A lot of people willingly get into scams because they think they're entering a position to be "in on it." Lots of ponzi scheme victims are like this. They know it's a ponzi schene and they know how ponzis work, but they think they'll be one of the people who cashes out before it ends. The breaking point is when the wrong person tries to cash out and they realize it already ended a while ago.
That's probably why Google tolerates all the blatant fraud against them by the avalanche of spam sites ruining the service. They're frauding google but google is frauding advertisers and they wouldn't be able to commit fraud to such a high degree if they couldn't tell advertisers that their ads got 10 gorillion fake impressions.
It's sad how fast some people are these days to just say "nope too hard, can't be done." Especially when it's something that WAS accomplished 20, 30, even 40+ years ago in some cases! How can someone watch a satellite train fly through the heavens and think pattern matching algorithms are an unsolved, even unsolvable problem? Such doomerism.
Google search still has that feature where the little preview blurb will bolden where it matches parts of your query so you can see what context the pattern appeared in. Always very useful but now it gives you a pretty good look at what google replaced your actual query with. Since I started paying attention to this, I've realized that most of the cases where I need to add a bunch of excluded keywords, I'm actually just gradually twisting googles arm into searching what I wanted to search. It takes a lot of excluded keywords sometimes until it finally runs out of ideas for stuff to replace my entire query with.
Can't wait for tomorrow's HN front page so we can learn about the 5 additional AI tools needed to make this work properly. And then the day after, each of those will require more agentic tools to manage the agents that manage the agents that manage the agents. Then you need to install Flooper to stop Wigwam from too aggressively rebooting the Glupgo instance that's in charge of making sure your credit card information doesn't get leaked by Chingler, which is needed to manage a shared clipboard between some of the agents but not all of them.
It's like a joke. I thought using AI was supposed to be easier than learning real skills, but I shudder to imagine having to rig up a 100 layer clusterfuck of nonsense like what some of you are apparently running. When will it finally be enough for the output to be worth anything? Is there any plan for that or is the plan to just keep throwing more of the exact same shit at the same wall until we're all dead?
I don't know where else to ask this but it's killing me. Does anyone know what the hell that GitHub physical CD thing was about? Did anyone in the world get theirs?
That was a fun thing that the marketing and devrel team are still working on, turns out burning repos on the discs was a harder problem than anticipated (lol) but we'll get them out eventually, promise!
Not the parent poster, but I've been getting really tired of 3d printed crap and Ai generated slop models have just made it worse.
For background I've been into 3d printing since 2013, my first printer was an acrylic i3 clone with a RAMPS controller running Marlin. I've built 3 printers over the years and use my current one pretty regularly. I've been a 3d printing evangelist for years.
That said, going to any sort of craft fair or places like Etsy, and low effort 3d printed garbage is really getting annoying. I was at my small, local renfaire earlier this summer and 1/4 of the booths were just selling 3d printed and laser cut stuff, most of which were designs that are easily found online. I've seen this kind of stuff taking over at other similar spaces, and have seen people complaining about it for a year or so. It would maybe not be so much of a problem if people were making their own designs, but when it's just a model off of printables with at best some minor tweaks made by an AI tool, I have trouble getting excited.
For reference, of the 10 vendors I actually talked to who were selling these kinds of things, none had made any models themselves or were even familiar with blender, tinkercad, or any other modeling tools. There were 3d printed 'ale steins' that had had text embossed onto them, or plywood tchotkes with AI art lasered onto them. Annoying, since anyone who has done even a basic Google search should be well aware that 3d printing, especially FDM, is a terrible process for something like a drinking glass, that will be bacteria heaven and impossible to properly clean without very specific post-processing.
So while I can't say this is why the parent poster was annoyed, this is one of the reasons someone would be annoyed with 3d printing. If I'm browsing at a renfaire, I'm looking for a handmade thing to add to my costume or home decor. The last thing I want to see in that type of environment is a Ai-generated image of a dragon burned onto a cheap set of bamboo coasters bought off of alibaba. I've seen videos and posts onli3of people expressing similar annoyances, but the have been crafting, sewing, and similar creators so probably outside the general HN zeitgeist.
Yes that's exactly where I'm coming from. I love 3D printing as a concept (funny how people will make up a whole life story for you online) but it has one very strong parallel with generative AI.
I see zero reason in the slightest to ever put a product of it in front of someone else. If I want a 3D printed dragon I can get the exact dragon I want printed for me. If I want an AI stock image I can have the exact image I want generated for me.
One of my concerns lately is the mountain of absolute crap that grows exponentially by the day. Any initiative to add yet more crap to the pile is something I'm against. There's already 1000+ crappy versions of every possible invention. Are we really in such dire need of more that there should be AIs shitting them out like machine guns?
You're not going to be able to find ANYTHING on amazon.
I mean, I wasn't inventing a life story. I added the detail to provide background on why I'm not anti-3d-printing generally. I'm coming from a place where I've helped multiple friends build their own 3d printers and have actually done the reprap thing of printing parts to make new printers.
>>"I see zero reason in the slightest to ever put a product of it in front of someone else"
That is many people's problem with it. It's super easy to set up the physical equivalent of AI slop at a craft fair. I'm not wanting to delve into it, but given the rise of vendors I wouldn't be surprised if selling 3d printed and laser cut stuff is the new meta being pushed by the same types of people who sell 'make money online' courses. Think the same type of worthless courses that a few years ago would be pitching dropshipping courses. Per my other comment, 3d printed beer steins. Anyone with any 3d printing experience should know that's a bad idea, but I saw multiple for sale.
Amazon is less infested, since they require you to print and ship up front for FBA, but it's still there. That was the 1st result for "3d fidget cone". Looks like they are selling at least some, although no clue how profitable it actually is. Amazon search is awful, but having to parse through garbage like this certainly doesn't help.
we had a lot of people ask us for help with their art projects.
try xfgr.ai where we tried super hard to preserve artistic intent, while also still managing to make press-brake simple bend brackets.
sendcutsend can do it as well, reasonably so. but you don't get the file. you have to buy the part from them, and they still own the file, you'll never get it for yourself.
I've gotten stuff that was 3-d printed and it was fascinating.
For example, ford has a square hole in some dashboards and someone made and sold a 3-d printed phone holder that perfectly fit into the hole.
I've seen tool trays that give you a place for all tools in a kit. This stuff used to be the territory of airplane mechanics who had to shadow their tools by regulation.
One of the defining characteristics of AI turned out to be utter and profound facelessness. The scraping, the data centers, the slop content, it's like it all comes from thin air. Nobody is talking about who is really doing all this or why, because it's always just coming from... somewhere else outside of our place.
I'm talking about managerial AI-induced psychosis and/or FOMO. Make the underlings use it so they can tell the shareholders that AI is making great strides.
I would love to do this. It's shocking how little Android offers for the hardware it uses. Recently I was thinking if I could install Windows 98 on my phone, even that would be better. At least I could have more than one app open without it burning all my work just because I dared to check info on a web page while filling a form.
Oh yes, the endless joy of "We have sent a one time code to your email." Yes, but if I switch to my email then I will lose my browser session and thus the code is useless. So you have to get out a laptop to open your email just so that you have 2FA on your phone.
And "please confirm this payment in your bank app". That one's even worse because the payment goes through while the site forgot what you were paying for. If you're lucky it gets refunded.
My LineageOS setup used to do that; until I found that someone found a script that would adjust the memory allocation and OOM killer to more sensible values. I just have that run on boot. No side effects.
Unfortunately, that's not an option for most people, the only choice is to complain - but not like there's any other option on the market that behaves better. Or there's some other drawback, or different UI to learn...
Sure; it was one of many posts in xda for a cheapo mid-level Chinese device. I haven't gone through it too deeply to understand and optimize further, works fine as-is to me.
