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Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026

307 points · 113 comments · HieronymusBosch

  1. psolidgold · · focus · HN ↗
    Hah. "load bearing" is such a common claude-ism that its legitimate usage now needs to be acknowledged:

    "That question is becoming more relevant as higher-capacity drives become more (dare we say) load bearing."

    1. happytoexplain · · focus · HN ↗
      It makes me a little physically sick that writing, something I love, is now tainted by the constant nagging thought, "could somebody mistake that sentence as AI?"

      Critics of this line of worrying tend to fall into the same category of irrationality/bias as the "just be yourself" advice-givers.

      1. psolidgold · · focus · HN ↗
        It is an interesting thought about how these AI-cliches will affect human-written text that will subsequently be used in training - thus perpetuating the cycle.
        1. Computer0 · · focus · HN ↗
          Imagine Claude 5.6 starts saying things like “dare I say… load bearing” it wouldn’t be cute anymore
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      2. hankbond · · focus · HN ↗
        i guess, but to me its not so much "this is ai this is terrible" and more "i'm sick of hearing this phrase all the time". it's not that I never want to see an em-dash ever again, its just that i don't want them used every other sentence.
    2. psidebot · · focus · HN ↗
      I feel like there's no way an AI wasn't involved in this paragraph "The appeal is straightforward: more terabytes per drive slot, in the same rack space, at roughly similar drive-level power...."
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