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This is very satisfying to play with, top work!

I was simplifying my HN comment for brevity, I didn't just go "you've made a mistake by not hiring me, gimme the job" in the letter.

Putting all of the ethical issues aside, do you know how fucking boring this would be?

I like the top reply:

> "The true purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill without allowing skill to access wealth."

I was rejected from a job interview a few years ago - wow 13 years ago now - and was honestly shocked after how well the interview went.

I decided to write a letter (email) to the HR department implying they'd made a huge mistake (the head of HR was in the interview too). She (as much as I knew at the time) overruled my would-be boss and the rest is history.

Best email I ever sent.

No I'm not, I expressed it...

I prefaced it with that to simply say I knew it'd be an unpopular opinion.

I'm going to get downvoted/flagged but I feel like we need a new type of "Show HN/Tell HN" etc for "New AI Model Available".

Front page is tedious these days.

Sure, they retarget ads they think you might want to see, but the difference is when using Google you are actively looking for something, not passively.

When you use Google you are generally actively looking for something. When you use Facebook you get ads for things you aren't looking for.

So. Many. Commas.

OP clearly meant that the AI players are not reading and/or honouring llms.txt of other websites when scraping.

Semi linked:

I, like many others, play Wordle daily. When the page loads, there is a button to play todays challenge. Then, there is a very small delay (like 100ms) and suddenly a button to "View all games" appears, right where you would have tapped/clicked on the button to play the puzzle. To me, viewing all games is a way to "see what you could have" if you subscribed.

No, I think "us" is apt, considering this will eventually affect all sites that rely on traffic from Google search, which is basically every text heavy site.

All we can hope for is that people will stop using search (after eventually having enough of the AI wave) for these sort of niche sites and will bookmark and access them directly in future. I don't have much hope.

Crazy. I'm sure I paid around $40-70 back in 2016.

Honestly Plex has been wearing me down for years but I'm too lazy to move to an alternative.

I think (a public) phpMyAdmin in 2026 deserves a good bashing.

(I have been working with PHP for 20 years)

Came here to say this. Absolutely insane.

Why is phpMyAdmin even still needed/wanted in 2026? It's not exactly user friendly for a developer, let alone an average Gov employee...

Cool idea but I am not old enough/have not have enough (any) interest in some of the older products, so I think a "skip" option would be cool.

An airgapped TV I expect.

GitLab isn't much better right now either unfortunately.

My partner and I were planning a West Coast trip for the World Cup this year for my 40th, but we decided to solely do Canada instead. Can't see how it won't end up being the best decision we've ever made.

I can't edit nor be bothered to reply to all of the negative responses so I'll put it here.

Pretty much all of you missed the larger point. PHP was what allowed me to not work in retail forever, buy a forever house, never have to worry about losing my job (this may change in the future with AI) or being at risk for redundancy, having chosen to only work for small, "normal" well run profitable businesses.

Unless you're building a hyper scale product, it does the job perfectly. PHP itself is not a security issue; using it poorly is, and any language can be used poorly. PHP is still perfectly suitable for web dev, especially in 2026.

Also the language that runs half of the web.

Also the language that has made me millions over my career with no degree.

Also the language that allows people to be up and running in seconds (with or without AI).

I could go on.

You'll just see it within AI responses instead.

Are you seeing a return yet? Semi-serious question.

How are you spending that much?

> Reminder. What passes for news today wouldn’t have registered for most people 100 years ago.

This is a great point.

Will programs even exist in the future? Surely the AIs will just take input and return output?

I feel similar but since starting to use Claude (only 4 days ago) I get it. "Vibe coding" to me is just a new term for pair programming.

Ah yes, I was being dense. I was so obsessed with the steepness of the last point drop and completely missed the overall trend line! Thanks.

I find this very interesting, but am I being dense here? https://www.arthurcnops.blog/images/hn-show-dead-one-point.s...

The legend says SHNs are getting worse, but surely if the % of SHN posts with 1 point is going DOWN (as per graph) then it's getting better? Either I am dense or the legends are the wrong way round no?