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Re:Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano ... by vunderba on Friday January 09, 2026 @02:57PM (#46558461)
Yeesh. Personal attacks aside - there's plenty on my blog that I've written that has nothing to do with AI.

The Physiological Constraints of Free Will https://mordenstar.com/essays/free-will

The Lost Art of Windows 95 Pranking https://mordenstar.com/blog/win9x-hacks

The Q-Basic Continuum https://mordenstar.com/blog/q-basic

The Infinite Wish Generator https://mordenstar.com/blog/on-genies

Bible Stories https://mordenstar.com/blog/bible-stories

They're all things I conceived of, thought of, and created. I do use GenAI for some of the related pictures - but its in the augmentation of my original ideas.

With all due respect, I'll stack up anything I've ever created against anything of yours at any time.

Re:Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano ... by dvt on Friday January 09, 2026 @03:35PM (#46558982)
Hacker News has become weirdly anti-hacker in the last 5 or so years, so please keep building stuff and keep posting it. This is literally what HN is supposed to be. The "AI slop" tirade is just bottom of the barrel bandwaggoning for upvotes because it's popular to hate AI today
Re:Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano ... by minimaxir on Friday January 09, 2026 @04:00PM (#46559260)
One of the counterintuitive aspects of the LLM boom is that agentic coding allows for more weird/unique projects that spark joy with less risk due to the increased efficiency. Nowadays, anything that's weird is considered AI slop and that's not even limited to software development.

No, "LLMs can only output what's in their training data" hasn't been true for awhile.

Re:Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano ... by vunderba on Friday January 09, 2026 @04:24PM (#46559549)
Thanks for the support. Honestly, I probably shouldn’t get so defensive either, it’s a bad habit and a pretty poor "evolutionary holdover" in the internet age of anonymity and social media.

I thought one way to help mitigate my emotional responses was to desensitize myself, but who really wants to expose themselves to the requisite sufficient threshold of personal attacks? That’s not exactly a fun callus to develop.

Re:Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano ... by Fraterkes on Friday January 09, 2026 @03:59PM (#46559248)
Pay me no heed, I'm sure you'd find many of the things I've made insubstantive.
Re:Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano ... by snackdex on Friday January 09, 2026 @04:35PM (#46559702)
> With all due respect, I'll stack up anything I've ever created against anything of yours at any time.

I love this response. for what its worth there is some thought here on this app.

Re:Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano ... by dang on Friday January 09, 2026 @04:47PM (#46559841)
> With all due respect, I'll stack up anything I've ever created against anything of yours at any time

I realize the GP comment was a provocation, but please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html