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I wrote this as a quick rant for catharsis (after it was already sold out.)
"A fool and his money are soon parted"
It feels like you could make this response to most articles criticizing a product.
Do you have any feedback on the actual content? Do you disagree?
Yeah, the genie may be out of the bottle now. I wish we weren't in this situation and cooler heads had prevailed earlier on.
I have serious concerns about how quickly this is accelerating and don't trust any of the major players (including Anthropic) to handle these concerns properly.
You might be right. Just don't expect me to cheer on the arms dealers during the arms race.
Wow this is despicable. I'm glad the California attorney general is investigating this.
It sure seems like it would be being built more slowly if these companies weren't pouring billions of dollars into building it as fast as possible.
That might give us more time to think through strategies for handling it as a society.
Isn’t this whole article about how they’re doing so right now?
Does that include the training?
Yeah that seems about right to me.
And that seems fairly balanced. Especially considering polling says more people are worried about AI than excited in the general population
Five of the top eleven posts right now are about AI:
1. Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model [https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/]
2. High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights [https://spectrum.ieee.org/high-bandwidth-flash]
3. Grok Build is open source [https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build]
4. Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf] [https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/f...]
5. An Interactive Map of AI [https://artifipedia.com/map]
I would only say the discussion on #3 is particularly negative and as others mentioned Grok has a lot of its own baggage: Elon Musk, recently uploading home directories without asking, making sexual imagery of minors, etc. (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/22/grok-ai-g...)
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So a little less than half of the top 10 stories are about AI and only 1 is negative but that one potentially has other factors at play.
Contrast this to how the general public feels about AI:
"A majority of registered voters, 57%, said they believe the risks of AI outweigh its benefits, compared with 34% who said the opposite. What’s more, a plurality of voters view AI negatively ... Just 26% of voters say they have positive feelings about AI, compared with 46% who hold negative views. In fact, the only topics with a lower net positive rating than AI in the NBC News survey were the Democratic Party and Iran."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-majority...
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Given all that, I would say HN has a more pro-AI bias than the general population. Do you disagree?
It’s bizarre to me to hear that HN has an anti-AI bent.
This is the place I see AI discussed the most. Admittedly the opinions here are mixed. A lot of people do have negative feelings but there are also a ton of pro-AI comments. There Are huge 600 comment threads about a new model release, weird rants about “Gastown”, constant “Launch HNs” for model wrappers, and people saying writing code by hand is archaic.
This is one of the most pro-AI places I spend time. The other websites I frequent are much more anti-AI and my experience in real life is that most people don’t like what AI is doing to the world (even if they grudgingly find it useful at work.)
You would rather build data centers than buy school supplies or implement a nationwide high speed commuter rail network?
It may be valuable.
It seems like a stretch to call a reimplementation novel.
I tried to get our team to enforce a max PR size.
It worked for a while. There is a GitHub action that you can configure to fail if the PR is too large.
But then we started a new project and I didn’t add it right away since it’s a small team and I figured we could use the honor system.
Since then there have been lots of massive PRs but there’s not much willingness to go back to enforcing the rule because it might slow us down…
It’s frustrating.
The purpose of good writing style is to communicate more effectively.
Sometimes you’re trying to communicate education or class. Often that’s not the main goal.
Agreed. As someone who has built landing pages like that professionally you take inspiration from a wide range of sources.
Directly copying is tacky and immoral - it's also not effective. You should be thinking about how to position _your product_ not how someone else positioned their product.
That's awesome, thanks for playing!
I think we’ll stop predicting the future soon. By the end of this year or next, the year after at the very latest.
Hey, thanks for the kind words! There’s a new puzzle every day if you’re enjoying it
Awesome, looking forward to it!
Thanks! I’d love to check out your games if you feel like sharing!
It’s super cheap to run. I pay for analytics and thats basically it. Everything else is hobby level plans.
But it does take a decent chunk of time to make the puzzles. We have a baby at home so time is at a premium.
That’s awesome, thanks for sharing it!
That’s awesome, thanks for playing!
Did people become billionaires at those companies before or after they started being enshittified?
Hey, thanks for playing and sharing! I’m glad you enjoy it!
That’s one definition of fairness (market rate.)
There are many other definitions of fairness as well.
This comes back to the thread we’re discussing. What a fair wage means is a philosophical and moral question. Not just a math problem.
If someone inherits a business and earns higher wages than their workers is that fair? What did they do to earn that?
What if you think all of the available offers are unfair but you don’t have the means to start your own business?
Yeah he responded to a philosophical and moral argument with a math problem.
And an overly simplistic view of the math problem too. (Surely going from 1000 to 2000 customers is as easy as going from 10 to 20, right?)
This is super cool! Nice work!
I’m continuing to work on my daily word game Tiled Words!
I checked my analytics recently and over 100 people have 100+ day streaks which kind of blows my mind!
I released custom player puzzles which has been a lot of fun! I’ve gotten dozens of submissions that I’m working through. People are submitting really clever and interesting puzzles. It’s fun to get to solve puzzles I didn’t make myself! There’s more I want to do here (featured puzzles, categories, etc.)
https://tiledwords.com/player-puzzles/page/1
I think I’ve also tracked down an issue that was causing the game to crash on older iPhones. I’m having playtesters run through it now and hope to deploy tomorrow. (Switching some positioning rules from CSS transforms to SVG coordinates)
I recently made some puzzle brainstorming tools using the Datamuse API which have been very helpful for brainstorming words related to a theme.
I’m starting to debate some monetized features. So far everything is free but it would be nice if my wife and I could dedicate more time to this. If I could get a few thousand dollars a month in subscriptions my wife could quit her job and focus more on puzzle creation and improving the game. If you play and have ideas for features you pay for I’d love to hear them!
Really fun idea! Though I agree about the feedback on the physics: the ball doesn't travel as far as I'd like and bounces off the edge too often.
The game also often wanted to reorient me towards the flag which was annoying when I was trying to go another direction.
It also sometimes was tricky to drag the ball - It thought I was trying to pan the perspective.
All that said, this is fucking rad! I think with a few small tweaks you've got something really special. And it could easily be extended with windmills, power-ups, etc. I'm excited to play more and see it progress!