Why “User” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
As an end user of this and not a person involved in training models or aligning them, I have only the most rudimentary understanding. But I think that would be a lot harder sinc…
by walrus01 · Sep 11, 2026
cue the smallest sad violin Snarky reaction aside, and actually reading the article, it says that the problem is something along the lines of "we incentivized and rewarded busin…
by sakisv · Sep 11, 2026
Interestingly, I'm long time user of Pianoteq, and other physically modeled instruments like SWAM. In my eyes, pianoteq has somewhat plateaued in terms of realism in recent year…
by hazenut · Sep 11, 2026
I can buy the idea that AIs are making people a lot lazier intellectually, on average. But I do think that for the atypical user that is "information-hungry," AIs are a massive…
by keiferski · Sep 11, 2026
It shows the sad state of user experience that applications completely ignore how different platforms function. For websites, I would expect them to follow the web conventions o…
by bluGill · Sep 11, 2026
Not sure whether the latency between your last sentence and follow-up question from the AI would be small enough for it to not be intrusive. As another user noted in a comment,…
by kailpa1 · Sep 11, 2026
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