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New comment by dabbz in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

dabbz — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:52:42 +0000

I feel like the models have no moat paradigm died when a single model expanded past the memory of single GPU slices. The moat is hosting the model. Even paying a server host to run a rack of GPUs has immense upstart cost, and then you're still struggling to compete on the add-ons of the things on top of the model (prompts, validation loops, etc). You can only throw so much money at a problem.

New comment by dabbz in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

dabbz — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:35:40 +0000

Literally this. Every response initially was "we don't see that and we let it sit for weeks". Now there's just no response from devs. I was unable to browse past more than 1 or 2 pages before memory ballooned to 30gb.

New comment by dabbz in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

dabbz — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:13:40 +0000

Software has been riding on the backs of the insane hardware growth curves for the last 20 years. I miss the days of reading about how software engineers had to delete standard C libraries in build time to shave extra memory so they can stream more of the level in.

I also fully acknowledge that change starts with me, unfortunately those changes don't pay the bills.

New comment by dabbz in "The rise and fall of snake oil"

dabbz — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:03:54 +0000

Most of that site reads as a "trust us, sound makes you heal!" I don't see a single thing there that tries to explain the correlation between bumping your brain with sound and "restoration". It doesn't explain what it restores, why it works better than nothing.

Honestly this website doesn't seem to even be trying to sell anything. "Help your sleep" how? "doesn't make you sleep longer" but what does it do instead? Do I feel more restored when I wake up even with a shorter sleep time? It's not even trying to sell me on a specific outcome that I John Everyman is facing.

Snake oil things are typically very light on details and this site is also light on details. Maybe it's a victim of form over function? The site's design looks nice but has very low information density.

New comment by dabbz in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

dabbz — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:34:33 +0000

I would really like to see a renaissance of in-person activities. I think a big hurdle to this though is the lack of a 3rd place for communities to exist. Parks are nice in the summer but less ideal in the winter (and not available in all neighborhoods). Town squares are also more hostile to "loiterers" (no data to back this just feelingss).

Overall I think if we want to see a resurgence of IRL, we need the social support of our governing bodies which imo is a large hill to climb.

New comment by dabbz in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

dabbz — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:58:46 +0000

It's a very frequently used structure by LLMs especially ones writing for LinkedIn.

New comment by dabbz in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

dabbz — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:54:19 +0000

Oh are compilers going away? Or personal computers for that matter?

If the barrier to button-pressed companies goes that high up, the cost to run/consume the product also goes up. Making hand-rolled products cheaper.

Slower paced to roll out things? Sure.

That's the precarious balance these LLMs providers have to make. They can't just move on without the people feeding it data and value. The machine is not perpetual.

New comment by dabbz in "Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)"

dabbz — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:00:35 +0000

I believe the Shared Payment Token is interchangeable with a payment method id that you attach to a customer object, but that link has very sparse information about how things actually work end to end and what objects mean what.

New comment by dabbz in "Have a fucking website"

dabbz — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:28:19 +0000

Nobody cares until the automated trust and safety bot bans an account for no apparent reason and you can't contact a human for help. Before that happens though, how do you get someone to care? I suppose it's risk management at that point. "What are the odds that I'll get inconvenienced by Instagram before the ROI on establishing on their platform pays out"

New comment by dabbz in "Node.js needs a virtual file system"

dabbz — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:47:47 +0000

I mean that's a fair distinction. There's definitely some overlap depending on needs though.

New comment by dabbz in "Node.js needs a virtual file system"

dabbz — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:27:26 +0000

Another thread about Edge.js has some similar concepts that might be applicable? They're not 1:1 the same but it involves Sandboxing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47417398

New comment by dabbz in "Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter"

dabbz — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:22:17 +0000

They have Their Link.com product which integrates pretty seamlessly. It just doesn't store balances or anything akin to PayPal, Venmo, Cashapp, Apple Pay/Cash, etc.

New comment by dabbz in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

dabbz — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:17:03 +0000

The ability to auto-fill the text/email verification codes is a huge one.

New comment by dabbz in "Railway (PaaS) global outage"

dabbz — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:29:36 +0000

+1 for dokploy, it's very flexible and allows me to setup my sites how I need. Especially as it concerns to the way I setup a static landing page, then /app goes to the react app. And /auth goes to a separate auth service, etc.

New comment by dabbz in "Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds"

dabbz — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:46:35 +0000

Whatever the speed of light is I would imagine

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

dabbz — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:27:01 +0000

We gave it advanced pattern recognition.

New comment by dabbz in "Show HN: Rails UI"

dabbz — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 07:12:02 +0000

oh yea I absolutely understand the niche this Rails UI fits in. I was just drawing parallels to Tailwind UI. Rails is a more "opinionated" version.

New comment by dabbz in "Show HN: Rails UI"

dabbz — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:05:38 +0000

Felt more like a Tailwind UI (https://tailwindcss.com/plus) to me

New comment by dabbz in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

dabbz — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:58:30 +0000

I was more hoping to use the Tailwind UI components (or tailwind plus or whatever they're calling it now) with the LLM output. I don't think they offer downloadable components or whatever so the LLM would need a way of knowing which were available to use and be able to pull them in for reference. At least that's my assumption.

New comment by dabbz in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

dabbz — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:18:12 +0000

I was going to say before LLMs Tailwind UI helped me get moving much faster on front-end code. Now I wish there was some kind of context I can provide to use the Tailwind UI instead of hallucinating its own. Tailwind UI still looks better than the generic stuff LLMs generate.

(Open to any suggestions to feed existing ui components from Tailwind into my projects/llm).