is bad because it is eating all the capital in the economy and suffocating everything else.
api•2mo ago
This is a bubble.

It reminds me more of the dot.com bubble than any other. I was in college but also working in the field then and saw that one come and go.

It’s like the dot.com bubble in that yes, there is a lot of “there” there, but there is also a ton of premature hype and speculation. What reminds me most of dot.com is how people are shoehorning AI into everything to ride the hype wave. During dot.com there were cases of boring companies adding .com to their name or opening an online division and seeing their stocks increase 10X in 24 hours.

zerosizedweasle•2mo ago
Yeah. Right now the combination of high interest rates on my student loans (because the bubble has kept it artificially high) and career prospects make life bleak. It's not enough when the fed lowers rates a bump. All that gets eaten up by the bubble.
derangedHorse•2mo ago
Everything seems like a bubble to the people who got burned in the dot com era. Hype is automatically attributed to there being money disproportionately flowing to vaporware. That isn’t what I’ve observed. I think a lot of the current AI companies will fail, but I don’t think it’ll be from a failure to deliver a product or generate revenue. I also don’t think there have been valuations or investments that are any more extreme than they have been in the last decade.
lionkor•2mo ago
My main issue is that people assume that their AI generated slop is interesting.

You may generate whatever you want, but if I ask a question, I don't want an AI answer. If I did, I would have asked an AI.

If I look for an image, I do not want an AI image. If I did, I would have asked an AI.

If I look for information, research, papers, opinions, videos, audio, music, etc. I do not want an AI version. If I wanted that, I would have asked an AI.

capestart•2mo ago
AI isn’t inherently evil, it’s just a tool. the real problem is when companies use it to cheap out or replace people entirely. indie dev using AI to document a side project isn’t the villain, that’s just survival. the convo should be about power + intent, not blanket “AI bad” takes.
derangedHorse•2mo ago
> Selling AI generated slop at full price

I think that’s for the market to correct. If people don’t spend money on AI generated products because they’re bad, that’ll send a signal to the company to pivot from their current strategy. If people are spending money on those things regardless, then maybe that’s an indicator that these processes create better output than what was present before. At the end of the day, in the absence of state intervention, the market will pick what’s best for them and consumers will react in ways that may surprise the online virtue signalers.