Hacker News: dbliss

New comment by dbliss in "Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers"

dbliss — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 23:56:38 +0000

Using gen ai so I have been able to make bite size mini games for my son to learn letters and numbers. Today he said skeletons are just pretend given we’ve been walking around looking at Halloween decorations. So I’ve had to explain that skeletons are real and they’re inside all of us. So in these mini games, now I’ve added a 3-D rendering of the body for kids to show the skeleton and muscles and what a human body looks like. And I was able to walk them through it and explain it to him and he’s been very excited about the fact that now there’s this he understands there’s a skeleton inside of him. All that is to say, I think curated parent led experiences with technology are still a great way to teach, and we can’t just hand them an iPad and say here’s some shows to calm you down

New comment by dbliss in "hister"

dbliss — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:10:59 +0000

Does it work accross multiple computers? Ideally the service runs on a linux box on my tailnet, and my windows and mac systems share the same server.

Edit: I RTFD - and it seems yes.

New comment by dbliss in "Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended"

dbliss — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:58:27 +0000

I've built a personal meta-harness on top of agy, cc, codex, kiro-cli, ollama that I use to schedule jobs, run oneshot tasks, etc. which provides a general API for my other personal apps that need to do some inference. For example, I built a personal trip app for an upcoming family vacation that uses the inference API to do things like research locations and plan routes, it basically just calls the various cli harness underneath, so it would look like i'm using them directly with their respective model.

I wonder if that would get my google account banned? If so i'm definitely taking agy out of the provider options..

New comment by dbliss in "Incident CVE-2026-LGTM"

dbliss — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:49:25 +0000

Great satire. The comedy of errors along the way made me realize that this could have happened also with humans instead of bots. But now it’s faster.

New comment by dbliss in "Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial"

dbliss — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:38:42 +0000

I always wondered if evolution through natural selection has essentially halted for humans for the most part. My thinking is even the previously most likely to die before child bearing has been reversed by modern society. Given that it happens at such a long time scale and modern humans and technology hasn't be around that long in the grand scheme of things it's probably not true, but I always found it interesting...

New comment by dbliss in "Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option"

dbliss — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:40:26 +0000

You are a national treasure.

New comment by dbliss in "Ask HN: As Billionaires Go, What Do You Think About Mark Cuban?"

dbliss — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:07:01 +0000

Nice Try Mark Cuban.

New comment by dbliss in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

dbliss — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:14:46 +0000

"So, we’re asking each s-team organization to increase the ratio of individual contributors to managers by at least 15% by the end of Q1 2025.." .. manager layoffs coming too.

New comment by dbliss in "Ask HN: Where/How can I get AWS Portfolio credits of like $5k+?"

dbliss — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 13:58:21 +0000

I can't vouch for this, and it seems like you have to sign up (and pay) but you could try https://www.joinsecret.com/aws-activate

New comment by dbliss in "Container shipping has cratered, as ship owners try to avoid unprofitable trips"

dbliss — Wed, 24 May 2023 15:32:14 +0000

If nothing is apolitical (or everything is political) what's the point of the word?

New comment by dbliss in "Amazon confirms corporate staff cuts that could hit 10k employees"

dbliss — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 17:36:32 +0000

and advertising

New comment by dbliss in "Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)"

dbliss — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 02:38:28 +0000

Galactica: What happens when an unstoppable object hits an unmovable wall?

Answer: The object stops and the wall moves.

New comment by dbliss in "DoorDash data breach leaves important customer details exposed"

dbliss — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 01:10:52 +0000

In the faq and in a few places on their page - https://doordash.news/get-the-facts/how-were-responding-to-a... - They mention users “where required”, anyone know what that means? Did they only tell users in jurisdictions that require informing them?

New comment by dbliss in "Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act"

dbliss — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:44:48 +0000

Would you not agree that there are people behind the economic damage? Just calling it hurting corporations dehumanizes the automotive works that have been put out of work due to the temporary plant closures that the blockade has caused.

New comment by dbliss in "AWS Console Unavailable"

dbliss — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 15:24:39 +0000

Me as well.

New comment by dbliss in "UN votes to remove cannabis from strictest drug category"

dbliss — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 21:48:31 +0000

Yes, society has not crumbled here in Canada.

New comment by dbliss in "What is expected of a engineering manager?"

dbliss — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:51:30 +0000

+1 - I had a discussion with one of my directs today as they were considering becoming an SDM. There are so many days as a manager where every moment of my time is filled with meetings and admin tasks and at the end of the day you feel like to accomplished nothing. Where as with coding you can feel like you built something and have something to show for your hours of time. I certainly miss being an IC, more and more each day..

New comment by dbliss in "Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers"

dbliss — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:17:54 +0000

So there's no nuance to anything people do, there are only good or evil people? That's quite an extreme view.

New comment by dbliss in "Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned for full refund"

dbliss — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 13:57:18 +0000

I can't speak for all the companies listed, but I know we've spent a lot of SDE time ensuring we're compliant with GDPR and various privacy laws. Building new systems and changing existing systems (on the scale of dozens, probably 100+, of individual teams). It's more likely that it's hard to quickly change the direction of large ships. I've certainly seen my leadership (and engineers) take things like GDPR compliance extremely seriously, to the point that I've seen it as a cultural shift over the last couple of years.

New comment by dbliss in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)"

dbliss — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 17:37:20 +0000

We are also looking for an Applied Science Manager for the same org in Toronto, Canada - https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1187978/applied-science-mana...