<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: dabbz</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dabbz</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:26:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dabbz" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was going to interject that very sentiment. The upfront costs of running any model of value to the average consumer is so large to be basically non-existent. We need hardware to become commoditized and capable of handling LLMs at the scale necessary to enjoy these agentic workflows.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:44:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293506</link><dc:creator>dabbz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293506</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hey everyone! I found the COBOL developer!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:36:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275093</link><dc:creator>dabbz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your analogy falls apart somewhere for me but I can't pinpoint the exact correction to make your analogy work for me. Either way I agree. If they don't like only being able to buy digital PS games via Sony's platform, go to one where they can.<p>That's not the fight I'd personally focus on. I'd personally focus on them revoking digital access after you've "purchased it". Then again, I don't have a game console and I don't "buy" digital media. I either rent via streaming subscription or own the physical.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:26:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250729</link><dc:creator>dabbz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250729</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Weird conclusion to draw from my statement. Feels intentionally hostile of an assessment about me, but I digress.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:43:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245148</link><dc:creator>dabbz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245148</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Machines don't pay my bills though. If the content was free to share widely, then yea, who cares how it's accessed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:28:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215193</link><dc:creator>dabbz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215193</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I see a lot of discourse about it being fast-to-deprecation. But I see it a different way personally.<p>Modern LLMs are trying to do more with less. Focus on doing the right thing the first time. Even if we squeeze dumb LLMs, the significantly faster speed means quicker iterations. So a bad decision doesn't cost the time and inference costs that it cost before. It theoretically changes the scale of errant token spend.<p>I compare it to the 1 thousand monkeys on a typewriter. In this case it's 1,000 monkeys with stale training data of everything ever written and the ability to search the web.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:28:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213643</link><dc:creator>dabbz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213643</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "The AI Billboards Are Killing SF"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Far better than the band 999mb, they don't do well in the gig economy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:22:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213566</link><dc:creator>dabbz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213566</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is my thought as well. Models have to be intentional about which tokens they burn because there's a real lag time. If you can just fork out 10 different reasoning sessions at once with no regard for token waste/lag, you can compensate a smaller model with just doing more at once with it. No idea if this is reasonably true though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:58:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204300</link><dc:creator>dabbz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204300</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My company moved to GH Actions 6 months ago even after I pushed back with a "Are you sure given their reliability issues of late?"<p>Now I'm stuck twiddling my thumbs with PR checks stuck/failing...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:19:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201081</link><dc:creator>dabbz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201081</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a PLIST entry possibly relevant to it in 
`~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.networkserviceproxy.plist`<p>I couldn't figure out how to get any changes to reflect but maybe it's a good pointer towards a solution?<p>EDIT: Reading into this, looks like they're very intentional about not allowing arbitrary enable/disable calls to it, likely to prevent a hostile entity from switching it off on unsuspecting users. The systems setting calls an XPC into a daemon that makes a web request, then validates the response from the API to update the PLIST structure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:40:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178637</link><dc:creator>dabbz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178637</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My least favorite ones are the ones that fit in the rails to the left and right of the content that scroll with you. You can't click anywhere without an accidental ad click. Using any device without ublock reminds me just how much better life is with it...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:23:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171973</link><dc:creator>dabbz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171973</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "Big Food vs. the People"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>True, we have way too many thematic versions of Monopoly. I'm still missing so many copies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:51:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125631</link><dc:creator>dabbz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125631</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "I'd not buy a LG monitor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Honestly I was more thinking about TVs than monitors but I often forget Dell makes good monitors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:52:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090409</link><dc:creator>dabbz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090409</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "I'd not buy a LG monitor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's getting really hard to find a solid, reputable brand of screen manufacturers that don't pull this kind of crap. I swore off Samsung screens after their popup ads in phones and TVs. LG was my next choice but this is deterring me even further.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:58:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49087600</link><dc:creator>dabbz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49087600</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49087600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So OP needs to rename their slideshow tool to Claris?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:41:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011457</link><dc:creator>dabbz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011457</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have been using Plex since 2014, paid for the lifetime pass back then. It is by-far the most used piece of software I've ever relied on (excluding any general purpose software like OS/Browser).<p>I have my family setup on Plex, my automations, my apps, my preferences, etc. I'm so comfortable in Plex that until they do something catastrophic to my experience, I can't find the motivation to train my mother to use another app.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:56:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994024</link><dc:creator>dabbz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994024</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This reminds me immensely of DARK Basic built by The Game Creators. It was how I got my start into programming back in the day.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:12:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952366</link><dc:creator>dabbz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've found personally it's better to use AI to build a deterministic script for calculations like that. (anything that manipulates data should be a script not an AI).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:53:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48949498</link><dc:creator>dabbz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48949498</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48949498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I suspect we'll see a hybrid before an all or nothing. Local models for computer control or delegating, online models for things that need strong reasoning, planning, and knowledge access. Again, I'd be more than happy to be wrong. I just see models growing faster than the hardware can.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:11:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861896</link><dc:creator>dabbz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861896</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dabbz in "Fable 5 is Back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree that would improve transparency but it'd also lock us and Anthropic into a situation where changing that would require new plans, prices, notifications, legal, etc. I think the fact that we don't see tokens shows just how subsidized the plan is. Which is mostly the point. They want us getting used to just using the product, not tracking tokens (for whatever behavior that builds later on).</p>
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