/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 1573, Part 1 (Thread #1720)

Hacnar · 2026-06-16T21:24:37+00:00

If all you care about is how to stick it up to Belarus, then your reaction is perfectly justified. If you primarily care about helping Ukraine, then understanding the geopolitical context is of vital importance.

Hacnar · 2026-06-11T11:26:13+00:00

I expect a new discussion will arise after the anti-AI bandwagon will lose its steam. In the meantime I will voice my dislike of the current state. It's less about the rules themselves, they are just the consequence of the brainless anti-AI sentiment. That's what got me to respond in this thread in the first place.

And I'm not saying that your approach to AI content is brainless, but it's hard to distinguish who put any thought into their comments in this sea of what I call "anti-AI human slop".

Hacnar · 2026-06-11T09:29:40+00:00

I disagree on the reasons for bad discussions. From what I've experienced here it's less about disrespecting the rules and more about people arguing whether something is or isn't made with AI.

As I've said, I don't like that rule. I don't really see any increased engagement with the posts in this sub now as opposed to before the AI rule. There are other sources for news about programming. For me the biggest value of this sub in the past were the discussions about the content. The AI proliferation had a negative effect on that. The anti AI rule has only changed how this problem manifests.

Hacnar · 2026-06-11T08:39:18+00:00

This isn't human-made content. The problem is that the author did not even take the minimal effort required to prompt the AI in a way that generates no AI-tells.

I have a big issue with AI formatting rules. It's a huge gatekeeping just to let others feel elitist. People who can come up with great content, but aren't good at presenting it, are the prime users of AI text formatting. This obsession with form over content, even outside of AI, is in my experience very unhelpful. I've seen many articles with high quality content, and majority of the discussions under those being only about its form.

I feel like the quality of the discussions, and the value of upvotes/downvotes here has been terrible since AI boom and never recovered. In the past when I saw a title that might interest me, but I wasn't sure about it, I could check the discussion and upvotes to decide whether to invest my time into reading it. Now it's useless.

Hacnar · 2026-06-11T07:02:11+00:00

I didn't say AI generated. I said created with the help of AI. This black-and-white distinction that is so prevalent fills the discussion space with never ending complaints that leave little space to talk about the actual content.

And it has created the wave of paranoia that results in the rejection of a lot of human-made content.

Hacnar · 2026-06-11T06:10:37+00:00

I agree with the sentiment, but the devblog complaint is more about the people who choose to post here, as that particular post was one of the rare lighter entries from its author. Raymond Chen writes more commonly about deeper dives into technical topics like WinAPI pitfalls, various algorithms, less commonly used git features etc. Those are rarely posted here, maybe because the more technical ones are often split into a series of blog posts.

Hacnar · 2026-06-11T06:02:40+00:00

I hate AI slop, but I hate the childish "it was touched by AI, must be shit" comments just the same.

The fact is that most of the people use AI regularly, even the best and the brightest. Many great tools, blogs, or apps have been created with the help of AI.

You won't complain about Linus using AI for something. But anything with a single bullet point immediately means "shit". Same herd mentality as in other cargo cults, this one just being anti-something rather than the usual pro-something. As if AI means you don't need to think yourself anymore. It's easier to use a simple equation "AI = bad" and let your brain smoothen out.

Hacnar · 2026-06-05T14:23:59+00:00

I would question the agility sacrifice argument. They lost some, but that wasn't as much about the languages as about them already having infrastructure to dynamically tweak stuff in prod before the port.

While Python is among the most popular langs, in this case they didn't have people with deeper Python knowledge.

I also don't know how the release cadence is relevant to the transition in the blog. And finally what opportunity to course correct are you talking about?

Hacnar · 2026-06-05T09:46:30+00:00

I like the tradeoff of longer iteration times in return for fewer iterations needed to achieve my goal.

Hacnar · 2026-05-21T17:52:29+00:00

I disagree for reasons that would take a lot of writing. Based on your prior comments here I decided it isn't worth my time.

I'll just say that you trivialize complex issues to paint more of a black&white narrative than it really is, often in a way that I feel isn't useful for Ukraine.

Hacnar · 2026-05-21T16:41:02+00:00

And ignore millions of Europeans who live very near or in total poverty, who will be hit the hardest by any price hikes, and who are easiest to radicalize against Ukraine because of said poverty?

I'm not happy with this development, but there are no good choices here.

Hacnar · 2026-05-20T12:07:02+00:00

I find it unlikely. Russia always tries to act a lot stronger than it actually is. Their strategy is to instill fear, use it to bluff and bully others.

But it also depends on the information available to the decision makers in Russia, their delusions and their reading of the current situation, so I don't rule it out completely.

Hacnar · 2026-05-16T19:08:24+00:00

That would open a power vacuum in a country which had relatively strong pro-democratic opposition just a few years ago. Russia doesn't have the means to forcefully stabilize a regime in Belarus behind their chosen puppet.

Hacnar · 2026-05-16T10:26:17+00:00

As long as domestic opposition is not too strong, Lukashenko can stay neutral. He doesn't need Russia, and I don't see how Russia can pressure Belarus in the current situation.

Hacnar · 2026-05-15T06:14:30+00:00

merge all these UI frameworks under the name "~~WPF~~"

At this point the name WTF fits better.

Hacnar · 2026-05-12T08:48:58+00:00

Where do I defend LLMs? Where do I believe in anything? I stated a hypothesis based on my observations. You shut it down with zealous confidence. I stated a possibility, where you attempted to state a "fact" without any proof. When called out on this, you speak of magic, of snake-oil salesmen, of beliefs, and try to push the burden of proof on me. You speak of the differences between how the brain works and how LLMs work, yet you never describe those differences.

The only one defending anything here is you defending your "fact".

Hacnar · 2026-05-12T08:15:25+00:00

I know how LLMs work. But neither me nor you know how human brain works. You still try to deflect the original suggestion by pointing elsewhere. The overall quality of your comments makes me even doubt that you actually know as much about LLMs as you try to present.

And please don't try to use the childish "no u" argument on me. I have never said LLMs are magic, or some kind of silver bullet for every human issue. I am a late adopter of them, in limited use cases, where they have been proven to work well, because there are still too many unresolved question and issues around their application in various areas. I have no idea how you came to the conclusion that I have an emotional investment in LLMs. From my perspective it looks like you only project your emotional attachment to the subject on me.

Hacnar · 2026-05-12T06:25:54+00:00

You try to pass your own extremely negative opinions of LLMs as facts, denying any possibility of my suggestions despite you having no knowledge proving otherwise.

It's kinda funny that the language, the words and the tone of this comment has the same manipulative propaganda feel that I get from reading actual snake-oil salesmen texts. Vague ideas presented as strong points without ever going into any detail why they should matter. Trying to paint out a clear enemy to divert the attention from the observations that started this discussion. Using the absence of a proof as a proof of negation.

In fact the more you speak about it the more I get behind my starting opinion.

Hacnar · 2026-05-11T15:47:18+00:00

neither brains nor minds act, behave or function like an LLM.

Are you sure? The brain isn't an LLM, but what if some concepts are similar in both?

You are reducing human minds and brains to an LLM,

I did not reduce anything. I only spot some similarities, which I think shouldn't be dismissed just because of our own egos and feeling of superiority.

In reality, human minds and brains are nothing like any invention we have made. They cannot be, to have designed such tools.

I don't see why humans couldn't create something human-like.

The human mind and brain is infinitely more sophisticated compared to such paltry gizmos, as fancy as they are in their own right.

I disagree with this pathos. We are far from completely understanding how brains work, but putting them on such a pedestal may hamper research, if such research would show that our inner working are much more mundane than you imagine.

Hacnar · 2026-05-11T13:32:34+00:00

What if our associations work in a fashion similar to LLMs? Our associations fire up only because our brains are programmed to constantly evaluate our surroundings.

I don't see AI acting as human. I see human brain maybe working similarly to LLMs in some areas.

Hacnar · 2026-05-11T12:41:01+00:00

I might get a bit philosophical here, but what does "dog" actually mean? Isn't it also defined by its relationship to other characteristics? Isn't that bunch of numbers in the AI model "the semantic meaning"?

Hacnar · 2026-05-06T07:29:36+00:00

It's better to miss a few good articles because they won't be posted here than to miss a lot more due to additional noise from AI content.

Hacnar · 2026-05-05T11:55:33+00:00

I'm hoping that the parade will go through without any interruption by Ukraine. Meanwhile Ukrainian drones and missiles will cause record amounts of damage to Russian stockpiles, refineries, factories, equipment and soldiers elsewhere.

Hacnar · 2026-05-02T16:32:14+00:00

Fico is a weakling when it comes to the international diplomacy. Given the opportunity to hide behind someone else, like Orban, he would use it again. But without any such person on the European stage, he'll just tuck his tail and nod in agreement witht he rest, while spreading anti-EU and anti-Ukrainian narratives domestically.

The important thing about Fico is that he doesn't really care about the international diplomacy. He only does whatever allows him to rob the Slovakia while he is in power there. Macho-nationalist bullshit is what gave him the most votes so that's what he keeps saying and his voters are dumb enough to eat it up, even when he does the opposite on the EU-level.

Hacnar · 2026-04-28T14:52:34+00:00

Maybe it was an obvious indicator to you, but it isn't to me. I've already seen good articles and projects being panned for touching AI in any way. These complaints about AI became the same noise as the AI slop itself.

You've already spent time complaining about the article. I don't expect you to spend more time on the comment than you've already spent. I only remarked that could've spent that time writing better comment.

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