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Someone shared a technical article (archive) on Hacker News (archive) about how city builder games draw roads.
Most of the comments are about how evil roads are. The site is not a tech forum anymore; it's just reddit 2.

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HN routinely has a problem with people and companies making accounts up to prop their shitty flavour of the month cancer riding on worthless vapourware. This time it's a company, Aden, from the Winter 2020 startups batch.
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The founder posted a Show HN (direct link, archive), and the near entirety of their submission's replies are made from bots with no previous messages on their months-to-years old accounts. They're not even good at it, and clearly cheaped out on the tokens:
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There's also a small number of people complaining about the same company spamming everyone that starred OpenClaw, Agno and more GitHhb repositories and had a public email on their profile that could be easily scraped (direct link example 1, direct link example 2), and they're thankful for people complaining because it's "validating" their "agent framework":
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Their own GitHub repository is also half a sham. 7.4k stars in 2 months and 4k forks? Looking at them, they're all indians or bots. Those grifters are fucking with a very unstable equilibrium on the internet with their bot arms race, and it's just getting started.

Also, think you can do better than a bunch of models let loose with internet access? They're hiring!
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I’m starting to believe in the idea that startups exist to primarily scam their investors now rather than having any real intentions of making an actual business or selling a real product.
 
reptile baht spaniard rid said:
Hackernudes is having a bit of a melty discovering that ArsTechnica (home of PeterB, child molester in prison) uses AI to make up quotes


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American citizens are having bad health advice AND PUBLIC HEALTH POLICIES officially shoved down their throats by a man who freely and publicly admits to not being afraid of germs because he snorts cocaine off of toilet seats, appointed by another angry senile old man who recommends injecting disinfectant and shoving an ultraviolet flashlight up your ass to cure COVID. We don't have 10 years left.
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this comment is GOLD
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye

IN Thread 'Microsoft deletes blog telling users to train AI on pirated Harry Potter books'


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Microsoft generated an AI image of Harry Potter with a Microsoft logo in a now-deleted blog.

The now-deleted Harry Potter dataset was “mistakenly” marked public domain.

Ashley Belanger – Feb 20, 2026

Following backlash in a Hacker News thread, Microsoft deleted a blog post that critics said encouraged developers to pirate Harry Potter books to train AI models that could then be used to create AI...
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067759 (archive)
 
UERISIMILITUDO said:
I really just want to kill these motherfuckers already, so society can return to normalcy.

Anyway, I've become aware of some fascinating new drama recently:
archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog (archive) (archive)

I'll try to be brief. Apparently, archive.is is including JavaScript which attacks this person's website:
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I originally saw this story on slashdot. Wikipedia is removing hundreds of thousands of archive today links:


but it appears to have made it to Orange Reddit too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006 / https://archive.is/THJMg
 
HootersMcBoobies said:
I originally saw this story on slashdot. Wikipedia is removing hundreds of thousands of archive today links:


but it appears to have made it to Orange Reddit too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006 / https://archive.is/THJMg
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So fucking retarded, isn't Wikipedia supposed to be an impartial encyclopedia (LOL JKJK)? What benefit at all is there to this Internet pissing contest?
 
I liked this article about virtual textures in 3D graphics:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46913285 (archive)

It was neat to learn how this works, and how id Software used it. I anticipated things like keeping the lowest quality textures pinned, so that something is always available to the system. Anyway, the guy who wrote this article used a common image of a woman in an example, so someone had to complain:
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I was unaware this famous photograph was cropped pornography. Men may like looking at an attractive woman's face, and we can't have that. I took a look at the referenced replacement image:
https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/ (archive)
Ethically sourced Lena picture

Are you writing a publication where you want to use the Lena picture, but don’t want to support its troubled origin?
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I offer to you my recreation of the Lena/Lenna picture, which you can use to your hearts content.
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In other news, I read this from Hacker News a while back, and this time it's the article that's important:
https://www.deobald.ca/essays/2026-02-10-the-problem-with-llms/ (archive)

Here's the only paragraph anyone needs to read, really only the last sentence:
When I say “addiction”, I am referring to an addiction to getting things done. Especially if you already know what you’re doing, LLMs can make you feel superhuman. Like steroids or vyvanse, it’s a performance-enhancer. And like steroids or vyvanse, you can get hooked on the performance it enables. One friend, very much on the “YOLO as many tokens as the company can afford” end of the spectrum, said she had to cut herself off because she found herself prompting with her laptop open on the backs of motorcycles driving through the streets of Bangalore.
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Fucking jeets, man.
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It'd be funnier if there weren't so many of them in my country, where they can kill human beings while driving. I was on the interstate lately and noticed a big truck hitting the bump strip. I was the passenger, so I looked in the cab as we passed by, and there was a cell phone on the steering wheel.

This was also in a previous draft of this post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556729 (archive)

The long story short is some founder has cancer, and that's so inspirational or whatever. Look at what some cocksucker wrote:
DEDLINE said:
Listening to you stitch all the technology and innovation together, moving from the information world to the physical world, as a patient, almost brought me to tears.
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Yeah man, I want him to spray some of his innovation all over my face or whatever.
 
Archive of the picture (SFW)

UERISIMILITUDO said:
When I say “addiction”, I am referring to an addiction to getting things done. Especially if you already know what you’re doing, LLMs can make you feel superhuman. Like steroids or vyvanse, it’s a performance-enhancer. And like steroids or vyvanse, you can get hooked on the performance it enables. One friend, very much on the “YOLO as many tokens as the company can afford” end of the spectrum, said she had to cut herself off because she found herself prompting with her laptop open on the backs of motorcycles driving through the streets of Bangalore.​
Fucking jeets, man.
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This is chaalaki, the jeet art of looking like you're working hard while doing as little as possible.
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(X | nitter) You got the izzat primer via @XJosh, but now it's time for the “chaalaki” primer.Chaalaki is a concept in Indian culture that roughly translates to shrewd “cleverness.” It often refers to the ability to create the appearance of hard work while actually doing very little.

Pleasing superiors, gaining admiration from an audience, and perhaps even developing a reputation as a “hard worker” while minimizing or avoiding real work entirely - that’s chaalaki, and it’s considered a morally ambiguous, if begrudgingly respected, form of system scamming.

I am convinced that Indians gravitate towards cringe LinkedIn “hustle culture” and “founder culture” precisely because it’s basically a chaalaki Olympics.

It’s not about doing actual work, delivering results, or adding real value. It’s about creating the ILLUSION of being busy, important, or successful while not really doing anything.

Taking photos of yourself pattering away at your laptop, pretending to look stressed or busy, captioning it with some cringe bullshit about how you grind 19 hours a day, all while not having a single functional deliverable that warrants any of that… chaalaki.

Anyone who has worked with an Indian or even just seen an Indian working has probably experienced or witnessed some degree of chaalaki at play.

The Indian employee is always visible, attentive, and always APPEARS to be doing something… but closer scrutiny quickly raises the question of what, exactly, they are doing or what they’ve achieved.The results they do produce, after what seems to be an incredible amount of effort, tend to be incomplete, irrelevant, or littered with issues others then have to step in to fix.

Why? Because no effort was exerted at all. It was just an illusion. A minstrel show of what they think effort looks like to cultivate the correct external signals.

Not just in the workplace, universities are where Indians really refine their chaalaki. As students, they APPEAR to constantly be studying, but their education is limited to memorizing patterns rather than developing genuine understanding. So their grades are good and they have the appearance of being well-educated, but in reality they have learned exceedingly little.At its best, chaalaki is a form of optics-managed incompetence.

At its worst, it promotes the ideal conditions for scamming, lying, cutting corners, or cheating to maintain the illusion of competence or effort while minimizing the need for any real hard work.

This is an alien concept to the vast majority of the world, where hard work is considered a virtue, and only actual results (as opposed to the appearance of results) are praised.

With chaalaki, the longer or further you can go while doing as little as possible - the more clever you must be.

Combine izzat and chaalaki and you now have a pretty good understanding of why India is the way it is.
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