Hacker News: dax_

New comment by dax_ in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

dax_ — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:53:11 +0000

I still use "RedReader" on mobile, this works. If that client would be gone, I'd also say goodbye to Reddit.

New comment by dax_ in "Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine"

dax_ — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:29:36 +0000

Gosh, It's so hard to be excited about any software project nowadays, because I cannot know how much effort was actually put into it. For all I know the author merely wrote a few prompts and paid Anthropic for the tokens. Good job I guess?

New comment by dax_ in "Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference"

dax_ — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:32:37 +0000

This is just prompting an LLM and just dumping it on the site (which is clearly what is happening here, all the articles show the same signs of AI output, no human writing, no style, as far as I can tell).

If this is the level of care that goes into news articles, then we're doomed. What will ultimately happen is that AI summarizes AI articles, which got summarized from another AI article, which got summarized from another AI article, .. and after enough rewriting all facts will be gone from articles. I don't care to read this slop, and I'm shocked people are so readily accepting this new state of affairs.

New comment by dax_ in "Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference"

dax_ — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:06:34 +0000

That bugged me too, so I started looking at other articles - they all look AI generated to me. Whole website should be banned.

New comment by dax_ in "Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted"

dax_ — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:01:49 +0000

Normally I would agree, but I've seen this happen too often. Common sense be damned, just make the number look good.

New comment by dax_ in "I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars"

dax_ — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:43:26 +0000

My experience is exactly the opposite (company with more than 10k employees). Getting anything done in Azure takes me 10x as long, as all of Azure is managed by one team, and everything requires approvals, lots of bureaucracy. Also, as it turns out, it is extremely expensive. Per our guidelines everything needs to be isolated within company intranet (unless really required to be external), which often means we need premium tier services in Azure. These are really, really pricey sometimes.

On the other hand, if I request a virtual server, it takes less than a week, and I can work with it much more freely.

New comment by dax_ in "America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom"

dax_ — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 07:37:41 +0000

It's just as possible that they need to invest more and more for negligible improvements to model performance. These companies are burning through money at an astonishing rate.

And as the internet deteriorates due to AI slop, finding good training material will become increasingly difficult. It's already happening that incorrect AI generated information is being cited as source for new AI answers.

New comment by dax_ in "Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions"

dax_ — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:21:22 +0000

It's just one of those sites that focuses on one thing, and does that extremely well, without trying to extract as much money from its users as possible. Rare thing nowadays.

New comment by dax_ in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

dax_ — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:20:22 +0000

With Windows 10 going out of support soon, I suspect there will be an increase in Linux adoption. After all, why throw out perfectly good hardware because of an arbitrary rule that Microsoft made? For me, I know that I'll install Linux for some relatives.

New comment by dax_ in "Le Chat: Custom MCP Connectors, Memories"

dax_ — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:16:07 +0000

GDPR doesn't stop personal data being stored. It handles whom it can be shared with, when it has to be deleted, and only collect as much data as required. Also gives transparency to the users about their data use.

And if I were to give over personal information to an AI company, then absolutely I'll prefer a company who actually complies with GDPR.

New comment by dax_ in "Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives"

dax_ — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:26:38 +0000

Well if it continues like this, that's what will happen. And I dread that future.

Noone will care to share anything for free anymore, because it's AI companies profiting off their hard work. And no way to prevent that from happening, because these crawlers don't identify themselves.

New comment by dax_ in "HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News"

dax_ — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:12:07 +0000

I'm 99% sure I already saw a product launch on HN for precisely this idea.

New comment by dax_ in "Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]"

dax_ — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:45:46 +0000

Why would we embrace that even more? In Software Development we try to keep things deterministic as much as possible. The more variables we're introducing into our software, the more complicated it becomes.

The whole notion of adding LLM prompts as a replacement for code just seems utterly insane to me. It would be a massive waste of resources as we're reprompting AI a lot more frequently than we need to. Also must be fun to debug, as it may or may not work correctly depending on how the LLM model is feeling at that moment. Compilation should always be deterministic, given the same environment.

New comment by dax_ in "Helion: A modern fast paced Doom FPS engine in C#"

dax_ — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:13:57 +0000

Microsoft has really been putting a lot of focus on improving it with each release. I love reading through the blog articles for each major release, that outline all the performance improvements that were done: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...

New comment by dax_ in "Ditching Obsidian and building my own"

dax_ — Mon, 19 May 2025 10:32:28 +0000

Can't you do the same with Obsidian too? It's also just Markdown, and I believe there's even a plugin to perform Git commands within Obsidian. The main issue you can run into, is when you overly rely on markup syntax that only works in Obsidian.

New comment by dax_ in "BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)"

dax_ — Fri, 16 May 2025 07:24:23 +0000

Ah yes, that'll solve all problems (https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/).

Cynicism aside, I'd rather not receive compensation in a currency that's mainly used for speculation. And to exchange it back into a "meaningful" currency somewhat securely requires me to go through an exchange, which is usually again a company that can make up their own policies? Seems to me this is just making it more complicated and more resource intensive.

New comment by dax_ in "I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease"

dax_ — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:00:26 +0000

I'm glad it worked out for your friend, but I can't help feeling extremely sad about this. What I mean is, why is the healthcare system so broken in the first place, that you need to take charge of your own diagnosis and treatment? AI in this case is a bandaid solution, improving something you shouldn't have to do all.

New comment by dax_ in "Kagi – Introducing Fair Pricing"

dax_ — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:09:55 +0000

Uhm.. Kagi has plenty of AI features. :) To be fair, you can turn them off if you wish.

New comment by dax_ in "Tesla sales in Germany dropped 41% in 2024"

dax_ — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:49:28 +0000

Not really, but, like a lot of people buying EVs, I care about what impact my lifestyle has on the environment and society in general. And I can't (In good conscience) support that company anymore.

New comment by dax_ in "Tesla sales in Germany dropped 41% in 2024"

dax_ — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 11:07:16 +0000

As someone who owns a Model 3, I hate how Musk constantly comes up when talking about the car (and never in a positive light). Frankly I find the brand so damaged now because of his behavior, that this will be my last Tesla. I don't want to be pushed into an "right wing" category simply because of a purchase decision I made 5 years ago.

Sure there are other factors, such as more competition, and overall a slowdown of adoption of EV cars, but I have am fairly certain that Musk is one of the big factors of this sales drop. Price/value wise I still find Teslas incredibly attractive. This would be an interesting topic for a big survey if my opinion is in any way representative.