Ask HN: Are you using AI for company messaging?
I've noticed that a lot of startup websites have messaging that has clearly been written by AI. Is the time investment to get to excellent messaging simply not worth it?
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Re:How to ask for help from people who don't know you
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @06:14PM (#48768053)
Adding to the canon, something I started awhile back, maybe worth revisiting: https://pizarrowrites.substack.com/p/the-book-of-help
Re:AMA: I'm Eric Ries (The Lean Startup) & Author of New Bestseller In...
on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @11:16AM (#48477628)
Are the lessons you have distilled applicable to other institutions in society which decline due to corruption? How is corruption different from your concept of financial gravity?
Re:Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry
on Thursday June 04, 2026 @10:34AM (#48399291)
What I think is surprising about this article is that I would expect the top HN comment to call out that it's an advertorial for the Turkish hair replacement industry. It's like something you'd usually find on the Yahoo News page - the only reason it seems to have survived on the front page of HN is because it's in Wired and it's got the word hack used inappropriately in both title and body. If I can't rely on HN to sniff out the paid BS, what do I have to do, figure it out myself?
Re:Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave
on Thursday May 28, 2026 @11:26AM (#48310348)
I just had more fun here than doing anything online for years. Thank you.
Re:AI is making me dumb
on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:15PM (#48140652)
I believe your words should be your own. I refuse to let ai strip my words of their idiosyncrasy. I refuse to put my words into a machine that robs them of their humanity. They are mine, they are me. Working with a human editor is an act of love and creation. Working with an AI editor is an act of mediocrity and sacrificed originality.
Re:OpenAI eyes staggered rollout of new model over cybersecurity risk
on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:20PM (#47707435)
The cynic in me questions whether this is a PR response to Glasswing.
Re:Show HN: I build a Fantasy NHL app in 3 days with Claude AI
on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @11:51PM (#43841091)
I did something in a similar space and I'm a complete noncoder: www.sgpedge.com
Probably about ten hours, all in.
Re:Show HN: I Made a Single Game Parlay Analyzer
on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @08:45PM (#43627874)
I guess really the only reason it's interesting is that I don't know how to code and did this with a coding assistant. Would love feedback on it!
Show HN: I Made a Single Game Parlay Analyzer
Re:Can stress be harnessed to bond teams deliberately?
on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @04:42PM (#40446245)
Funny, I use this myself, particularly in HN. I think there is a corollary though, which goes something like "Headlines which ask a question are more likely to attract attention when the subject is of interest to the reader." or "Headlines which leave an unclosed loop cause an impulse to find the solution."
Re:Can stress be harnessed to bond teams deliberately?
on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @04:40PM (#40446226)
Yeah, I think what I have in mind is more along the lines of creating a defined goal that people need to achieve in a limited amount of time. Think carrying a sandbag for 20 miles by handing it off between the participants. E.g. pushing themselves physically or mentally, with some time constraints, and helping each other in the process.
Re:Can stress be harnessed to bond teams deliberately?
on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @01:41PM (#40443776)
Posting this question in a slightly different way than I did before. My theory is that it is possible to deliberately structure an experience within 48 hours or so to create a lifelong bond on a team of 4-5 people. I'm trying to figure out what the elements of that experience would be so I'm using a handy AI tool to help me do the research.
Can stress be harnessed to bond teams deliberately?
Re:What leads to highly bonded teams?
on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @01:39PM (#40443757)
Ha - just saw this - had to look up what araldite is. Metaphorically speaking I wonder whether stress is the araldite of team bonding?
What leads to highly bonded teams?
Re:What leads to highly bonded teams?
on Saturday May 18, 2024 @03:19PM (#40401317)
I'm doing some research for a book on team bonding. If you have ever been on a highly bonded team and have ideas about what circumstances led to the bonding I'd love your thoughts.
Re:Inside The Funding Frenzy at Anthropic, One of A.I.'S Hottest Startups
on Thursday February 22, 2024 @01:12AM (#39463770)
We've seen this before. Lots of investments in the '99 runup had ad buys associated with them which did the same kind of double counting. The example would be Yahoo investing in some startup at an inflated valuation, paying for some or all of the investment with ad inventory priced arbitrarily and which was, for Yahoo, free to produce. Lots of things led to the 2001 crash, but valuation distorting shenanigans like that didn't help. To the extent it feeds through to Microsoft, Google, and Amazon valuations the AI dynamic could follow a similar pattern.
Questions to Closeness – Has this been replicated?
Re:Questions to Closeness – Has this been replicated?
on Friday January 26, 2024 @11:55AM (#39144812)
This study by Arthur Aaron on closeness drove all kinds of media attention and still gets cited all over the place. Does anyone know if it has ever been replicated?
Ask HN: What would you do to turn around San Francisco?
I'm curious what the community thinks are best ways to fix the cities problems. For the sake of the exercise let's assume no new revenue.
Re:U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter, better th...
on Thursday October 26, 2023 @12:45PM (#38028213)
Consumer debt to disposable income is low vs. average. It may trend up but my take is that bigger thing at play here is historically low unemployment. Good news, in other words.
Re:Ask HN: My company doesn't let me use Copilot or Tab9 – any non-hos...
on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @10:58PM (#36236623)
I should have been more specific - fine tune on our own code.
Ask HN: My company doesn't let me use Copilot or Tab9 – any non-hosted options?
As is the case with many companies, our team has decided that the risk of using hosted AI solutions is too high. Are there any other solutions out there that would allow us to train on our own codebase without exposing it?
Ask HN: Slack vs. Facebook Workplace
Our 10 person startup is half in and half out of Slack, in a worst of both worlds mix with Google Docs and Notion. Has anyone used Facebook Workplace? Thoughts on pros and cons?
Re:Ask HN: `Contact Us` Pricing
on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @05:20PM (#33427652)
G2.com has a lot of pricing for comparison. Not sure if it necessarily shares information not available on the vendor sites, though.
Re:Coaching for “Normals”?
on Friday October 14, 2022 @09:01AM (#33202961)
Surprised no one has mentioned this: https://www.betterup.com/for-individuals
I haven't used it, myself, but I think they're the leading startup in the space.
Ask HN: A Simple Phone
I have realized that my information addiction can only be cured by completely removing the ability to consume it on my phone. I would like a device that has three (and only three) applications on it:1) A phone 2) Text messages 3) Google MapsI don't care about form factor, so I'm thinking a basic Android phone with everything but these three things stripped out.Is this out there? If not - how...
Re:I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to
on Thursday July 07, 2022 @09:09AM (#32013620)
Does anyone know if the 2019 law opens hospitals to civil action or whether individuals can be awarded some portion of the fines for reporting as in whistleblower cases? If so, that could be a decent alignment of incentives to get the hospitals to comply.
Re:Ask HN: Important nonobvious startup/business lessons you've learned?
on Thursday May 12, 2022 @11:27AM (#31355572)
Also interested in this!