7/15/2026 at 9:36:49 PM
by tony_cannistra
7/15/2026 at 11:02:07 PM
Lol ok, neat, I guess? Thanks for telling us all something no one asked forby skullone
7/15/2026 at 11:03:14 PM
I'll be honest, I probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a human-only created typeface and an AI assisted typeface.by Isaackoz
7/15/2026 at 11:02:34 PM
AI-free software is the new organic food.by dmitriy_ko
7/15/2026 at 10:57:39 PM
Where are the voices of reason?My wife got an email from a new hire (now even a new hire yet: she's still on a trial basis), a 23 years old, where she explains that she doesn't want to use AI. That she doesn't like what AI does. On a funny sidenote: the email is obviously 99% llmish, which is hilarious.
That's one extremity: crazy people who refuse to learn a new tool.
Then on the other extremity you have the even much crazier ones: those who believe they've got an intelligent machine that is going to solve all their work problems during the day and then, at night, that is going to enlighten them by revealing them who god really is.
Where the heck are the reasonable people who use AI for what it is: a tool that can be extremely helpful at times and extremely sucky at other times but that is still, on average, a time saver?
by TacticalCoder
7/15/2026 at 11:05:04 PM
We're right here! Some of us just prefer to stay out of these silly irrational debates because we know that neither of those two crazy camps will listen to a word we, or anyone else, will say. We might be wrong about that (I hope we're wrong about that!) but there sure are enough other people chattering that it's easy to sit back and let them have it out.by exmadscientist
7/15/2026 at 11:03:55 PM
> Where the heck are the reasonable people who use AI for what it is: a tool that can be extremely helpful at times and extremely sucky at other times but that is still, on average, a time saver?They're unlikely to be vocal because they've already evaluated and decided the role AI will play in their work/life and just moved on/kept working. That's also likely to be a small pool of people relative to the number of people interacting with AI (either by force or choice).
by rglover
7/15/2026 at 10:16:38 PM
The site was back up but now it's down again for some reason.by notenlish
7/15/2026 at 10:50:30 PM
Should have one shotted an assembly rewrite for maximum serving efficiencyby greenavocado
7/15/2026 at 10:06:50 PM
FYI just 502'dby simonreiff
7/15/2026 at 10:06:55 PM
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by wizzwizz4
7/15/2026 at 10:43:44 PM
[dead]by cherrylimesoda
7/15/2026 at 10:34:16 PM
No AI needed for the design and build of custom metal either, and with a similar long human effort that I am privilaged to be aware and part of that I am quite certain cant be handled useing any computational averaging. Funnily enough, I have had and am right now involved in a project that the customer tried to have AI design, but that the most basic calculations were wrong. It's worse, as even humans working with highly developed design and estimating software, cant deliver accurate shop plans for real world projects that involve irregular surfaces or curves, and changing slopes that must be measured on site. AI will help you enjoy your cubes and parallograms, and cover them with realistic textures.by metalman
7/15/2026 at 10:26:45 PM
Noticing a lot of different variations of “LOL hugged to death. Maybe ask AI to fix your site.” here.Such juvenile behavior can only be attributed to the general unease and defensiveness demonstrated by members of the AI cult in the face of criticism:
“Your blasphemy against our god has been duly punished… you must pray for his forgiveness.”
by therobots927
7/15/2026 at 10:55:46 PM
A website flaming out and dying in the face of unusual traffic is a perfectly reasonable business decision. These "witty" comments are effectively self owns.by bcrosby95
7/15/2026 at 10:34:56 PM
These people should know that it's a type designer's website, not a software shop. The site works from here so I know;)by ShinyLeftPad
7/15/2026 at 10:07:14 PM
to the people claiming "hugged to death", this website works for me while on a train in rural Germany (anyone who lives in Europe should be all too aware about phone network quality here).As for the content: fully agree. Human touch is a value in itself. Unfortunately, modern capitalism does not provide incentives to take care about value, because (by capitalism's metrics) value is inefficiency.
by mschuster91
7/15/2026 at 11:06:54 PM
[dead]by x0i
7/15/2026 at 10:02:41 PM
hugged to death at 8 points and 20 minutes in frontpage.Please use AI (or anything) to fix your site.
by subygan
7/15/2026 at 10:17:33 PM
Well, they're using Render which you'd think they'd be able to handle HN traffic. Not a good look for Render as a service, especially when their first item under product is autoscaling.by dawnerd
7/15/2026 at 10:19:52 PM
Edge caching seems to be opt-inby tg180
7/15/2026 at 10:18:38 PM
Sorry for the disruption! This is 100x our normal peak traffic, needed to raise the instance limit.by mass-driver
7/15/2026 at 10:19:50 PM
It's the natural vinyl warmthby hexasquid
7/15/2026 at 9:56:01 PM
[flagged]by blinkbat
7/15/2026 at 10:01:48 PM
It works fine for me. Either it's swamped with traffic, or something sucks ass on your end.by simoncion
7/15/2026 at 10:49:31 PM
[flagged]by protocolture
7/15/2026 at 10:52:10 PM
What is the point of such a clear false equivalency, aside from snideness?by happytoexplain
7/15/2026 at 10:57:30 PM
What is the point of telling everyone you dont use AI aside from virtue signalling?by protocolture
7/15/2026 at 11:04:48 PM
I believe we before we had "virtue signaling" we called it "sharing opinions"by tony_cannistra
7/15/2026 at 10:59:47 PM
[flagged]by colonelspace
7/15/2026 at 10:01:08 PM
[flagged]by jasoncartwright
7/15/2026 at 10:59:27 PM
Maybe you think this is a witty comment, but ironically it illustrates exactly the problem with outsourcing your thinking to a machine. All they needed to do was raise the instance limit, which they immediately did when they saw the surge of traffic.No expensive tokens needed, no agents needed, no outsourcing their work to some calculator. The problem was solved even faster than an LLM would have, and they maintained full control and understanding of their systems while solving the problem. It's almost like human expertise is great.
And you know, the whole "maybe ask AI thing" is exactly what everyone is making fun of. Any engineer worth their salt should be able to look at a system crashing under heavy load and come up with a few proper solutions to the problem that don't involve "ask ChatGPT", but people have completely replaced their thinking with this "I'll just ask the calculator" laziness. It's sad, pathetic to see really.
by solid_fuel
7/15/2026 at 10:19:58 PM
All these "principled" people telling others that "they practice what they preach" shooting themselves in the foot with their "production" site down and hugged to death on the front page.Just ask the AI to set up your site for better uptime if you don't know how to.
by rvz
7/15/2026 at 10:42:11 PM
You say this as if almost every AI generated landing page posted to HN isn't falling apart at the seams.by bbg2401
7/15/2026 at 10:18:46 PM
Artists: No cold-hearted machine can ever replicate the ingenuity, the innate creativity and passionate soul of the artiste.Later: The villain cat has the catchphrases 'Purrrfect' and 'You must be kitten me'. The snake character makes lotsss of sss noissesss.
by hexasquid
7/15/2026 at 10:38:59 PM
Why wouldn't a snake character make lots of ssss noises? I've never met one in real life but I have to imagine the tongue is an impediment.by nozzlegear
7/15/2026 at 10:31:36 PM
This (and all the disgusting "hugged to death, you're dumb, use AI" comments that have replaced HN's normal venom-less "hugged to death" comments) makes me want to leave Hacker News.by happytoexplain
7/15/2026 at 11:00:24 PM
If it is that bad then I sincerely apologise.by hexasquid
7/15/2026 at 10:44:17 PM
It’s a mixed bag. You have insufferable mouth breathing morons who think AGI is here, and on the other hand you have rational - dare I say enlightened - individuals such as yourself.by therobots927
7/15/2026 at 10:42:41 PM
And yet people still prefer it over AI slop.by javascriptfan69
7/15/2026 at 10:58:32 PM
I shall call it artist slop.by hexasquid