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If you can't be bothered writing it, I can't be bothered reading it

https://crookedtimber.org/2026/08/04/if-you-cant-be-bothered-writing-it-i-cant-be-bothered-reading-it/
8•speckx•1h ago

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tuatoru•47m ago
TL;DR

And saw a few AI tells on the scroll down. The use of the the word 'honest' in any of its forms, and short sentences in headings.

Rule One for writers: respect the readers' time. Strip out every unnecessary word. Every.

Austiiiiii•7m ago
Honestly I feel the same way about this new swarm of Claude-empowered "ideas guys" complaining on Reddit that they can't get any paying users for their "revolutionary new product" that invariably offers very little of value, and, helpfully, comes bubble-wrapped in the same nauseatingly sanitized and generic UI you see on every other product genned from scratch by an LLM with no specific input from a human. And then half the time the actual "product" is little more than a wrapper for raw queries to an LLM, with menus and buttons to make it look like a real and functioning product.

If you couldn't even be bothered to pay a human to make the damned product you're selling me, why should a human pay you to use it? Ask Claude to be your user—I'm sure he'll be more than happy to oblige.

That's not to discount EVERYTHING coded by agents—I've definitely seen a lot of genuinely useful new LLM-coded apps and services that meet a real need—but there's a clear difference between an app that used LLMs as a force multiplier for someone who knows what they're doing, and an app that used LLMs to cut the expert out of the process and create something out of nothing.

Classified cancer treatment research with parasite released after 60 years

1•yde_java•13s ago•0 comments

A probability grid of chain-of-thought, read through Boyd's OODA loop lens

https://adamsohn.com/reasoning-grid/
1•dataviz1000•1m ago•0 comments

Notes from the AI Coding Transition

https://emschwartz.me/notes-from-the-ai-coding-transition/
1•emschwartz•1m ago•0 comments

Month on Vegan Diet Shifts Epigenetic Patterns Assoc with Aging and Inflammation

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/one-month-on-a-vegan-diet-shifts-epigenetic-patterns-associated-with...
1•littlexsparkee•1m ago•0 comments

Ambient Lighting on Your Mac

https://www.trylumn.xyz/
1•arkancharla•1m ago•0 comments

Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Monde%27s_100_Books_of_the_Century
1•chistev•2m ago•0 comments

Why cloning an app with vibe coding is doomed to fail

https://livablesoftware.com/why-cloning-an-app-with-vibe-coding-fails/
2•softmodeling•3m ago•0 comments

I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

https://runarcn.no/android-to-linux/
1•speckx•3m ago•0 comments

DuckDB surpassed 40 000 stars on GitHub

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/05/github-40k-stars
1•zazuke•4m ago•0 comments

Ghost Towns

https://ghosttownpix.com/
1•nivethan•5m ago•0 comments

Locunity covers democracy, not infrastructure

https://render.com/customers/locunity
1•1zael•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cloud based firecracker VMs for agents, with email, domains and wallets

https://zipbox.ai/setup/claude
1•hishboy•5m ago•0 comments

Kimi K3 on AWS Bedrock?

1•claude-ai•5m ago•0 comments

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-that-contained-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-imagery/
3•malshe•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: HomeCat – Turn a phone video into permit-ready building plans

https://myhomecat.com
2•dearilos•8m ago•0 comments

China's A.I. Is Surging Across Africa. That Should Worry Silicon Valley

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/ai-china-africa.html
1•pseudolus•8m ago•1 comments

Tesla to Open Source Software and Design for Model S and Model X

https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/4490/tesla-to-make-design-and-software-for-model-s-and-model-x-...
2•m463•10m ago•0 comments

"Triple Threat": Paul Ford on LLMs and Ontologies/Knowledge Graphs

https://aboard.com/triple-threat/
1•drewda•10m ago•0 comments

Get a Horse America's Skepticism Toward the First Automobiles (2017)

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/01/get-horse-americas-skepticism-toward-first-automobiles/
2•downbad_•12m ago•0 comments

Pensions Buy Fewer Babies. Cutting Them Costs Votes

https://julienreszka.com/blog/pensions-buy-fewer-babies-cutting-them-costs-votes/
2•julienreszka•13m ago•2 comments

How to Be a Usually-Right Contrarian

https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/how-to-be-a-usually-right-contrarian
2•jger15•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Small Craft launches Seamside (Web3 P2P hosting/collab)

https://smlcrft.com/thoughts/its-open/
1•akumpf•16m ago•0 comments

First poo transplant to treat food allergy in people has results

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02440-5#ref-CR1
1•geneticdrifts•18m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why mobile software infrastructure never belongs to its owner?

2•rezvovmobile•19m ago•0 comments

The State of Agentic Memory

https://twitter.com/moorcheh_ai/status/2085082985292767728
2•supportm•19m ago•0 comments

Ninth Circuit: Your AI Agent Can't Violate Hacking Law. But You Might

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/05/ninth-circuit-your-ai-agent-cant-violate-hacking-law-but-you-...
2•speckx•19m ago•0 comments

Website Down or Not? Check If a Site Is Down for Everyone?

https://websitedownornot.com/
1•badz•19m ago•0 comments

The Job Board Is Lying to You

https://nanomicon.com/blog/260730-the-job-board-is-lying-to-you
3•theHocineSaad•20m ago•0 comments

Unlocking the future of shared storage: Filestore on Colossus

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/filestore-file-service-runs-on-colossus
1•leg•23m ago•0 comments

Can you tell AI from human-authored code and should you even care?

https://codedelta.app/article-ai-vs-human.html
1•code-delta-app•23m ago•0 comments