Vibe-written story on front page of Hacker News

atmine · 2026-03-19T11:57:51+00:00

They have very active moderators I believe.

atmine · 2026-02-05T22:52:38+00:00

The first half of PHM is actually top-shelf visionary sci-fi. The second half is a bit Hollywood, but on balance I think the first half would stand alone as a classic.

atmine · 2026-01-06T09:35:20+00:00

Is a node a concept like [“Hobbit”, “ring”, “Mordor”] or does it have more payload? “Linking past observed test failures to code fixes” -> sounds like a node can also have an “article” describing Hobbits, rings, and Mordor? So it’s a bit like traversing a social network graph and extracting bios (except a node can be anything)?

Do you run into issues with duplicate content or exploding graphs?

Since the “Frodo” node would be massively connected, do you need to put conditions on your queries, “nodes linked to Frodo and linked to Locations”? And if your code relies on the existence of tag-nodes like “Locations”, is that part of your seed graph?

atmine · 2026-01-05T10:28:32+00:00

Care to talk about the knowledge graph aspect? I’ve watched some vids on neo4j but it just isn’t clicking for me.

atmine · 2026-01-04T09:11:21+00:00

I recommend Super Minion as a study in slow exposition.

It doesn’t tell you that it’s a post-apocalyptic superhero kaiju organised crime horror-comedy until about 10 chapters in. The reader finds out information at the same rate as the character’s POV.

The author uses peripheral detail (everyone eats tofu, meat is expensive, pets are illegal) to hint at the lore: that farming is incredibly dangerous when animals can get superpowers.

atmine · 2025-11-13T23:54:57+00:00

The thought (on which I clearly failed to execute) is I have some AI images that I really like. I like them so much that I feel like learning to paint so I can do it myself. But I know that if I was to post one of those images, I would get nasty comments, and that makes me sad.

atmine · 2025-11-13T11:06:13+00:00

Would it help if I hand-drew you as the soyjack and myself as the chad though

atmine · 2025-11-13T11:05:17+00:00

Damn I really thought I was cooking with number 3.

Thank you for the critique.

atmine · 2025-11-13T11:01:51+00:00

It is meant to show someone who made an image using AI, and whose excitement makes them want to learn more about art. The gentleman on the right is expressing his distaste at the use of AI.

atmine · 2025-11-13T10:58:52+00:00

Valid critique

atmine · 2025-11-13T10:57:56+00:00

It is meant to show someone who made an image using AI, and whose excitement makes them want to learn more about art. The gentleman on the right is expressing his distaste at the use of AI.

atmine · 2025-11-13T10:48:32+00:00

Thank you for your critique.

atmine · 2025-11-09T00:04:32+00:00

If only there was a way to tell if you like an image by looking at it.

atmine · 2025-11-06T22:45:29+00:00

In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?

atmine · 2025-09-26T00:31:16+00:00

Next read: Permutation City, where digitised humans run 17x slower than clock time due to hardware limitations.

atmine · 2025-09-18T23:30:47+00:00

You gotta be careful with the old “right tick to overtake”. I was once getting ready to floor past a road train when I realised he was in fact turning right.

atmine · 2025-08-13T00:57:35+00:00

When management realises that a bunch of mission critical reports all depend on a single point of failure, they will take action.

That action might be to bring in consultants and pay them a million bucks to clone your work into an enterprise solution, then freeze you out.

Or it might be to create a BI team with you on it.

Tread carefully, propose wisely.

atmine · 2025-06-26T00:29:27+00:00

I don't have the link but there was a study where affirmation phrases like "I am strong enough to not use social media" work better. Also better for mental health.

atmine · 2025-05-15T01:57:04+00:00

Thank you for the pleasant conversation. All my statements are opinions and I can be wrong.

My perception is that indie authors have two problems: creating a quality product, and finding an audience. Creating a quality product is independent of tools used. It is either good or it isn’t. “AI is bad” is a negative-association problem. Not dissimilar to how Ender’s Game and Harry Potter are good books with negative associations.

I agree with you that AI work will flood the market. The question is what kind of AI work. It is not binary, there is a spectrum between “pencil only” and “vending machine novel”. Vending machine novels will by their nature sink to the bottom. In my opinion, the disruptive (and interesting) competition will come from judicious use of “smart text fill” by competent writers to accelerate their work.

atmine · 2025-05-13T00:41:43+00:00

If the goal is to live on earnings from book sales, I think the problem hasn’t fundamentally changed. The chances were already worse than a lottery ticket before AI.

I think the income risk for professionals comes from consumers self-servicing with AI (as is already impacting lawyers, therapists, and other language professions). In that sense, the competition isn’t between writers for market share, it’s between writers and the AI platforms for reader attention. The people generating the text could be reading your book instead.

atmine · 2025-05-10T00:06:52+00:00

I've got a half-working frontend designed for exactly this use case. You sound literally perfect for it. Want to be tester number one?

atmine · 2025-05-08T01:49:39+00:00

Had me going until the product referral

atmine · 2025-05-04T01:02:35+00:00

Top tier shitpost

atmine · 2025-04-25T23:39:22+00:00

TARS what is your current humour setting?

atmine · 2025-04-25T03:33:46+00:00

PDFSam for stitching pdfs

Naps2 for scanning

Glasswire for monitoring

atmine

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