What a depressing thing to read on _hacker_ news of all places

You might want to read this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture

It's just a name, after all. More accurately, this site would be titled VC Incubator News.

And how boring it would be if that's all it was.

How much venture capital is incubating Haiku?

"What a depressing thing to read..."

You should get out more...

Your link is not, in any way, a response to my comment.

Are you telling me hacker news isn't just for advertising vibe coded slop services as a get rich quick scheme? Impossible, why did claude put it in my marketing.md then? (/s in case it isn't obvious)

HN isn't reddit, for better and for worse. This is the "Orange Site" that gave us Sam Altman, defends monopolies and shits out thousands of net-negative SaaS startups that leech off Open Source software. Manufacture of depression is one of YC's byproducts that everyone loves to ignore while berating Flock and 9 Mothers like they spontaneously popped into existence.

Your peers on this website are not principled, fun-loving Freenode/Libera geeks. HN is the Linkdin of underground social networking.

Given that you’re saying that in a discussion thread about HaikuOS, allow me to doubt it. I’ve been active with this account for more than 13 years now and do continue to find enough of the hacker ethos for me to engage with

This is unexpectedly one of the saddest comments I have ever read here.

The "everything needs to have a purpose and make money" mentality here is very exhausting.

We could say the same for most of the comments on this site, including yours and mine.

I'd love to hear your critique of an art gallery

You need to put the sarcasm tag on things these days, no telling who might actually mean what you said.

I meant what I said. People here seem to have a very narrow definition of useful.

For fun.

Because they can.

There are so many projects that come up here that have the tag line of "This is such a stupid idea that I just had to do it!".

We can do things just for the fun of it. Woz made the Apple computer basically as a toy, nothing more. And that's cool.

Are you useful?

That's the scary part about AI and the transformation it'll have on society. The answer to that question for all of us, soon enough, will be no, not useful enough vs an AI. Then what happens?

Maybe, but it’s not gonna be because of LLMs