"That isn't writing at all, it's typing."

- Truman Capote on Kerouac's work.

(I love Kerouac...)

Capote was right. Kerouac had been writing the book for years in notebooks. His first /typed/ draft took three weeks.

https://thedailybeatblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/jack-kerouac-d...

The anecdote was featured in the book Slow Productivity.

They are laying people off so they can spend the money on AI data centers.

You are right. But the real world is a messy place. Good people do bad things and vice versa. Not many people are entirely good or entirely bad.

HN is a very strong net positive IMO. YC could easily monetize it into oblivion. They don't.

My understanding is that HN is monetized e.g. marketing is explicitly permitted by founders etc.

I guess that's not conventional monetisation.

They arguably do. Just look at the valuation of YC. They are just being smart about it.

They do not monetize but may do probably something worse, infotize or narratize (just invented words). By using an almost neutral, altruistic platform to subtly control/constrain the narratives on certain tech overlords. As much as I love HN, I do not agree with their reasoning to flag some of the posts that are negative to the tech elites.

I think the reply should be "they had eggs".

Milo might have had slaves, the forklifts of his time....

You've got to pass a test first.

Very well said.

No the $ devalued against the euro by about 11% in the past 12 months. Look at a chart.

It's not happening because I'm not using an AI to summarize text. At the moment slop text is also fairly easy to recognise, so I can just ignore it instead.