Hacker News: VCFundedGenYer

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group"

VCFundedGenYer — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 13:31:39 +0000

Digg was briefly rebooted but once again died mere months after launch. Now they're peddling AI scams and the like.

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group"

VCFundedGenYer — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 13:30:14 +0000

This was expected. Despite ill-advised views, AI was indeed NFTs in slow motion. We're finally returning to normalcy.

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "ISponsorBlockTV: SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients"

VCFundedGenYer — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 13:27:59 +0000

They can find another way to earn money. Patreon, etc are much better ways. Sponsors and ads are objectively irritating.

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "ISponsorBlockTV: SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients"

VCFundedGenYer — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 13:26:15 +0000

FYI you should reword your headline and nomenclature. This makes it sound like you made a thing for YouTube TV (and it is not at all possible to block ads on live TV without pre-recording)

YouTube TV is a product offered by Google and it's not at all the same as YouTube.

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "ISponsorBlockTV: SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients"

VCFundedGenYer — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 13:25:47 +0000

There would never be a way to do this on YouTube TV proper as it airs live.

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "As the Japanese countryside empties out, wildlife is disappearing"

VCFundedGenYer — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:16:51 +0000

What? There are plenty of areas in the US that have hollowed out ghost towns. Pennsylvania, Indiana, etc.

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "Bong: DuckDuckGo bang alternative, open-source and self-hosted"

VCFundedGenYer — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:13:44 +0000

This is confusing.

the website is just a search engine. Doesn't explain what it does differently.

The name is "Bong" which I assume is a play on an unrelated search engine Bing. What does DDG have to do with this other than some shared search engine results?

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why"

VCFundedGenYer — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 14:48:08 +0000

I've not seen the performance deficits demonstrated in this article. The article also does not discuss the specs.

Not to mention Windows is a very heavy slow inefficient and poorly made OS.

You don't see these issues generally on Linux or macOS.

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?"

VCFundedGenYer — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 23:09:31 +0000

Unity UI, Ads in the OS, paid subscriptions, Snap, partnership with Amazon, etc, etc, etc.

At least 15 years of nonsense.

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?"

VCFundedGenYer — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 23:08:45 +0000

Debian.

Ubuntu should be your last choice.

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?"

VCFundedGenYer — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 23:07:57 +0000

Ubuntu is the Microsoft of the Linux world. Endlessly corporate, terrible decisions, and bureaucracy that’s prevents things from getting done quickly.

If you rely on Ubuntu, move to Debian.

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "The Valley Bubble Breaks"

VCFundedGenYer — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 23:02:42 +0000

Gonna need to see some sources on that claim.

LLMs do not do math well and most of their calculations are quite false.

Copilot can’t even count to 20.

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "The Valley Bubble Breaks"

VCFundedGenYer — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 23:01:23 +0000

People are tired of the low quality AI generated nonsense that has flooded everything.

This tech is a certified failure and needs to be regulated out of existence (or pigeonholed into very specific niche use cases). The election confirms this.

AI was a mistake.

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "Valve "played capitalism so well they broke it" and now Steam can't be replaced"

VCFundedGenYer — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:59:57 +0000

Steam is not a monopoly.

Other competitors have made attempts, but they were so poor quality and terribly made, it was no wonder they bowed out.

Want to complete? Compete.

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "Anthropic's growth just flattened"

VCFundedGenYer — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:57:50 +0000

It's like people saying Bitcoin will become a universal currency adopted by all.

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "uBlock Origin filter to block autoplay videos in TechCrunch"

VCFundedGenYer — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:55:42 +0000

This is unnecessary. Use the built in browser autoplay block.

And if that doesn't work, use reader view (as you always should)

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge"

VCFundedGenYer — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:41:10 +0000

The company is cooked due to the CEO being a complete a-hole. AI or not, his behavior is unacceptable for ANY organization. Behavior like that is to be severely punished.

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games"

VCFundedGenYer — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 17:59:38 +0000

> Who decides what gets to be reverse engineered and what doesn't?

Laws, ideally.

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models"

VCFundedGenYer — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 17:57:45 +0000

The panic and delusion is reaching a fever pitch with these thieves (AI companies). Typical paranoid criminal behavior.

New comment by VCFundedGenYer in "Is It EDT or EST?"

VCFundedGenYer — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 14:06:07 +0000

You do realize single purpose websites have existed for over 20 years, yes?

isitchristmas.com? something.com?