Loose them on what?

I first encountered them in various stackoverflow answers, this is the next step. IIRC they did promote themselves but it was subtle and the answers were good.

HN comment quality took a nosedive recently, You can predict the comments just based on the story, almost all of them cynical and snarky remarks. It used to be a place to come and learn from technical experts.

We live in an era where companies are increasingly hostile towards their users and society at large. Where regulation has been stripped or ignored to maximize the profits of a handful of monopolies, where companies don‘t even have to pretend to care about their customers anymore, nor the usability of their product. Seemingly companies don‘t even bother to test their products anymore before selling it to their customers. And companies that engage in the most consumer hostile behavior are the ones who are most rewarded for that behavior.

I think this cynicism is more then warranted. If anything HN is not cynical enough to meet the times we are in.

I don't have evidence for this, but I suspect a lot of it is Reddit refugees.

The AI boosters have driven away all experts. They are either financially invested or mindless power users on the level of the proverbial MacOS fanboys.

Experts related to real programming topics are gone or silent. AI experts have never even been here in the first place. It is all about Electron apps, prompts, agents and other bullshit.

This started before AI. I'd pin it on the crypto gold rush attracting knuckle-dragging brogrammers into the industry.

HR is charmed by them despite their lack of discipline.

Yes there are incentives to buy EVs but they are still much more expensive than ICE vehicles (I'm in the market for a new car so that is an observation from my experience)

EVs are still more expensive? You should thank EU bureaucrats for setting penalty tariffs on Chinese EVs.

It's going to be just like social media. A flood of content from the talentless masses exposing us to their lazy and shallow ideas they just cannot keep to themselves. Once in a while a diamond in the rough will be found, but at what cost?

I recently had to replace my 5 year old LG OLED with a new one. The UX has been downgraded to an abysmal level. It's just unfathomable how such simple UI widgets take multiple seconds to load and how can QA say "ok, that's good enough". And don't get me started about the shoehorned "AI". A feature that, if you forget to turn it off will randomly interrupt whatever you're watching to talk to you in an almost unintelligible metallic voice. The build quality of the remote control also took a nose dive. Image quality is great but the same as my old TV, no advancements there.

How long has it been since we last saw a "LLMs can't really think/be useful/be better than a human expert" discussion on HN? There used to be so many!

People are insecure about their leetcode black belts and react slop not giving them cushy jobs anymore so keep missing the forest for the tree.

probably like a minute or two? im pretty sure someone unironically said stochastic parrot on the HN post with the tweet announcing the counterexample, and ive read several comments with similar sentiments today (including in this thread)

At the other end when you need to convert your crypto to real currency.

What do you expect them to do instead?

Say that thousands of civilians were brutally massacred by the "People's Liberation Army" on behalf of the Chinese communist party, the single political party allowed in China, and also the single entity controlling everything of importance in the country, including financing the AI efforts.

Oh, I see what you did there.

I actually laughed out loud

What are some terms that would have benefitted from elucidations? Also can you give an example were the tone felt arrogant?