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bkloskyon AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You

> "except that the software industry is special"

This is the labor theory of value; consumers don't care if the code is hand-made, they want the cheap goods (software) that are the output.

bkloskyon I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again

how are these claude written blogs consistently making front page?

bkloskyon Show HN: How much of Hacker News is about AI?

you could fetch the text from linked blog posts over time and run 'em through pangram, I bet >20% of blogs linked on HN today are totally LLM written

bkloskyon Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers

I agree with you that most humans are trustworthy, but fraudulent actors will build trust with counterparties on your marketplace and then abscond. "Personally meeting with them" does not prevent a "long firm" from skipping town with the proceeds from a $6m order later.

I think what you guys are building is awesome, just gotta be really really careful with fraud and trust when building a marketplace in particular.

bkloskyon Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers

I’m very curious about how you’re fending off fraud— just wondering about how a lot of dark web transactions supposedly have escrow, but people waive it and then get burned. Do you have anything beyond KYC/escrow?

bkloskyon New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium

Regardless of your personal feelings about AI, this is pretty clumsy regulation that will just cause Tiebout sorting away from NY. If there are negative externalities, tax 'em, use the proceeds for some feel-good social programming, and let the data center builders internalize the costs...

bkloskyon Never Give Them Your Face

it's wild to me how many AI written articles get front page on HN

bkloskyon Google's 20% 'project' has become AI's 120% 'attention'

https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-papers/artificial-writing-a...

The OP article is also just so, so obviously AI slop... if you're already thinking "this is probably AI" and pangram thinks the same, that's fairly damning.

bkloskyon Google's 20% 'project' has become AI's 120% 'attention'

Pangram reports 76% of this text is AI generated.

bkloskyon Legislation Killed Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock

You're making a strong statement about the counterfactual here; how could you know? Clearance rates for most crimes in the US are abysmal, the expected outcome for most crimes is "unsolved."

bkloskyon At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025

Poverty alleviation is not a silver bullet (or anywhere close) for crime reduction, as nice as it would be if that were true.

bkloskyon Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES

According to Pangram, this is likely AI generated, surprised that no one has pointed this out

bkloskyon I built "Middle Class Museum", a tour of things that used to be affordable

This is straight up AI generated economic disinformation. Are you seriously claiming that computers cost more in real terms today than 20 years ago?? Some of these goods (housing) do cost more, but a lot of these examples don't make any sense.

bkloskyon New York could prohibit chatbot medical, legal, engineering advice

Rent seeking via occupational licensing, there is nothing new under the sun

bkloskyon What if AI is both good and not that disruptive?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0254477200A

bkloskyon AI Slop vs. OSS Security

Companies soliciting big bounties should charge a fee to submit, making slop costly. Steam, the video game publisher, does this. Developers need to pay a fee to list their game, and if their game sells sufficient volume, the fee is returned. Creating a separating equilibrium here is not hard, the hand wringing is weird to me.