Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

#1

Post by julienreszka » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 9:40 AM UTC

Vent out. Maybe one of us will find a fix.

I'm mad that economic policies in France aren't based on what models say is best next action but on elections. Democracy really sucks.

I'm also very annoyed that models are censoring stuff without even clarifying what's wrong with the prompt.

I don't like that content distribution is still mostly owned by a few platforms. Something is deeply odd with that.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

#2

Post by fsuts » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC

Profit margin of authentication providers.

They must be ridiculously high

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

#3

Post by vintagedave » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 10:21 AM UTC

The role AIs may play in censorship in future - simply by 'not knowing' or refusing to speak of something - bothers me a lot. That aligns with your worry.

I used to think their main risk was spam or propaganda. Now I think it's curation of knowledge, history, and thought.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

#4

Post by pbkompasz » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 10:21 AM UTC

AI

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

#5

Post by khoury » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 10:23 AM UTC

The combination of outsourcing to India and AI and how it's destroying western job markets to squeeze out more profits to a few on top.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

#6

Post by adlpz » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 10:26 AM UTC

Wealth concentration beyond a point which would have resulted in widespread revolution 150 years ago, but that is now being tolerated because we've grown accustomed to a level of comfort we don't want to risk losing.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

#7

Post by aureate » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 10:26 AM UTC

Assuming your two uses of "model" have the same meaning, I'm mad that people are seriously suggesting we scrap representative democracy in favour of government by LLM output.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

#8

Post by reactordev » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 10:26 AM UTC

Aside from politics, the current state of corporate paralysis is killing me.

I make my living by building solutions. Companies usually are chock full of problems that need solutions. Companies are still full of problems that need solutions but they are completely paralyzed because they think if they wait a quarter or two, a model will come along and solve all their problems.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

#9

Post by cyanydeez » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 10:27 AM UTC

fascism

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#10

Post by iberator » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 10:28 AM UTC

Unemployment and forced downshifting. From 200k programmer to McDonald's worker and call centre worker in just 4 years...

Its brutal. Once you are out at 35+ for an even year or two - it's impossible to go back.

AI takes jobs faster than creating new ones.

ps. Just got laid off from the Temu call(chat) centre. AI IS taking our jobs.

completely devastated