Hacker News: JoblessWonder

New comment by JoblessWonder in "SPECS Augmented Reality Glasses"

JoblessWonder — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:50:12 +0000

So.... this is weird... but in their video demo it has the address as "2772 State St" but the video was actually taken 100 State Street.... almost 16 blocks away.

Not only that but the augmented reality images have their "location" on the wrong corner.

I can understand not wanting to use a real restaurant (i guess?) but if you are faking literally everything then what is even the point of the demo? I sort of assumed it would be an overlay of video taken from the glasses along with the re-created output... but this just seems like they created the visuals after the fact to match the recorded glasses footage.

Here is a link to their screenshot from the video: https://images.ctfassets.net/o1znirz7lzo4/4CwEXSX8icqDQAtDrD...

(Note: I would like to thank my years of delivering pizzas in Santa Barbara during college for the knowledge to debunk this video.)

New comment by JoblessWonder in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

JoblessWonder — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:42:19 +0000

I feel like email overtook usernames because it was more likely to be unique/memorable. I hate when websites ask me to remember a username (even though I'm using a password manager so I should really just calm down.)

New comment by JoblessWonder in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

JoblessWonder — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:56:48 +0000

So I guess the solution is just to begin to allow accounts to always register multiple emails? Although I guess the issue of multiple accounts is still going to exist if the users don't know the initial (private) email that they signed up with though unless there is a different unique ID that everyone will be able to remember.

I'm curious (and not trolling by asking) what a solution might be since email has been used as a unique account identifier for so long it is hard for my brain to think of another option at the moment.

New comment by JoblessWonder in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

JoblessWonder — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:51:05 +0000

Yeah, blood in the stool should get it ordered.

New comment by JoblessWonder in "Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks"

JoblessWonder — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:48:38 +0000

Here is an example: https://x.com/Sephanade/status/2057539677767250212/mediaView...

New comment by JoblessWonder in "Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks"

JoblessWonder — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:48:10 +0000

Here is an example! You tune out the audio description but it is also on the screen: https://x.com/Sephanade/status/2057539677767250212/mediaView...

New comment by JoblessWonder in "Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks"

JoblessWonder — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:29:56 +0000

I wish... it is much more generic and touches on the plot which the audio description track wouldn't do. I'll see if I can find one. They are extremely annoying.

New comment by JoblessWonder in "Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks"

JoblessWonder — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:29:35 +0000

This isn't fully "Hidden" but I've always wondered if Ai scraping is the reason why short form videos on Youtube/TikTok/Instagram featuring film/tv clips will sometimes have 2 audio tracks... one with the actual audio from the clip a little louder and one audio track with a computer generated narrator providing running commentary of what is happening and why. As a human I'm able to tune it out but it is very weird/jarring.

In case anyone hasn't had the displeasure of viewing these I'll link some in a comment below once I scroll through my feed and find one.

New comment by JoblessWonder in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

JoblessWonder — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:07:26 +0000

One of our vendors started charging a 10% tariff fee for parts ordered from Switzerland... we passed that fee directly on to our customers as a line item. I can't imagine the headache when (not if) they come to us expecting a refund for that.

New comment by JoblessWonder in "How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage?"

JoblessWonder — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:53:14 +0000

If it was still uploading events then why did it take so long to recover?

New comment by JoblessWonder in "How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage?"

JoblessWonder — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:10:19 +0000

She apparently didn't have a subscription so it shouldn't have been uploading anywhere... however things get murky with notification settings.

New comment by JoblessWonder in "2 in 5 Americans did not read a single book in 2025"

JoblessWonder — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 06:19:53 +0000

Yeah… I didn’t say they both weren’t true due to a mathematical error… I was insinuating that the survey is probably flawed because if 20% of Americans can’t read… they likely aren’t even taking this survey.

It is also my uneducated guess that the actual percentage of Americans who haven’t read a single book in the past year is MUCH higher than 40%. Maybe a survey of HN commentators but not of the general population.

New comment by JoblessWonder in "2 in 5 Americans did not read a single book in 2025"

JoblessWonder — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:01:28 +0000

? What's going on man? I... didn't use any math in my comment?

New comment by JoblessWonder in "2 in 5 Americans did not read a single book in 2025"

JoblessWonder — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:41:00 +0000

1 in 5 Americans is functionally illiterate so.... yeah. There is no way this is true.

New comment by JoblessWonder in "2 in 5 Americans did not read a single book in 2025"

JoblessWonder — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:40:34 +0000

Aren't 1 out of 5 Americans functionally illiterate? [1] There is no way this is correct.

[1] https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-liter...

New comment by JoblessWonder in "Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed"

JoblessWonder — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:57:33 +0000

I think something like 25% of the population reports 0 household income.

(I don't understand the implications, it was just surprising when I heard that.)

New comment by JoblessWonder in "Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis"

JoblessWonder — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:57:50 +0000

I wish they would give a real-world cost estimate of what this would look like. They have a section of it "in action" [1] and I wish they would be like, "with this setup, the invoice is going to look like this, include these products, and with similar daily usage be about $XXX.00 per month."

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/moltworker-self-hosted-ai-agent/...

New comment by JoblessWonder in "Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis"

JoblessWonder — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:54:21 +0000

Oh man, so many big players are JUMPING on this bandwagon! I got an email for Digital Ocean's Moltbot app this morning. All of them are touting their increased security over rolling your own.

New comment by JoblessWonder in "Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot"

JoblessWonder — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:14:15 +0000

I see value in the LLM being able to read/integrate my iMessages since a lot of my scheduling/commitments are discussed on there.

New comment by JoblessWonder in "Claude's new constitution"

JoblessWonder — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:44:29 +0000

But if only one person feels that way, wouldn't it no longer be universal? I genuinely believe there has to be one person out there who would think it is moral.

(I'm just BSing on the internet... I took a few philosophy classes so if I'm off base or you don't want to engage in a pointless philosophical debate on HN I apologize in advance.)