Hacker News with Generative AI: Opinion

Stargate and the AI Industrial Revolution (davefriedman.substack.com)
The conventional narrative about artificial intelligence is deeply flawed. For years, we’ve been told that AI is "just software"—a clever layer atop the internet stack, maybe a productivity multiplier for office workers, maybe a toy for app developers. But that view is dying in the red clay of Abilene, Texas.

Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Opinion

21 points by mhb 16 hours ago | 17 comments

The Era of the Business Idiot (wheresyoured.at)
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize.

Business, Opinion, Essays

112 points by dvt 2 days ago | 126 comments

The Future of Customer Support Is Lies, I Guess (aphyr.com)
The Future of Customer Support is Lies, I Guess

Customer Support, Technology, Future, Opinion

26 points by mplanchard 2 days ago | 4 comments

Reading "Business" Books Is a Waste of Time (antemedian.substack.com)
Most popular business books are written for emotional appeal, not intellectual rigor.

Business, Books, Opinion

38 points by romanhotsiy 4 days ago | 25 comments

Why Are There So Many 'Alternative Devices' All of a Sudden? (theatlantic.com)
On a recent commute to work, I texted my distant family about our fantasy baseball league, which was nice because I felt connected to them for a second. Then I switched apps and became enraged by a stupid opinion I saw on X, which I shouldn’t be using anymore due to its advanced toxicity and mind-numbing inanity.

Social Media, Technology, Opinion, Online Culture

55 points by fortran77 6 days ago | 62 comments

Slopaganda (dbushell.com)
The internet is ruined. Ruined I tell you!

Internet Culture, Satire, Opinion

9 points by ambigious7777 7 days ago | 0 comments

The Tongue Is a Fire (lrb.co.uk)
It’s puzzling, unsettling even, to see ‘free speech’ rearing its head in public debate again, rousing passions which seemed long defunct.

Free Speech, Politics, Language, Opinion

25 points by Petiver 8 days ago | 44 comments

LLMs are making me dumber (vvvincent.me)
Here are some ways I use LLMs that I think are making me dumber:

Artificial Intelligence, Productivity, Opinion

69 points by vincentcheng 9 days ago | 80 comments

The Synthesizer - a blessing or a curse? (1983) [video] (youtube.com)

Music, Technology, History, Opinion

3 points by msephton 15 days ago | 1 comments

Are We Living in a Time of Cultural Collapse? (honest-broker.com)
Many articles have been written about me over the years. But I’ve never been hit with an opening sentence like the one published on Monday by The Atlantic.

Culture, Society, Media, Opinion

7 points by pseudolus 16 days ago | 0 comments

Email and password authentication should be a last resort (rant) (smudge.ai)
Email + password authentication should be a last resort (rant)

Security, Authentication, Software Development, Opinion

13 points by aaossa 17 days ago | 6 comments

MCP Is Not Good, Yet (cra.mr)
Something’s been bothering me lately surrounding the conversation of MCP servers. Everyone, seemingly, is talking about how MCPs are great, and we should be building MCPs, and adopting MCPs, and rethinking UIs with MCPs, becoming best friends with MCPs, getting married to MCPs, you know, the works.

Software, User Interfaces, Opinion, Criticism

17 points by coloneltcb 17 days ago | 1 comments

Dreariness Index (2015) (blogspot.com)
How do you define dreary weather? Is it the amount of rain/snow? How about the frequency of precipitation? Many people feel that cloudy weather is dreary. Of course dreary does not have a scientific definition so some arbitrary measure must be developed.

Weather, Climate, Data Science, Opinion

32 points by skupig 18 days ago | 30 comments

Two publishers and three authors fail to understand what "vibe coding" means (simonwillison.net)
Vibe coding does not mean “using AI tools to help write code”. It means “generating code with AI without caring about the code that is produced”. See Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding for my previous writing on this subject. This is a hill I am willing to die on. I fear it will be the death of me.

Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Software Development, Opinion

84 points by Tomte 22 days ago | 115 comments

Ask HN: Is there a list of projects that will *not* adopt AI? (ycombinator.com)
With every project and it's grandma integrating AI, there's definitely going to be a niche that sprouts up of projects that say we will never adopt or use AI. Are there any lists of such projects?

Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Programming, Opinion, Community

18 points by 90s_dev 24 days ago | 5 comments

Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction (theregister.com)
Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction

Operating Systems, Software, Windows, Technology, Opinion

28 points by rntn 25 days ago | 10 comments

Against the Tyranny of Opinionated Ignorance (quillette.com)
The recent disagreement on The Joe Rogan Experience—between journalist Douglas Murray on one hand and Rogan and comedian Dave Smith on the other—has exposed a problem with the populist media ecosystem: the casual normalisation and celebration of opinions untethered to knowledge.

Media Criticism, Populism, Opinion, Knowledge

10 points by litoE 26 days ago | 4 comments

We've Been Conned: The Truth about Big LLM (dolthub.com)
We're being conned by Big LLM, and I'm here to call them out.

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Opinion

6 points by midzer 27 days ago | 2 comments

I won't be vibe coding anymore: a noob's perspective (varunraghu.com)
i’m breaking up with vibe coding. here’s why.

Programming, Opinion, Software Development

136 points by Varun08 30 days ago | 150 comments

Bad trip coming for AI hype as humanity tools up to fight back (theregister.com)
Opinion 6:56 PM. April 11, 2025. Write it down. That's the precise moment the tech-bro-niverse imploded due to the gravitational force of irony at its core. That was the moment Jack Dorsey posted "Delete all IP law" on X. A little later, Elon Musk added his approval with "I agree."

Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Social Commentary, Opinion

13 points by rntn 31 days ago | 0 comments

Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature (herecomesthemoon.net)
Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature.

Programming Languages, Software Development, Opinion

372 points by Mond_ 32 days ago | 348 comments

"Upgrade" has become the most frightening word in the English language (2016) (nytimes.com)
I was disappointed when the website of Oxford Dictionaries called off its search for the worst word in the English language before I got a chance to have my say.

Language, Culture, Opinion, Technology

32 points by lvnfg 33 days ago | 25 comments

Slouching towards San Francisco (rachdele.substack.com)
San Francisco looms large over the American imagination. Even I succumb to its mysterious promise from time to time, but seldom for very long.

San Francisco, Culture, Opinion

96 points by greenie_beans 33 days ago | 102 comments

Librarians are dangerous (bradmontague.substack.com)
Dear Enthusiasts,

Libraries, Opinion, Social Commentary

698 points by mooreds 34 days ago | 645 comments

I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype (unixdigest.com)
I truly and passionately hate hype. From the fakeness of it to the sheer stupidity it represents, but perhaps most of all, because of the devastating consequence it often results in.

Artificial Intelligence, Opinion, Criticism

182 points by smartmic 35 days ago | 218 comments

Resist, eggheads Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be (arstechnica.com)
The wholesale American cannibalism of one of its own crucial appendages—the world-famous university system—has begun in earnest.

Education, Higher Education, Universities, Opinion, United States

25 points by pjmlp 35 days ago | 3 comments

I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636 (scottaaronson.blog)
Every week, I tell myself I won’t do yet another post about the asteroid striking American academia, and then every week events force my hand otherwise.

Education, Academia, Crisis, Opinion

107 points by Tomte 38 days ago | 103 comments

How I Don't Use LLMs (gleech.org)
I enjoy shocking people by telling them I don’t use LLMs.