Hacker News: Dumblydorr

New comment by Dumblydorr in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

Dumblydorr — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:21:35 +0000

Might be a reference to the story at the beginning of A Brief History of Time, attributed to Bertrand Russell’s audience member.

Full story in the book

New comment by Dumblydorr in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

Dumblydorr — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:29:56 +0000

Price point: they’ll be very low volume and very high price. There’s enough inequality and plenty of cash at the top to support such luxury robots. Everyone else will be doing their chores the old fashioned way, with their own hands.

New comment by Dumblydorr in "The lost civic life of movie rental stores"

Dumblydorr — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:15:40 +0000

“Never” is a bit presumptuous. Sure you didn’t use them that way, how do you know for sure others didn’t?

New comment by Dumblydorr in "It's getting harder to focus every day"

Dumblydorr — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:59:29 +0000

You don’t necessarily want to daydream. If you’re not careful, it becomes Negative rumination and mind wandering and that wouldn’t be as useful as an actual nap or a workout or meditation.

New comment by Dumblydorr in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

Dumblydorr — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:55:56 +0000

Wow! Can I ask how Kagi is best for your uses? Would love to try myself

New comment by Dumblydorr in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

Dumblydorr — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:54:20 +0000

Yeah that one was praising in a non-specific way. Whether or not it’s genuinely a user, it did feel like astroturfing, which is sad if it’s a real comment that they can’t compliment a good service.

New comment by Dumblydorr in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

Dumblydorr — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:11:33 +0000

Are many folks on HN using Facebook? To me, most tech savvy folks I know left it a decade ago. All the FB users I know are 60+

New comment by Dumblydorr in "Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid"

Dumblydorr — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:13:36 +0000

We should normalize taking gap years and doing public service before undergrad. If a kids uncertain about their future, should we push them into school at 18, or push them into national parks maintenance, inner city volunteering, or any other public duty? The latter doesn’t make as much money for the banks and colleges, but may do more good. Plus the kids will have experience and wisdom and see the world before taking a mortgage out on their brain.

New comment by Dumblydorr in "Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid"

Dumblydorr — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:11:29 +0000

What about 17 year olds? Many kids have to decide before their 18th birthday. Even then, most kids turned 18 just months ago. Are they mature enough to sign?

New comment by Dumblydorr in "Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas"

Dumblydorr — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:14:18 +0000

Actual feces

New comment by Dumblydorr in "Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)"

Dumblydorr — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:50:09 +0000

Either they underestimate, which is ignorance, or they estimate properly and are anti-truth.

What use do propagandists and fascists have for research? It only stands to continually disprove their lies. They obviously hate science and truth and want it gone, to be replaced with cult of personality and Christian nationalism.

New comment by Dumblydorr in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

Dumblydorr — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:26:27 +0000

“Brought on by government edict”

No, brought on by a novel pathogen that killed 10 million people. It would’ve been much worse without government action.

New comment by Dumblydorr in "Learning to code is still worthwhile"

Dumblydorr — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:08:08 +0000

Thin post with more ads for their company than arguments.

Many pursuits are worthwhile, yet almost no one does most pursuits. Coding is going to become a niche activity like portrait painting or making toys. It’s fun but there’s far cheaper easier ways to get a superior product.

New comment by Dumblydorr in "What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?"

Dumblydorr — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:33:04 +0000

Jeff doesn’t care what you do period. They’re in another plane, it’s some poor schmucks now with only a few million fighting for table scraps of the billionaires who don’t care.

New comment by Dumblydorr in "Europe's new climate in seven charts"

Dumblydorr — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:36:38 +0000

You can’t. All you can do is realize every trip you take and every bite of beef is yet another drop in the bucket. Every vote for a denialist is probably worth 100s of burgers too, sad to say.

You must choose if your hedonism outweighs the good of our biosphere now and in future. The billions of unborn humans. The trillions of innocent life forms that might go extinct. That blue bird or cardinal in the yard with no AC. The coral reefs decimated. The poor humans suffering tremendously. We have a choice to slightly reduce these things.

Most people choose hedonism.

New comment by Dumblydorr in "Europe's new climate in seven charts"

Dumblydorr — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:28:00 +0000

You seem to forget about hydrogen bombs. War can 100% end everything.

New comment by Dumblydorr in "Europe's new climate in seven charts"

Dumblydorr — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:14:56 +0000

Keep in mind total emissions grew much much faster in our lifetime (let’s say 1980-2026) than in the prior 200 years, which was before most of the recent huge growth in Chinese and Indian emissions.

Also the ocean and arctic were absorbing the majority of the heat. The arctics been going through these heat waves for 10 years, its white albedo decreasing and potentially permafrost melting making more effective emissions now.

We must act. Stop eating beef. Stop taking trips if possible. Vote for those who care about climate, not bugaboos like immigration. We have real problems like climate, and jump-scare tribal problems like immigrants and foreigners, which are actually good for a nation.

Saying this just having emerged from a heat dome, New England forest is not built for feels like 105F. Many living things in my own backyard are now heavily stressed by climate. We. Must. Act.

New comment by Dumblydorr in "Most arguments are about ego, not ideas"

Dumblydorr — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:39:07 +0000

They never mention they could’ve been wrong. The author assumes they’re always right, but that trying to convince others and argue them to their right side is not valuable.

How about: maybe I’m wrong and I didn’t let their ideas influence me. How about: even when I think I’m right, it will be better to calmly kindly discuss, listening as much as talking, not debating or arguing or speaking over them, but attempting to see new perspectives.

I could well be wrong about this :)

New comment by Dumblydorr in "Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other"

Dumblydorr — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:30:31 +0000

Problem is no one visits those sites. Everyone visits the same sources of content robotically, they need to be taken on a random walk by something to find new sites.

New comment by Dumblydorr in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"

Dumblydorr — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:47:41 +0000

They don’t like heat? That seems incorrect. If true, Then why are they a huge problem in TX and other southerly areas, and are only now spreading north?