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Post by dang » Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 4:50 AM UTC

roxolotl wrote: post #30

I’m sure I’ll get flak for this but I’m sorry we can argue about AI all day and there’s a lot of stuff that’s being built and is genuinely depressing but this takes the cake. There’s few memories I cherish more of childhood than being read The Hobbit at the age of your children. The best part was my dad would slip in nonsense sentences when it seemed like I was drifting off. “And then Roxolotl hops out and grabs the…

Please don't turn a positive memory of your own experience into a hostile response to someone else. Parenting is probably the single most personal and intimate matter that gets discussed on HN, and it's extremely sensitive. There's basically no place for telling someone else that they're a bad parent here. It's always going to land as a personal attack and a particularly painful one. I realize you didn't intend it that way, but what matters is effects, not intent. We're all just doing the best we can.

I'm glad you got to have that wonderful time with your father.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: undefined

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Post by zapzupnz » Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 5:08 AM UTC

JohnMatthias wrote: post #48

Or you could just read your daughters bed time stories yourself, instead of burning the Planet Earth and Humanity in the process. You love making Scam Altman rich don't you? Keep worshiping those "AI AGENTS.MD".

Do you think you're really changing anybody's mind raving like this, copy-pasting the same garbage on every AI-related post? Do you genuinely believe you're penetrating hearts and minds, causing people to reevaluate their choices?

Put another way: do you truly see insulting people's sense of agency with cutesy misspellings of other people's names as an effective way to making the world a better place?

Your messages read like the ravings of those who think putting a dollar sign in Micro$oft was really sticking it to the man. Nothing short of an irritating, rumbling, moaning noise.

Re: undefined

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Post by School-Cotton » Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 5:37 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #51

roxolotl wrote: post #30

I’m sure I’ll get flak for this but I’m sorry we can argue about AI all day and there’s a lot of stuff that’s being built and is genuinely depressing but this takes the cake. There’s few memories I cherish more of childhood than being read The Hobbit at the age of your children. The best part was my dad would slip in nonsense sentences when it seemed like I was drifting off. “And then Roxolotl hops out and grabs the…

Please don't turn a positive memory of your own experience into a hostile response to someone else. Parenting is probably the single most personal and intimate matter that gets discussed on HN, and it's extremely sensitive. There's basically no place for telling someone else that they're a bad parent here. It's always going to land as a personal attack and a particularly painful one. I realize you didn't intend it th…

Curious why you responded to this comment in particular when 90%+ of the comments express roughly the same sentiment.

A world in which people are entertaining their kids with AI-generated slop seems self-evidently horrific and it’s normal for people to want to push back on that.

Re: undefined

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Post by dang » Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 6:01 AM UTC

School-Cotton wrote: post #53

dang wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don't turn a positive memory of your own experience into a hostile response to someone else. Parenting is probably the single most personal and intimate matter that gets discussed on HN, and it's extremely sensitive. There's basically no place for telling someone else that they're a bad parent here. It's always going to land as a personal attack and a particularly painful one. I realize you didn't intend it th…

Curious why you responded to this comment in particular when 90%+ of the comments express roughly the same sentiment. A world in which people are entertaining their kids with AI-generated slop seems self-evidently horrific and it’s normal for people to want to push back on that.

I guess because (1) It was the top comment at the time, (2) there were a lot fewer comments at that moment; (3) it was more personally critical than the others (though again, I'm sure that was unintentional).