Hacker News with Generative AI: Criticism

Rust's Downfall: From Rising Star to Rejected by Major Projects (medium.com)
Rust, once celebrated as a game-changer in systems programming, has found itself facing a wave of criticism following a string of high-profile setbacks.
Rust, Programming Languages, Software Development, Criticism
5 points by ThatGuyRaion 6 hours ago | 1 comments
The Trouble with Elon (samharris.substack.com)
I didn’t set out to become an enemy of the world’s richest man, but I seem to have managed it all the same.
Elon Musk, Sam Harris, Criticism, Public Figures, Social Media
78 points by pulisse 2 days ago | 66 comments
How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates (astralcodexten.com)
Richard Lynn was a scientist who infamously tried to estimate the average IQ of every country. Typical of his results is this paper, which ranged from 60 (Malawi) to 108 (Singapore).
Intelligence, Psychology, Sociology, Research, Criticism
9 points by tontonius 2 days ago | 2 comments
WordPress Is in Trouble (anderegg.ca)
Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when things were blissfully quiet.
WordPress, Web Development, Technology, Criticism
623 points by ulrischa 4 days ago | 431 comments
Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014) (akkartik.name)
Literate programming advocates this: Order your code for others to read, not for the compiler. Beautifully typeset your code so one can curl up in bed to read it like a novel. Keep documentation in sync with code. What's not to like about this vision? I have two beefs with it: the ends are insufficiently ambitious by focusing on a passive representation; and the means were insufficiently polished, by over-emphasizing typesetting at the cost of prose quality.
Programming, Software Development, Criticism, Literature
130 points by surprisetalk 5 days ago | 132 comments
The Cravenness of Mark Zuckerberg (ft.com)
The cravenness of Mark Zuckerberg
Social Media, Mark Zuckerberg, Criticism
7 points by this_weekend 5 days ago | 4 comments
Apple squandered the Holy Grail (xeiaso.net)
Why Apple Intelligence failed even though everything it's built upon is nearly perfect
Apple, Business, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Criticism
423 points by caust1c 12 days ago | 556 comments
Why the U.S. Patent System is SCAM [video] (youtube.com)
Criticism, Law, Video
4 points by fezz 13 days ago | 2 comments
Mufasa's 'Bye Bye' shows how Disney villain songs went wrong (polygon.com)
Every day, Disney strays further from the wishing star’s light. And there’s one big reason for that: a staggering lack of animated villains. The studio has only produced a handful of movies with actual villains over the last 15 years, and as Disney fans frequently note, that means we’ve lost a glorious entertainment staple in the Disney villain song.
Disney, Animation, Music, Criticism
31 points by hyperific 18 days ago | 30 comments
The Nintendo Switch EShop Is a Bigger Slop Factory Than (kotaku.com)
If you’ve recently loaded up the Nintendo Switch’s eShop to buy something or search for a specific game, you’ve likely noticed that the digital store is filled with a lot of garbage that was likely made quickly and is only there to cash in on a trend or holiday.
Gaming, Nintendo, E-commerce, Criticism
5 points by PaulHoule 20 days ago | 0 comments
Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s (chuckwnelson.com)
You know when you go on a picnic, sometimes there's a fly that decides to join you.
Google, OpenAI, Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Criticism
470 points by chuckwnelson 20 days ago | 485 comments
LLMs are everything that it wrong in computing (crys.site)
For decades corporations have been doing anything in their power to make computers worse.
Computing, Criticism
62 points by lr0 21 days ago | 57 comments
Something is wrong on the Internet (lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)
I just read two long diatribes on the Internet about what’s wrong with . . . well pretty much everything.
Internet Culture, Criticism, Opinion
74 points by toss1 26 days ago | 101 comments
Spotify's Plot Against Musicians (harpers.org)
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Music Industry, Spotify, Criticism
13 points by gennarro 28 days ago | 8 comments
The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed (honest-broker.com)
In early 2022, I started noticing something strange in Spotify’s jazz playlists.
Music Streaming, Spotify, Criticism
204 points by LordAtlas 28 days ago | 261 comments
Web3 Is Going Just Great (web3isgoinggreat.com)
Web3, Satire, Criticism
4 points by imichael 28 days ago | 0 comments
Critics, not fans, perpetuate the failed second album myth, study shows (phys.org)
After a debut hit, many bands often find their follow-up album panned: further evidence of the curse of the "sophomore slump," critics say.
Music, Criticism, Research, Culture
66 points by PaulHoule 30 days ago | 79 comments
Larian boss Swen Vincke calls out pretty much the entire videogame industry (pcgamer.com)
Gaming Industry, Criticism, Larian Studios
22 points by phoronixrly 31 days ago | 0 comments
Never Forgive Them (wheresyoured.at)
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise.
Technology, Personal Essays, Criticism
19 points by DanAtC 32 days ago | 3 comments
The age of average (2023) (alexmurrell.co.uk)
This article argues that from film to fashion and architecture to advertising, creative fields have become dominated and defined by convention and cliché. Distinctiveness has died. In every field we look at, we find that everything looks the same.
Art, Culture, Trends, Design, Criticism
250 points by synergy20 36 days ago | 171 comments
Ghost Engineers and Proof or a Lack Thereof (nishtahir.com)
I've been watching the media landscape evolve in real time and I feel compelled to share my opinion. I'm not a researcher or journalist, but I have been in Engineering for a long time. I don't intend for this to be an attack on anyone (hopefully it doesn't come across that way) but I think there is some fair criticism to be levied that I will do my best to break down[1].
Engineering, Media, Criticism
20 points by CarefreeCrayon 39 days ago | 5 comments
iOS 18 is the worst software Apple has ever released (macrumors.com)
iOS, Apple, Software, Operating Systems, Criticism
64 points by likeabatterycar 47 days ago | 51 comments
Yotta Bank and the Problem with Fintech (Patrick Boyle) [video] (youtube.com)
Fintech, Banking, Video, Criticism
62 points by mxschumacher 48 days ago | 61 comments
Henry James and H.G. Wells (1958) (bopsecrets.org)
Everybody knows the famous remark by Wells: “It [any novel by James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently placed, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string. . . .”
Literature, Criticism, History
63 points by lermontov 53 days ago | 35 comments
Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? [YouTube] [video] (youtube.com)
Technology, User Experience, Criticism, YouTube
17 points by mempko 53 days ago | 15 comments
Twitter is the worst global social network except for all the others (cfenollosa.com)
One point I will concede to the critics: Twitter is the worst global social network—except for all the others.
Social Media, Twitter, Technology, Criticism
38 points by carlesfe 62 days ago | 46 comments
Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Feed You More AI Slop (bloomberg.com)
Meta’s CEO sees promise in flooding people’s social feeds with machine-made content. No thanks.
Meta, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence, Criticism
30 points by taylorbuley 64 days ago | 19 comments
Misguided Apple Intelligence ads (tidbits.com)
Apple apparently hasn’t learned much from the criticism it took earlier this year for an ad showing creative works unceremoniously crushed in an industrial press (see “Apple Apologizes for Tone-Deaf “Crush!” iPad Pro Ad,” 10 May 2024). A pair of new ads for Apple Intelligence portray the Writing Tools and Memories movies as tools for those unwilling to put in any effort.
Advertising, Apple, Criticism, Artificial Intelligence
132 points by mrzool 67 days ago | 107 comments
Is There a Crisis of Seriousness? (honest-broker.com)
Back in 1996, critic Susan Sontag warned that seriousness was disappearing from society.
Culture, Criticism, Society
6 points by achairapart 72 days ago | 2 comments
Sabine Hossenfelder – The crisis in physics is real: Science is failing [video] (youtube.com)
Physics, Science, Video, Criticism
5 points by skydowx 74 days ago | 0 comments