This "Code is cheap. Show me the talk." punchline gets overused as a bait these days. It is an alright article but that's a lot of words to tell us something we already know. There's nothing here that we don't already know. It's not just greedy companies riding the AI wave. Bloggers and influencers are also riding the AI wave. They know if you say anything positive or negative about AI with a catchy title it will trend on HN, Reddit, etc.

Also credit where credit is due. Origin of this punchline:

https://nitter.net/jason_young1231/status/193518070341689789...

https://programmerhumor.io/ai-memes/code-is-cheap-show-me-th...

> That's got to be why one UK VC after another is closing their doors.

One after another? The only one that closed office was Andreessen Horowitz.

What's the "another"? I don't know why all the London threads attract this kind of dishonest comments!

I have done a lot of social work with Bangladeshi community. What many people don't know that the Bangladeshi wives who come as dependants speak better English than their husbands and sometimes as good as the natives.

I was surprised the first time I got into volunteer work. Figured that these wives have never spoken English in their home country. So when they moved to London, they learnt English from scratch and picked up the local accent and speaking style. Their grammar may not be perfect sometimes but whose is?

> English no longer functions reliably as the default public language

Absolutely false. My god! Have you even been to London? Stop consuming propaganda from Twitter/X and Facebook. It isn't good for your mental health.

Yes, as I have said, over 10 years.

I do not use Twitter nor Facebook. I watch YouTube videos. These YouTubers have >1M subscribers.

I don't know what >1M subscribers have got to do anything. It is the case that many YouTubers pushing a specific propaganda have >1M subscribers. YouTube may be a little better than Twitter or Facebook but if you land upon any propaganda, the algorithm will loop you in and keep supplying more and more propaganda videos. 1M subscribers or 1000 subscribers doesn't matter once you are stuck in the loop.

I see you have not been around in London for over 10 years. How was it back when you were in London? I've been in London for 10 years, so I probably came when you left. Never once I have been in any part of London where English was not the lingua franca. Yes, people speak their native languages too among themselves but I haven't met anyone anywhere in my 10 years who couldn't speak English. I don't think this is any different from any other megacity of the world.

Where are you pulling this random 15% number from? And a ridiculous number too. It's more like 2% to 3% unless you spend your entire day traveling.

I just checked how much I pay for travel. My monthly travel expenses is £150 total. That's like between 2% to 3% of someone's net income (depends on how much net income you make).

Do you know it is impossible to 15% of your net income in travel because there is a weekly fare cap: https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/find-fares/capping

Worst case scenario, you are traveling too much every week to max out the fare cap across all travel zones. Your monthly total would be £244. That's like 3% to 6% of your net income. But this is the worst case scenario. If you are spending 6% of your net income on travel, maybe you should reconsider which zone you live in.

So seriously where are you pulling out this ridiculous 15% number from?

Extrapolated from past earnings, but yeah if rent takes 60% of net salary then monthly train will more in the 5-10% range of net salary.

The website has been made by AI. May be it has learned from its training that this kind of confirm box is cheeky humor for humans?

Yes, it is wrong. Take the top one:

> We rewrote it in Rust so you have to upvote it

I'm pretty sure they didn't go through all the trouble of rewriting it in Rust to get some internet forum points!

To quote Foghorn Leghorn: It's a joke, son, you're supposed to laugh.

The joke was fun the first time. When the joke posts (low effort AI slop no less!) are spammed to HN every week, it stops being fun.

Its on the front page, that means it atttracted attention and was upvoted. If what you are saying was true, these posts would die very quickly and we would never see them.

Maybe its just you who doesnt like them?

I guess if everyone thinks mocking peoples' projects and efforts is funny, it's okay!

My opinion is a weakly that this is tiring and borderline insulting to people who are genuinely looking for feedback and community. Clever once a year or so, but the creator has leaned into it and posted a lot of meta in a small timeline.

Then if the community agrees with you, these posts will get zero upvotes and we will never see them on the front page again.

If not, then you will start seeing them more and more and you will need to suck it up my friend!

> Maybe its just you who doesnt like them?

Obviously it's just me who doesn't like them. What's your point?

I already made my point. If the community agrees with you then we wont see these on the front page anymore. If not then you will either need to be ok with seeing more of them, or not read HN.

> The joke was fun the first time.

> ...

> it stops being fun.

Right. Sorry. We apologise. We didn't know the joke police was monitoring.

Usually, people highlight functional/architectural changes over superficial things like language choice.

But it sure does lampoon a current point which is that people seem pretty quick to want to share their Rust rewrites of other software.

> As a result, I can no longer log in and lost access to all my Kindle e-books.

Can't you file a suit in a small claims court?

How is this happening though? What's the democratic process there that's allowing this kind of stuff to happen?