Ask HN: Is there any founder building non AI startup in 2026?
Ask HN: Is there any founder building non AI startup in 2026 ? Just curious to know what other founders are building around and what are current challenges. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591829 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
I'm building the first Artificial Emotion (AE) model where it just whines and cries and has emotional outbursts 24/7 like "wahh how come all the startups are only AI wahhhh wahhh" just exactly like your post which is a flawless embedding vector which I just trained on for free making the model even bitchier than ever.
Now you might be thinking "I got 99 problems already I don't need no Artificial Emotion, what gives? where's the value??" and the answer to that is simple:
While you're over here making Will Smith eat spaghetti, playing hankie pankie with your friends in Elon Musk's old house, I'm literally crying at scale.
Every time you make a new AI movie, I fill a new glass with productive tears, literally producing the water your planet killing technology depletes.
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