Person of Interest

jordz

I absolutely loved this show, and to be honest a rewatch is needed. I won’t make any reference to specifics due to spoilers. Would recommend.

tosh

great show, if you haven't watched it yet

swiftcoder

I also started watching this for the first time this summer, and it holds up remarkably well

Brajeshwar

Rewatched a few times. Unfortunately, around the end seasons, it became predictable and “extended”. There are quite a few screens on their computer that were borrowed from unsuspecting sources — such as the screens from the App, DaisyDisk. https://x.com/brajeshwar/status/1733390176112800037

s_u_d_o

Would I enjoy watching it for the first-time today? Or I should’ve watched it before, and re-watch it now to have this feeling/realization?

yewenjie

I don't what HN's opinion of Mr. Robot is, but some of you will definitely like it. It's not really about hacking, but it depicted technology and hacking in an extraordinarily level of correctness.

Bl4cksmith

One of the most interesting details I've found to be are the scenes that show why AI system alignment is difficult

nashashmi

Suggested this rewatch in the age of AI to my wife who was oblivious to it. Jonathan Nolan did a tremendous job with this. The concepts it showed were theoretical back in the old days. Now some are real. Some have passed. Like AI fixing code and closing loopholes. Like too much unchecked power in a few hands. Some have yet to come to pass. Like terrorists. Like crime neutralizing machines. Like misalignments. Like power limits. Like Rogue AI. Like self preserving AI. Like servants to an AI. Like God mode.

comrade1234

I enjoyed this show a lot and I was looking forward to westworld as a continuation of the story - I wanted to see what Nolan would do with the story when the AIs are corporeal, but ultimately westworld was a disappointment, spending too much of the story in the fantasy world.

insidiousa

https://www.netflix.com/watch/70296223

Semaphor

Loved that show when it came out. Rewatched it with my wife a few years ago, still great.

dave7

Incredibly prescient show, I loved it at the time and it's definitely worthy of a rewatch soon. > I also find it pretty crazy and, frankly, a little sad to think that something like the Machine, which seemed like pure science fiction at the time, isn't all that far from our reality today. Yeah. "You are being watched. The govt. has a secret system - a machine - that spies on you every hour of every day". The opening words from the show's title sequence - Jumped straight to mind after the revelations of Microsoft building "a machine" for the IDF on Azure not so long ago. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-isra...

brador

You don’t want a free internet, you want a nice internet with nice people who can argue but don’t insult each other too harshly. I still remember the weird shock I felt the first time I saw “kys” as a reply and looked it up. Something changed that day. Wasn’t even to me.

bilsbie

This show is the epitome of “you have to watch a few seasons before it gets good”. (Which if you think about it is an absurd thing to tell someone. Ie Invest 24 hours of your time into this show before you decide) When I watched it I thought the privacy model the AI used was dumb but it kind of makes some sense.

jan_m_savage

POI is a great show also because of the two main characters, the geek and his execution-man, both accomplished actors. One of my most fav TV Serials to have come out of the West.

2Gkashmiri

It's one of those gems in the wild. If there is a show that I can rewatch, it's this. I am more interested in how the philosophy of the show, how the ethics tie into real world implications. We talk about open source licenses in a grand manner which some might say " why does it matter" but this show shows how the philosophical decisions tie into overall ideas and what it can do.

nikosklms

Reese and Finch carried that entire show. The way their dynamic shifted over the first two seasons was easily the best part of the run lmao

doginasuit

Person of Interest is a relentlessly silly show, although you wouldn't necessarily pick up on it at first. It leans into it more with each season until that's all there is. I still enjoyed it, it is pretty self aware. I would not watch it with the idea that it has any relevance to anything.

gnfargbl

Why is this blog post written in two slightly different but semantically equivalent ways, with a tearline between the two versions? I feel like I'm being A/B tested by a broken AI.

totetsu

looking at my apple social graph on my hdd as seen here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50403097 Im feeing the premis of this show is not so far off..