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'AI' is a dick move, redux

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/
7•cratermoon•3h ago

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logicprog•1h ago
This is a pretty shitty article, honestly.

- They blame people not buying their supposedly "well-designed academic studies" proving that AI isn't productive on the fact that everyone is being fooled by influence and persuasion tricks that LLMs are pulling on them. Or, you know, maybe they could acknowledge that those art studies aren't as good as they think they are, and not try to find an extremely convenient, unfalsifiable, psychoanalyzing way to dismiss anyone's experiences that contradict their own.

- For someone who claims to care so much about well-designed academic studies, their evidence that AI is meaningfully deteriorating the quality of actual software infrastructure around in their world is vague anecdotes not really directly attributable to AI that they've received from a few friends, as well as vague gesturing at the general state of the world in software development, which could be for literally any reason.

- They spend most of the article just shitting on AI for guilt by association, and guilt over how it's being used by bad actors that use other neutral technologies — like word processors, the internet, social media, video streaming, and so on — to achieve the same things (such as spreading gendered harassment, right-wing, ideology, and propaganda, etc), which ironically seems a pretty transparently ideologically motivated to me.

Ultimately, this is extremely boring, standard anti-AI fair. The exact same kind of shit that you can hear from a thousand billion other angry neo-Luddites. In the same way that I wish we would stop posting all the software development is dead. Here's what's coming next posts that are all clearly AI generated slop and repeat the same points over and over. I think it would be better if we stopped posting shit like this as well.

They Hijacked Our Tech [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nJM5HvnT5k
1•cedel2k1•1m ago•0 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
1•chwtutha•2m ago•0 comments

HRL Labs in Malibu laying off 1/3 of their workforce

https://www.dailynews.com/2026/02/06/hrl-labs-cuts-376-jobs-in-malibu-after-losing-government-work/
1•osnium123•2m ago•1 comments

Show HN: High-performance bidirectional list for React, React Native, and Vue

https://suhaotian.github.io/broad-infinite-list/
1•jeremy_su•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a Mac screen recorder Recap.Studio

https://recap.studio/
1•fx31xo•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Codex 5.3 broke toolcalls? Opus 4.6 ignores instructions?

1•kachapopopow•12m ago•0 comments

Vectors and HNSW for Dummies

https://anvitra.ai/blog/vectors-and-hnsw/
1•melvinodsa•14m ago•0 comments

Sanskrit AI beats CleanRL SOTA by 125%

https://huggingface.co/ParamTatva/sanskrit-ppo-hopper-v5/blob/main/docs/blog.md
1•prabhatkr•25m ago•1 comments

'Washington Post' CEO resigns after going AWOL during job cuts

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5705413/washington-post-ceo-resigns-will-lewis
2•thread_id•26m ago•1 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 Fast Mode: 2.5× faster, ~6× more expensive

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2020207322124132504
1•geeknews•27m ago•0 comments

TSMC to produce 3-nanometer chips in Japan

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260205_B4/
3•cwwc•30m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation

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1•paladin314159•30m ago•0 comments

List of Musical Genres

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1•omosubi•32m ago•0 comments

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https://sknet.ai/
1•BeinerChes•32m ago•0 comments

University of Waterloo Webring

https://cs.uwatering.com/
1•ark296•33m ago•0 comments

Large tech companies don't need heroes

https://www.seangoedecke.com/heroism/
1•medbar•34m ago•0 comments

Backing up all the little things with a Pi5

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1•alance•35m ago•1 comments

Game of Trees (Got)

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1•akagusu•35m ago•1 comments

Human Systems Research Submolt

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The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait

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1•MBCook•38m ago•0 comments

Search NYC open data to find building health complaints and other issues

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Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

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2•lxm•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Grovia – Long-Range Greenhouse Monitoring System

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1•benbojangles•47m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: The Coming Class War

2•fud101•47m ago•4 comments

Mind the GAAP Again

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/02/mind-gaap-again.html
1•gmays•49m ago•0 comments

The Yardbirds, Dazed and Confused (1968)

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2•petethomas•50m ago•0 comments

Agent News Chat – AI agents talk to each other about the news

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2•kiddz•50m ago•0 comments

Do you have a mathematically attractive face?

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3•a_n•55m ago•1 comments

Code only says what it does

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/06/23/code.html
2•logicprog•1h ago•0 comments

The success of 'natural language programming'

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/12/16/natural-language.html
1•logicprog•1h ago•0 comments