Hacker News: aspectmin

New comment by aspectmin in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

aspectmin — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:14:59 +0000

Sigh. A good user experience for the web is just out the door isn't it? Max enshittification. Makes me so sad - it could be so much better.

New comment by aspectmin in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

aspectmin — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:03:18 +0000

Wow. The list of names of people who've left recently - a who's who, but also quite damning.

Think it's time for Google to reboot itself.

New comment by aspectmin in "White House delays US voting-machine vulnerability report"

aspectmin — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 06:30:29 +0000

Votehere / Dategrity was basically this (for mail in ballots). We worked hard on these problems.

New comment by aspectmin in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic support to respond"

aspectmin — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:23:26 +0000

Thinking it might be time to push for some laws to mandate companies have better systems to handle and address concerns that impact customers businesses and livelihoods.

This inability to reach and/or get things resolved through customer support channels seems endemic, and probably generally part of the enshittification trend as a whole.

New comment by aspectmin in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

aspectmin — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:55:34 +0000

Really - each country needs its own sovereign AI infrastructure and models. Sigh.

New comment by aspectmin in "Native Instruments enters into insolvency proceedings"

aspectmin — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:11:20 +0000

Not only do we need right to repair legislation across North America (and the world), but we also need right to continue using - as in - they fold, the code (e.g. licensing server) becomes open source, or something similar, so people can continue to use these products.

New comment by aspectmin in "Internet in a Box"

aspectmin — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 01:19:02 +0000

A mirror of Khan Academy would be great as well.

New comment by aspectmin in "Internet in a Box"

aspectmin — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 01:17:43 +0000

I’d love some detail on your setup. Which NAS, which drives? Key data sets? (Would love to build one myself)

New comment by aspectmin in "Internet in a Box"

aspectmin — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 01:16:35 +0000

Such a cool idea.

In addition to Wikipedia, I’d love to see a mirror of all the health (NIH) and similar data

- key imagery, for example the human body

- (wishful) chatGPT 4o

New comment by aspectmin in "All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)"

aspectmin — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 22:44:00 +0000

An interesting exercise is to do this exact same calculation with the atmosphere.

New comment by aspectmin in "ICQ will stop working from June 26"

aspectmin — Fri, 24 May 2024 23:14:11 +0000

Oh wow... I still remember my old ICQ number (very low 100Ks). Basically lived on it for many years.

New comment by aspectmin in "Writing a Unix clone in about a month"

aspectmin — Fri, 24 May 2024 23:04:19 +0000

Not positive, but pretty sure that this, and the Unix Network book were golden for us in the 90s when we were writing MUDs. Explained so much about Socket communications (bind/listen/accept,...) Been a long time since I looked at that stuff, but those were fun times.

New comment by aspectmin in "Reasons not to take Lumina's anticavity probiotic"

aspectmin — Wed, 15 May 2024 17:26:39 +0000

>Whenever this topic comes up on HN it strikes me as bizarre that anyone thinks they can genetically modify a bacteria, release it into the wild - and that it'll stay genetically modified?

Hubris?

I'm all for progress and innovation. We need to couch such progress through the lens of thinking through the potential impacts of such progress though.

New comment by aspectmin in "Bollards: Why and What"

aspectmin — Sun, 05 May 2024 21:26:48 +0000

I’m curious. Do you have data to back this up?

New comment by aspectmin in "Our biggest ever river catch?"

aspectmin — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 03:03:40 +0000

I LOVE this company. We need more of them. Innovative, Solving world problems. Aware of their impact.

I am always encouraging people to donate. These are the kinds of projects that might save us.

I wish YC, and it's kin, would fund companies like this.

New comment by aspectmin in "Infinite Craft"

aspectmin — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 22:32:15 +0000

Rofl - Rainforest + Dragon == Amazon (like an Amazon box)

New comment by aspectmin in "Ask HN: How can I back up an old vBulletin forum without admin access?"

aspectmin — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 06:24:36 +0000

Where was the vBulletin board hosted, and do you have any kind of shell access to the server?

New comment by aspectmin in "Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters?"

aspectmin — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 07:19:28 +0000

A few thoughts.

1 - do it. Absolutely do it.

2 - I love being around first time entrepreneurs- they don’t know about the bumps ahead in the journey so they just plough through. This is a great thing. Once you’ve ploughed through, you learn about all of this and it either causes you to be too afraid to do another, or to try to warn everyone else off by describing how impossible it is (doesn’t work and doesn’t help), or you get the bug and keep building more and more. 3) You’ve identified what seems like an awesome opportunity. Go chase it. Don’t spend too much time talking. Endless talk is the death of entrepreneurial endeavors. Do more talk less. Sounds like a super fun opportunity during which you’ll learn so much along the way.

4) Two entrepreneur credos:

A) when you see an opportunity the door is already closing. Get moving. Did I mention more talk less do?

B) the universe is interesting. The moment you start on an endeavor, the people you need to be successful just come out of the woodwork. It’s like you become attuned to the universe. Just gotta pay attention. Sorry - sounds preachy, but I’ve found it to be true over and over again. It’s like they find you through the cosmos.

Don’t listen to the naysayers. Those who say it can’t be done should stand aside for those who are doing it.

Welcome to the entrepreneurial journey. Pretty much the most fun you can have in business.

All the best.

New comment by aspectmin in "Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant"

aspectmin — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 06:53:22 +0000

It’s interesting. I had not heard the latest. Their initial videos looked promising.

I ordered a rabbit r1. I can see it’s missing some key functionality (Bluetooth for headphones so everyone doesn’t have to hear?) But… I think it’s an example of a first, promising, step to the era of real voice assistants/agents.

New comment by aspectmin in "Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant"

aspectmin — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:36:29 +0000

I would counter that voice assistants are not a failed experiment. I would suggest that Amazon and Google’s execution of said experiments have failed.

I am extremely excited about the potential of projects like the Rabbit R1 and Humane.