eplatzek
Re:I Miss Terry Pratchett
on Saturday May 23, 2026 @01:52PM (#48249654)
I fully disagree. This felt human.
Re:I Miss Terry Pratchett
on Saturday May 23, 2026 @01:52PM (#48249646)
I recently ready through the Tiffany Aching set and adored her.
Re:I Miss Terry Pratchett
on Saturday May 23, 2026 @01:50PM (#48249622)
This felt like a human wrote it to me. It was weird and private. It didn't feel like slop. It felt too niche to be slop.
Is there slop by the author or the site?
Re:The Death of the Brick and Mortar Toy Store
on Friday May 22, 2026 @03:21AM (#48232996)
What about the situation where a bunch of flower sellers end up on the same area of town?
Hotelling's Law (also known as the Principle of Minimum Differentiation or Hotelling’s Spatial Competition).
Re:The Death of Partying in the USA
on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @05:58PM (#44515127)
With COVID partying meant that someone could kill you with an illness. That's a pretty hard lesson to unlearn. They carries a lot of momentum.
Like with World Wars there's been a generational impact that changed how people relate to one another. The tribal momentum, of one monkey teaching the next, gets lost.
Re:Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming
on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @08:52PM (#44505348)
I've had the opposite experience. Now I can give an LLM my requirements, ask it to create a plan, I'll review the plan, then I have it implement the plan. I have it add test cases before doing a refractor to make sure everything is still covered. I get to be an architect, a product owner. In this way I get to create and not have to worry about implementation too much. I'll just make tweaks with a review. It's been a joy to describe my end state and watch it get built.
Re:Is There a Half-Life for the Success Rates of AI Agents?
on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @02:29PM (#44312211)
Honestly that feels a like a human.
After hitting my head against a wall with a problem I need to stop.
I need to stop and clear my context. Go a walk. Talk with friends. Switch to another task.
Re:Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing ...
on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @10:46PM (#43180376)
How so?
Re:I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018)
on Saturday November 09, 2024 @11:20PM (#42098534)
would you be willing to share how much more you made and what you had been making?
Re:Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech
on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:24PM (#40963641)
I did some spot checks and the cadence and intonation of their speech feels so natural. The sentences flow. It's the best I've ever heard. Thanks for doing this.