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New comment by dawnerd in "The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn't coming anytime soon"

dawnerd — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:33:54 +0000

Same with design and art direction. I think we might see a temp slowdown in the workforce but companies will want to stand out again after realizing the slop machines spit out fairly cookie cutter designs.

New comment by dawnerd in "Claude Opus 5"

dawnerd — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:00:31 +0000

They might try that for a bit but then come crawling to an agency because their setup turned to slop. We have some clients like that already. Going to be a pretty big market.

New comment by dawnerd in "Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account"

dawnerd — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:55:57 +0000

I have a burner account just for YouTube. If they want to ban me I’ll just get the content without paying for premium.

New comment by dawnerd in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

dawnerd — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:04:54 +0000

That seems like it shouldn't be even allowed.

New comment by dawnerd in "Back to Kagi"

dawnerd — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 01:00:24 +0000

They started marking a lot of my reports as not slop when it’s very obviously ai garbage. Stopslop is nice in theory if they actually handle reports correctly. It’s exhausting to spend time trying to help clean up their results only to be told no.

New comment by dawnerd in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

dawnerd — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:53:19 +0000

I’ve never had a limited card get rejected. Granted I use ones from privacy.com. That’s also what I have hooked up to my aws / amazon.

New comment by dawnerd in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

dawnerd — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:51:30 +0000

That’s why you always use a spend limited card with variable cost providers.

New comment by dawnerd in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"

dawnerd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:24:18 +0000

That’s what I’ve heard from my dev team too. They’re using it to give themselves free time while still being on the clock, not to produce more output for the company. Roughly thinking about hours spent on projects I think have gone up per task, the opposite that should be happening.

New comment by dawnerd in "Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources"

dawnerd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:52:29 +0000

PP has worked amazingly well for me over the years, second to Amex. It's weird they wouldn't side with you, 3 months is well within their 180 day period.

New comment by dawnerd in "We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes"

dawnerd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:17:33 +0000

Well, they're using Render which you'd think they'd be able to handle HN traffic. Not a good look for Render as a service, especially when their first item under product is autoscaling.

New comment by dawnerd in "Show HN: Hackney – Compare Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi Prices"

dawnerd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:33:23 +0000

Except it does exist:

https://fareestimate.com/ https://ride.guru/ https://uphail.com/ https://payfair.cash/

Also cool lil project in this quick google https://toddwschneider.com/dashboards/nyc-taxi-uber-lyft-far...

New comment by dawnerd in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

dawnerd — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:14:54 +0000

I think that is really reasonable. I’ve always felt weird with flagging too because there’s no reason attached. Even if it’s not displayed in the UI, it would be nice to have something in the html if a link gets enough flags for ai. Would let people css filter them out.

New comment by dawnerd in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

dawnerd — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:21:38 +0000

Mastodon, but the hard part is discovery for sure.

New comment by dawnerd in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

dawnerd — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:52:35 +0000

Considering YC invests in AI I doubt you’ll get anything of the sort. Too many people here also think you just have to give in and accept (abuser mentality IMO).

New comment by dawnerd in "Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper"

dawnerd — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:35:35 +0000

Makes you wonder if any of stats these articles push are even real.

New comment by dawnerd in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

dawnerd — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:54:36 +0000

Did I say that? I’m being realistic and not drinking the Elon koolaid. I think starlink is great and it’s hugely improved life for a lot of people and made remote work a lot nicer.

New comment by dawnerd in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

dawnerd — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:38:51 +0000

There’s some folks here that seem to think otherwise

New comment by dawnerd in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

dawnerd — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:37:49 +0000

You’re still limited to the transmission and receive capabilities of mobile devices which already struggle with current cell networks. I’m Not arguing it won’t be nice for people truly remote, but people keep acting like this will replace cell towers, which it won’t.

New comment by dawnerd in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

dawnerd — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:31:54 +0000

You can already try it with T-Mobile and it’s pretty limited. Great if you need sms and there’s no other towers around. Still requires line of sight.

New comment by dawnerd in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

dawnerd — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:09:46 +0000

* only when you’re outdoors with good line of sight and only in geographic areas they allow.