What the post is describing sounds exactly like the post getting flagged by users, then uncensored by the mod team later on.

Ah, maybe that’s true. I confess I stopped hanging around HN years ago so I’m not up to speed on how ‘flagging’ works and how much influence users have over post visibility. I thought the OP made it clear that something ‘inorganic’ was going on, but I guess that could be user reports just as easily as it could be moderator action.

Either way, it’s still true that getting your tech news from Silicon Valley’s most darling tech incubator is a dumb idea.

I don’t know, I think they make a reasonable case to suggest that someone is putting their finger on the scale.

But, honestly… duh? Y Combinator is one of the most influential investment firms in Silicon Valley. Of course they’re going to try to protect the image of their chosen investments.

Honestly the bigger story here is that people in tech continue to be so willfully ignorant of stuff like this. Big Tech is not benevolent. If you want unbiased tech news, don’t fucking get it from a company that has such a vested interest in the success of SV tech companies. You’d think that would be obvious.

Sounds like something a cop might do.

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I gotta say, you really can’t help get a racist vibe off of the media obsession with comparing a Chinese man to a yellow skinned cartoon character over and over and over and over again.

That meme started in China and is broadly viewed as a symbol of resistance against the current regime, but okay.

AI slop gonna ai slop

That perfectly describes what my day-to-day has become at work (not by choice).

The only way to get anywhere close to production-ready code is to do like you just described, and the process is incredibly tedious and frustrating. It also isn’t really any faster than just writing the code myself (unless I’m satisfied with committing slop) and in the end, I still don’t understand the code I’ve ‘written’ as well as if I’d done it without AI. When you write code yourself there’s a natural self-reinforcement mechanism, the same way that taking notes in class improves your understanding/retention of the information better than when just passively listening. You don’t get that when vibe coding (no matter how knowledgeable you are and how diligent you are about babysitting it), and the overall health of the app suffers a lot.

The AI tools are also worse than useless when it comes to debugging, so good fucking luck getting it to fix the bugs it inevitably introduces…

Typical C-suite. It takes them three months to come to the same conclusion that would be blindingly obvious to anyone with half a brain: if you build something that no one understands, you’ll end up with something impossible to maintain.

I’m sorry… a smart toilet camera? WTF??

ETA: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T1p_dUU_6uQ

100s of MB in dictionaries and JIT compiler caches

Don’t forget the hundreds of MBs of NPM dependencies

Alternate title:

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that ruined the Internet

The author of this article is literally the Principal Skinner meme

they still said that they love Google and use all of its products — they just didn’t expect it to release a program that can make a massive error such as this, especially because of its countless engineers and the billions of dollars it has poured into AI development.

I honestly don’t understand how someone can exist on the modern Internet and hold this view of a company like Google.

How? How?

record Profits

Then what’s OpenAI’s excuse?

Wait… are you telling me that an agency named after a meme was fundamentally unserious??

What’s to stop some pedo from just holding a picture of a child up to the camera to subvert the face verification?

Exactly. The H1-B program has been so abused by the tech industry that it’s basically just indentured servitude.

Bring in low-cost labor from India, including their families, then tie their visa status to their employment so that if they’re ever fired, they immediately get deported. Those workers are going to be too scared to demand better wages/benefits for fear of being fired, which drives down the cost of labor for US citizens in the same industry who now have to compete for jobs against these workers.

And all the while, companies get to “sane wash” what is essentially the same thing as the “outsourcing” that they were all so maligned for in the 2000s.

Nvidia down ~8% this week, Palantir down ~10%

Maybe the needle really is shifting.

The guy that created the subreddit, Violentacrez, was also the “victim” of an expose by Gawker who found out his real life identity. Reddit tried protecting him by banning links to Gawker when the article came out.

I remember when this happened. Violentacrez himself showed up in one of the threads that didn’t get nuked and tried to defend himself. I remember his (heavily down-voted) comments all being surrounded by dozens and dozens of [deleted] comments — presumably people attacking him for being a pedo piece of shit.

I’d never heard of the guy before, but I was so disgusted by the story and by his attempts to justify himself that I went back through weeks of his old posts, down-voting everything.

The next day, I came back to a week-long temp ban from Reddit for vote manipulation. Fuckers.

he lauded Reddit as being “for humans by humans” and seemed to take a subtle dig at AI slop (the low-quality AI content clogging corners of the internet)

That’s pretty funny coming from the CEO of a platform that was already overrun by low-effort bots even before AI slop became a thing…