Reason #1337 to install an ad blocker.

I wonder what it says about social media that a news aggregator started in 2007 whose minimalist interface hasn't changed much since then and which is operated by a venture capital firm to shovel ads for their own investments is literally peak social media for a certain demographic. Like, maybe that's all that's really needed. There should be a news aggregator for people who like cars or for people who like knitting or whatever and they should all look and behave just like Hacker News. A car company just needs to start one of these and do good moderation. Bingo. Social media is solved. Go home. It's over. All the ideas since then? Microblogging? ActivityPub? Subreddits/communities? Apps? It's all unneeded.

is there a way to revive the interest for programming and building projects

Read some books on programming. Or read some programs others have written. This was good advice for finding inspiration even before AI.

Found the Russian bot. Have fun on my block list.

And decades later they're multibillionaires who hold all the traits of multibillionaires. They're into transhumanism, the singularity, effective altruism, microdosing, owning your own private yachts, planes, and islands, donating to conservative candidates, and moving their assets to avoid paying taxes. Complete scum. Utopia isn't going to happen when all your AI shit is making creative people miserable.

Study math at university, start a search engine company using your sick math skillz, become the evil businessman you presumably hated when you started out, and then use your wealth to fund AI that will make nobody want to study math at university. Pulling up the ladder. What a world.

I bet there's some degree of sensationalist reporting here. It's a bit too reminiscent of WarGames for me to believe this actually happened.

"Well, I obviously choose to have the numnums. Where are the 5 people? I don't see them." -- baby without object permanence probably

Al Gore: it's like Al Slop but worse.

Some of these have to be fake. Nothing ever happens.

Chances are those apps were hoovering up all the data and then used for personalized advertising. The users are literally telling you what they need to buy. It doesn't get better than that.

So much of what gets invented today is just gimmicky shit which has no earthly use except to make you consume more.

I would prefer they use clip art from an older version of the Office suite.