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New comment by DougN7 in "DishwasherBench – Can Frontier Models Stack a Dishwasher?"

DougN7 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:19:22 +0000

The stacking regime is meant to maximize water flow and surface exposure to water jets, at least when optimized.

New comment by DougN7 in "What is going on with ceiling fans"

DougN7 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:10:54 +0000

I would love to buy an LED bulb that lasts a long time. I thought the reason for their premium price was supposed long lifetime. Mine all last as long as the older bulbs but cost 5X as much. Where can I buy such bulbs in the US?

New comment by DougN7 in "Writing code by hand is over, forever"

DougN7 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:21:25 +0000

I think you might be right. For $20/month (Claude Code) it’s worth it. If I’m forced to upgrade to $100/month I’ll drop it.

New comment by DougN7 in "Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux"

DougN7 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 01:36:29 +0000

That is one game I was so looking forward to. So very excited about this!!

New comment by DougN7 in "Writing code by hand is over, forever"

DougN7 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:39:08 +0000

I’m a developer of 30 years, but writing a game completely with AI. It writes all the code and has something like 200 test cases now . It does well with what it understands but there are all kinds of things it fails at. Like it didn’t blink at an interactive turn-based game taking 10 minutes per turn (instead if an expected 15-30 seconds). That was caused by recomputing everything rather than caching, which I pointed out. There were 3 areas that referred to something we changed. I had to point out what was no longer coherent. AI can write code well, but it just doesn’t have the memory/context size to drive a real world project of any size. It still needs someone else to do the thinking and planning. If I didn’t code I don’t think it would have known where to look to fix many performance problems. I’m not at all worried about it taking my job.

New comment by DougN7 in "Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent"

DougN7 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:40:21 +0000

Even then if the agent goes rogue and decides to do the merges you can’t stop it if it has any kind of access. This goes back to the OP’s point - agents can’t be 100% constrained.

New comment by DougN7 in "Show HN: RxFilm Studio–Create and edit your product videos with AI agent"

DougN7 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:24:11 +0000

I have such a hard time imagining this working well. I used an AI service to make a picture of an archer in a different position from where the image originally showed him and it consistently insisted on swapping the arrow tip and the feathers, so feathers at the front of the arrow. Just because you give these things instructions does not mean they get followed precisely.

New comment by DougN7 in "Show HN: Ax-check.com – Can agents use your product?"

DougN7 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:13:09 +0000

Does it follow redirects? My non-www hostname redirects to the www hostname, but ax-check.com says it gets no response back. Any reason it can't take the hostname as-is instead of stripping off the www?

New comment by DougN7 in "Show HN: Ax-check.com – Can agents use your product?"

DougN7 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:09:47 +0000

I'm getting the same thing. My non-www redirects to the www domain. Maybe it can't follow redirects?

New comment by DougN7 in "Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity"

DougN7 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:06:26 +0000

I just read another long post on HN about whether AIs are conscious and should therefore have rights. That decisions could massive effects, and making them appear to have emotions is therefore a big impact, not just unpredictability.

New comment by DougN7 in "Site Is Closed on Sundays"

DougN7 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:37:39 +0000

I’m happy for you and your family so far. What I saw with my kids (now in their 20’s) is they changed from what you are describing with your kids when peer pressure entered their lives, and always-on entertainment of every sort was in their pockets. Many/most of their earlier interests sadly could not compete in the dopamine arena of life. I hope you’ll find a way to parent better than I did, but keep this “tech fast” idea in your back pocket - you might be surprised to need it some day.

New comment by DougN7 in "Burnt out on a three-day week"

DougN7 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:41:46 +0000

Can you expand on that? I’m not sure I agree, and at the same time I think you might be saying something profound that I haven’t understood.

New comment by DougN7 in "Trial is 40 days. Not until you're 40"

DougN7 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:14:23 +0000

I believe it’s because the account is newish

New comment by DougN7 in "Anger, Anxiety and Agency"

DougN7 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:15:20 +0000

I attempt to live sort of like this too. My mother is beside herself with all of the wildfires in the world. In my opinion that is like stabbing your hand with a fork. I’m aware of lots of problems in the world, but I can’t do much if anything about them. So I let them go - I’m not going to injure myself over something I can’t control. Uncertainty is the same - worry and anger injure yourself, but changes nothing. Don’t subject yourself to needless pain. I just wish I could live by these words all the time, but it’s hard.

New comment by DougN7 in "Every shape can be cut exactly in half with one straight line"

DougN7 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:25:03 +0000

I was thinking the exact same thing. There is no way it’s not continuous (except maybe inside a black hole where space-time rules break down?)

New comment by DougN7 in "Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA"

DougN7 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:59:11 +0000

I can’t comment on HOAs being historically racist - I’ve not seen it. But how would that work? They don’t (at least now) get to vote on who is allowed to buy. So how would they keep out whoever they decided was undesirable? Were there bylaws about skin color?

New comment by DougN7 in "Claude Code Teaching macOS to Natively Print to the HP Laser 1008a"

DougN7 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:55:34 +0000

I find it uses “faithful” an awful lot. But it comes in waves - not at all for a few days and then 10 times in an hour.

New comment by DougN7 in "Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA"

DougN7 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:52:25 +0000

I’m sorry but this kind of thinking is non-sense. There are surely a few cases where someone lets power go to their head, but that happens in every place where humans have any power.

I’m on an HOA board because no else wants to because it’s boring. We maintain a large green space with walking paths and a community pool, and garbage pickup. We have whites, blacks, asians, hispanics, etc and nobody cares. Sometimes there is shared land in a development that has to be managed and somebody has to do it.

New comment by DougN7 in "Robot Videos: Heavy Lift Cargo Drones, Grippers, More"

DougN7 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:09:27 +0000

Agree - felt like a waste of time to watch it

New comment by DougN7 in "More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts"

DougN7 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:15:14 +0000

I’m sure you could make a ton of money on oil if you had a 30 minute heads up about whether Trump was going to bomb Iran or not on any given day.