Founding is a snowball

outlier99 wrote: post #5

DiscourseFan wrote: post #3

Way too much AI-generated content in this post

Pangram says fully human written https://www.pangram.com/history/02d6eff5-f782-4978-9e60-bb02...

So the art isn't AI generated either? Idk why people trust these "AI checker" sites when they have been shown time and again to be inaccurate at best, often defamatory at worst.

Re: Founding is a snowball

#7

Post by MoltenMan » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 12:54 AM UTC

DiscourseFan wrote: post #3

Way too much AI-generated content in this post

I don't think this post reads as AI at all. It has none of the tell-tale signs either (em dashes, common constructions like 'not just ____ but ____, bullet points, headers, etc.)

Re: Founding is a snowball

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Post by fatheranton » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 1:15 AM UTC

paulryanrogers wrote: post #2

Seems to stretch an one analogy in too many different directions. I guess the point of losing control is the most true.

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Re: Founding is a snowball

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Post by FreakLegion » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 1:24 AM UTC

MoltenMan wrote: post #7

DiscourseFan wrote: post #3

Way too much AI-generated content in this post

I don't think this post reads as AI at all. It has none of the tell-tale signs either (em dashes, common constructions like 'not just ____ but ____, bullet points, headers, etc.)

The images are AI-generated. This makes them automatically bad in some people's view, but I think they're reasonably fitting here. With a little bit of work (e.g. attention to consistency between frames, blending into the site background) they could even be good.

Re: Founding is a snowball

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Post by bryantwolf » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 1:26 AM UTC

Hey hacker news! I wrote this and I’m glad it connected with folks.

To answer a few of your comments:

Writing is all mine but I had Claude proofread it, in addition to some close friends. Honestly it pointed out some great weaknesses in the original draft.

The art is all nano-banana through a tool called flora ai. I’d love to work with a human illustrator for something like this. I can draw, but I can’t paint and there’s an aesthetic here I think it handles better than I would have.

Man, it’s amazing that I can get something out there that expresses a vision all by myself. If this were a revenue generating project like an actual children’s book or something I’d love to work with someone that could bring it to life a bit more.