I hope you’re right. It does seem like we’re finally coming down off the peak of the hype cycle. I use Claude Code daily, but man I am just tired of hearing about AI. I’m tired of holding off on backing up my home server because disks are so expensive. I’m tired of HN being 50% articles about AI.

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randusername a day ago | parent | next [-]

I'm tired of friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors being revealed as soulless time-optimizing automatons.

2026 has been the year "you're not just X, you're Y" creeped into sermons and birthday cards. I want off this roller coaster.

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anon373839 a day ago | parent [-]

I'm tired of this too, but don't judge your friends too harshly. What I've learned is that many folks are copying slop because they feel insecure in their abilities. They think that the AI will do a better job than they can, not realizing that the human touch is what the recipient actually wants.

	▲	RiverCrochet 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No empathy. If you want to merely appear skilled instead of actually being skilled, and use false artifacts of skill to reap rewards, you deserve very harsh judgement.

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BLKNSLVR 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> holding off on backing up my home server because disks are so expensive

I think there are so many people in this same situation, not just with disks (and RAM), but all of the components because of bottlenecks of upgrading one without others, that there's going to be this on-going surge in demand starting from corporate and then trickling through decreasingly sized businesses and then finally the consumer market and this could keep prices higher for longer than most people are expecting.

I recently bought some second hand ex-terminal servers to run homelab stuff. I'd have preferred to get one big-ish thing to run it all, but it was more cost effective to get a handful of smaller, lower-spec devices since that's not what people are trying to get their hands on at the moment.

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greesil 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Or written by AI. Or commented on by AI.

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broodbucket 2 days ago | parent [-]

I'd love a flag for "Show HN"s that indicate the author actually wrote it themselves so I can go back to being impressed by them

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cppluajs 2 days ago | parent [-]

I think at this point writing like stream of consciousness / having imperfect grammar acts like a soft signal and I am inclined to pay it more attention.

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broodbucket 2 days ago | parent [-]

I feel for those who genuinely liked using emdashes in their writing

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grey-area 2 days ago | parent [-]

Em dashes are not the problem, nobody cares about their use. Shoddy and melodramatic writing that doesn’t even make sense is the problem.

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broodbucket 2 days ago | parent [-]

The point is that nowadays people will see anything with emdashes and assume it is slop even if it's hand written

	▲	phil21 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Certainly has changed my writing style. Now I just vastly overuse commas in inappropriate ways!