Hacker News: DM70

New comment by DM70 in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

DM70 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:28:42 +0000

Generally, majority of bans are wrong. Excessive freedom limitations limit personal development and economic growth. For thousands of years people were brewing, cooking and making things at home. People dying from car accidents, yet we do not ban cars, don't we? Because cars have major utility value plus play huge part in economy. At the same time, some forces pent decades fighting tobacco companies, destroying true American and British business icons. And somehow replaced them with proliferation all kinds of narcotics and dangerous chemical vapes, which earn huge revenues for literal potential military enemies, and with chemical sin food, water and air, which kill people more than tobacco did. Which suggests it could have been more about money/geopolitics rather than people's safety.

New comment by DM70 in "Happy Map"

DM70 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:19:50 +0000

I played with the map a little bit. I think its cool at the first glance. What is missing is how it necessarily applies to me, user? I can understand that probably what makes people truly happy universally is applicable to me. But probably could use some quick guidance. You say it in your description - story, although this moment is buried in longer description of methodology. I also had to figure out on my own that each individual response is example of what can make me happy. Still, I think this map has potential for more cool features base don this data.

New comment by DM70 in "Lawsuit over who owns top ranked coding bootcamp Codesmith"

DM70 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:47:49 +0000

That is why paperwork trail, clear agreements put on paper, are important - to avoid creating ground for unnecessary disputes. Anything can be challenged in court, but having proper basic (not so expensive sometimes) legal paperwork is necessary. A form agreement from legal service provider is better than no agreement at all. However, I suspect in this case they had agreements in place, but the dispute arose regardless of that because big company - big money involved.

New comment by DM70 in "Can AI Think?"

DM70 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:47:20 +0000

That's a very good question which probably will spawn multiple PhD's. Probably not at this stage. However, AI hallucinations resemble hallucinations of human subconscious mind. Thinking is next stage.

New comment by DM70 in "Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove"

DM70 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:43:18 +0000

It is genuinely hard to create anything in the music area now, even music itself. I grew up as a kid when music reached its peak and started declining - 1990s-2000s. Frankly, it i very sad because new generation is missing on something very big and good now. I listen to some new stuff and its literally created for robots, not humans. I call it zombie music because it is hard to recognize the difference between artist or band - they often us literally the same melody and phrases. I am not sure if tech industry can resolve this problem - the world is losing its music soul. Hence, that's why concerts are possible way to go - back to the ancient basics - personal performance wins - because you see actual perosn doing it and you either get very engage dor not.

New comment by DM70 in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

DM70 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:38:44 +0000

I was attempting at building web-site templates with pretty design for certain sports - chess, for example. I was also building a new image card game - entertainment value. I have not completed those projects, and may finish latter. However, random numbers generator in JS - is this Ai or not?

New comment by DM70 in "Is VC the new PMF strategy?"

DM70 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:34:33 +0000

Well, obtaining VC funding is a validating of valid workable business model worth serious attention. This is nothing new - most ideas go unfunded and some are lost forever. Some great ideas were lost because they were not funded, most likely. Think of VC funding as a final validation tool.

New comment by DM70 in "I collected startup ideas. It changed how I think about ideas completely"

DM70 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:31:39 +0000

I would say the good idea is something that you solve for yourself - sort of solving personal problem. And then realizing you can market that as your product to help others solve the same problem. That's the main idea of any business or any tech startup. Isn't it?

New comment by DM70 in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

DM70 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:27:24 +0000

May I ask you if your project does what nobody else does in USA?