Starling: The first real desktop written by AI

Post by fatata123 » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 2:11 AM UTC

starlingos wrote: post #15

mindwok wrote: post #7

This post makes me feel grief. I mean no offence to you OP, this looks like a beautiful desktop and I am sure there was a lot of time put into this. But just sharing my grief. 3 years ago if I saw a post on the HN front page about a desktop environment written in Flutter (or a Swift port of Flutter), I'd be absolutely blown away. Now, I see this, and I feel nothing. I'm not impressed. I don't want to know how it work…

There is another angle for this story. Without AI, people like me can just dream about an idea, but never or difficult to implement those ideas. Now it’s just possible: https://starling.build/why.html

Post by tomhow » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 11:32 PM UTC

emsign wrote: post #27

lyu07282 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except for gamers, they are even more virulently anti-AI than this community is.

This community is very pro-AI. Just look at the top news, sometimes it's 3/4 AI topics. AI topics get hundreds of likes, AI critical news or stuff that hints at problems and undesirable consequences of the AI boom only get a fraction of it. HN readers just do not care. The majority here is hyped about AI. HN changed a lot since the LLM boom, not to the better, it got really boring in fact.