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You can say that about almost every failed product ever. The AI pin that was just a wrapper to chatgpt could've been amazing if it did everything it promised.

I'm actually talking about the people defending the reality of what was released.

I can't help but laugh at the number of people on HN that kept trying to convince everyone this wasn't a terrible product.

Web3 is doing great!

Google purposely killing the golden goose by forcing all of its users to use the AI overview is a bold strategy.

I don't understand why so many Europeans believed Trump in the Whitehouse wouldn't affect them.

> As long as a corporation is a shield to commit crimes with impunity, nothing will change.

AI simply makes it easier for corporations to commit crimes with impunity, now they can distance themselves from responsibility even further. No one has even bothered to levy fines for AI agents hacking or corporations violating copyright to train their models.

> Namecheap banned a few domain names purely based on an ambiguous tweet that got 6 likes

I can't believe this is real.

> Aren't they mostly piloted by people?

In which country? People normally consider outsourcing to a cheaper country as taking jobs.

One of the top post on the steam sub reddit is titled "They got us guys." as if they work for Valve.

Bonus points, this is the text from the post.

> How out of touch can you be as a company, this is embarrassing

> No one cares more about your case than you, so take control and send lots of follow-ups.

This advice can be applied to most things in the life. Expecting the machine in any context to take care of you will likely leave you disappointed.

Fortunately we're only in week 30 of our 2 week war, should be over any day now.

hacked or backdoored? [1]

> The four-page security note, a copy of which was reviewed by Reuters, said that undocumented cellular radios had been discovered “in certain foreign-manufactured power inverters and BMS,” referring to battery management systems.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-warns-hidden-rad...

> What crime did he actually commit?

Fraud

Sounds as if they're drinking a little too much of their own Flavor Aid.

> Do we really expect all the world’s corporations to suddenly up their annual spend by 1,000% on average? Why?

because AI is gonna make them so much more productive of course. /s

On the same day they interduce AI flight controllers? [1]

Press X for doubt.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2026/09/21/nx-s1-5976816/faa-ai-manage-a...

I absolutely hate that so many sites are begging me to use them.

That sounds like a worse experience to me.

> There are 3 billion users of FB/WhatsApp/Instagram combined

Is there tho? I have Facebook account but don't use it in any meaningful way. I'm certainly not feeding it any new data. I'm curious to know what percentage of that 3 billion are zombie accounts like mine.

> we occasionally have the difficult choice to discontinue features that require disproportionate maintenance resources.

Am I really expected to believe that the billions of dollars the company makes in pure profit can't sustain this feature? Am I really expected to believe the touted productively gains granted by Google's AI can't sustain this feature?

Its important to note that US deficit spending is breaking records. They can't even pretend that they're saving money.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/u-budget-d...

We have $1.2B to prevent wind power but not to feed starving kids [1]?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/18/trump-admini...

> From 11 to 3 employees. Doesn't seem that outrageous outside

I hope I never have you as my manager If you think a ~70% reduction in head count isn't outrageous.

> The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year [1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-cyclospora-lab-doge-downsize...

Or don't commit fraud worth millions of dollars using your personal Windows machine.

> When Mei was 4, one of her kindergarten teachers pulled Linda aside: Mei didn’t draw or write as well as the other kids and her language skills weren’t developing normally. Her mother might want to get her evaluated, the teacher said. In March 2023, Mei was diagnosed with global developmental delay, a broad label with many causes. Specialists explained that some of Mei’s behaviors—the funny sounds she liked to make, for instance—were associated with autism.

Rough year for the cranky geeks cast.

> Major US ISPs (Comcast, AT&T) should detect clearly suspicious activity coming from customer IPs and warn them to scan their computers, check their TV apps, and find whatever is turning their internet into a proxy. It's very bad for the customers too (slows things down, gets their IP banned, etc)

Does having TLS everywhere make this much harder?

Its time to abolish ICE.