oscaracso (u/oscaracso)

oscaracso commented on Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986 wallstreetraider.com/stor... · Posted by u/benstopics

kolinko · 13 hours ago

So if something is written by an LLM it makes it an infomercial?

Also, what are you comparing this post to? Because you should compare it to the author’s own writing and according to the author, his writing is not that good.

oscaracso · 8 hours ago

If the author cannot write then he should not write.

oscaracso commented on Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986 wallstreetraider.com/stor... · Posted by u/benstopics

infecto · 12 hours ago

Move along then? Anecdotal datapoint but all the anti LLM comments in here are a lot of less than a year old accounts.

If you don’t like something simply move along. Constructive criticism is great but the volume of overly negative and honestly nasty replies like yours are not in the spirit of HN.

oscaracso · 8 hours ago

>Constructive criticism is great

Good, I will continue to voice it. Unfortunately it takes me several thousand times longer to complain about AI slop polluting the bulletin than it does to populate the bulletin with AI slop, which is the actual nastiness going on here.

oscaracso commented on Vim 9.2 vim.org/vim-9.2-released.... · Posted by u/tapanjk

bko · 10 hours ago

Do I understand it correctly, but people donating to Vim, presumably for the support of the software, have their donations passed along to a charity supporting children in Uganda?

oscaracso · 9 hours ago

I wanted to understand it too, so I clicked on the donate button and was greeted by this message: 'All donations are directed toward a good cause: helping children in Uganda. This charity is personally recommended by Vim’s creator. Funds are used to support a children's center in southern Uganda, providing food, education, and health care to communities affected by AIDS.'

oscaracso commented on Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986 wallstreetraider.com/stor... · Posted by u/benstopics

benstopics · 14 hours ago

Most people enjoyed it. It is the same as the game. Most people like the remaster direction, a subgroup vehemently dislike specific design decisions and they don't always overlap. The more people that learn about the game the volume of feedback goes up and so does the volume of negative feedback. Just telling you feel my perspective, take it when a grain of salt. So you learn to take negatively, especially emotionally charged negativity, with a grain of salt. And you have a compulsion to ignore it. But I'm a very self aware person and I try to see the other side. I may not understand it, I may not agree, but I try to listen and understand. But to say I blanket missing the criticism is a flippant remark in my opinion. I'm not an idiot... It's easy to tell AI was involved and it turned many people off. But they also crap on the stuff I wrote from scratch. So is it AI or just that I suck at writing? It was just to share the story. I reread it multiple times and I enjoy the story even knowing it like the back is my hand. I lived it. I write stuff for me. I remastered the game for me and to share with like minded people. Honestly, the article being anti-AI rage bait is a low pass filter for people who could have said anything, and instead, they chose to NIT the article. But I try to be open minded and do better, but I am only human, not an AI, I have emotions and opinions. I'm sure most of those opinions are flawed. But I'm not mad at any of the criticism and I appreciate it.

oscaracso · 14 hours ago

I would like to congratulate you on your self-awareness.

oscaracso commented on Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986 wallstreetraider.com/stor... · Posted by u/benstopics

SeanDav · 14 hours ago

I.Don't.Care.

I enjoyed the narrative. It was true. Who cares if it was written by a ghost writer, an AI or anything else.

oscaracso · 14 hours ago

I did not read it because the prose was insipid. Maybe the project is interesting, but I won't know because I'm not going to read an infomercial. You must understand that this stuff is not to everyone's taste.

oscaracso commented on Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

TSiege · 19 days ago

A train is barreling down the tracks while you stand at a switch. Do nothing and the train will destroy dozens of bicycles. If you pull the switch the train will kill one woman you've never met.

You sure you still wanna pull that switch?

oscaracso · 19 days ago

The false dichotomy you present does not become any more credible in the form of a thought experiment.

oscaracso commented on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp... · Posted by u/cdrnsf

gmd63 · a month ago

The fuss about AI is interesting to me in music. The most popular and commercially successful artists are already basically using "AI" by having teams of people produce their ideas for them, if they're not outright buying a hit from someone like Max Martin. If you watch Timbaland's Masterclass, he is essentially squeaking noises into a mic which his underlings toil away with and produce into beats.

If you don't like the AI workflow, humans are already offering that workflow to the richest and most successful among us. The new tech is kind of leveling the playing field in that sense. When you think about how AI is applied in other fields, it's basically on the way to giving everyone CEO powers, allowing them to delegate vague directives into action. Whether there's room for 8 billion CEOs on earth remains to be seen.

I personally think barriers to entry in certain industries are features, so we aren't drowned in a sea of careless whims and can more easily find products made with love, dedication, and well articulated intent.

oscaracso · a month ago

The music is produced by a large team and the headlining artist reduced to a brand in that case, but ultimately it is still a team of people. The use of AI in their place forecloses the possibility of their artistic drive overcoming and subverting the conformist demands of the music industry.

oscaracso commented on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp... · Posted by u/cdrnsf

andai · a month ago

>someday someone will come along and make a genuine artistic viable piece of work using ai

Always has been :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpUj9zpOiP0

(And honorary mention)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYKAOPj_uts

oscaracso · a month ago

Lobotomywave

oscaracso commented on 90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet state-of-iranblackout.whi... · Posted by u/silencednetizen

yodon · a month ago

Clearly other HN readers consider news of as many as 12,000 people possibly having been killed by their government to be important, and consider the discussion happening about it on this page to be interesting to them.

oscaracso · a month ago

It is a shame they are indifferent to the degree of AI slop ('Then came the order. Not a shutdown-- something worse. The routers didn't go silent. They screamed. Filtering rules conflicted. Routes flapped. The network began eating itself alive.') as it neither lends credibility to the source nor respects the humanity of the story's subjects. It would be far better were other HN readers more discerning.

oscaracso commented on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp... · Posted by u/cdrnsf

hmokiguess · a month ago

I have a maybe unpopular opinion to share.

We now sort of accepted the idea of “vibe coding”, and, even shared appreciation from people who are using it to resuscitate side projects and things they wanted to do but required a lot of work. (Heck, even Linus Torvalds is doing it).

Is “Vibe Music / Art” any different? For example, I am not a drummer, say I use Suno to program some drums for me so I can record my guitar on top, and finally release that track I’ve been procrastinating.

I think the analogy here holds. Not all vibe coding is good, and not all vibe art is bad.

oscaracso · a month ago

The use of the AI drums would pollute your original guitar work with sounds that, interpreted as music, are necessarily derivative and unsentimental. I agree that the technological aspect is a red herring, but art and coding are dissimilar in their aims.