Hacker News: dbtc

New comment by dbtc in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

dbtc — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:22:31 +0000

Yeah this is bad news. A $1b+ campaign budget could pull some strings.

New comment by dbtc in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

dbtc — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:20:36 +0000

I think the chatgpt backend basically includes indexed web like Google, or any other search engine.

Could Google be actively trying skip generated-looking sites/content?

New comment by dbtc in "Creating West Coast Buddhism (2024)"

dbtc — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:03:15 +0000

If you rephrase this as succinctly as you can you'll end up quoting the Dao de Jing.

New comment by dbtc in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

dbtc — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:22:22 +0000

US post colonial empire method was to create markets overseas, China was watching and learning!

New comment by dbtc in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

dbtc — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:42:36 +0000

I use vim a lot but not on the shell

A mistake 3 words earlier?

meta-bbbd (not as elegant, I admit)

delete the whole thing?

ctrl-ak (this is even quicker than vim, especially if capslock is mapped to ctrl)

the control-based emacs movements work system-wide on macos btw. I am using ctrl-p and ctrl-n to go up and down lines, ctrl-a and ctrl-e to go to beginning and end of lines while writing this comment in by browser (which has vimium extension)

Sometimes I wish vim just had full emacs bindings while in insert mode. But I don't like to mess with defaults too much.

I keep thinking I should give vim readline a try though, so maybe today. Thanks for the comment.

New comment by dbtc in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

dbtc — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:15:13 +0000

Maybe not considered a solution, but: print.

New comment by dbtc in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

dbtc — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:12:25 +0000

Nah, in my opinion the original title is art. That line is a whopper though.

New comment by dbtc in "The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist"

dbtc — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:26:25 +0000

> more than could ever be read

by a human...

New comment by dbtc in "I resigned from OpenAI"

dbtc — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:39:14 +0000

I'm worried that China will build said killing machines only because they see that we are and feel the need to be prepared.

New comment by dbtc in "Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency"

dbtc — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:50:27 +0000

All the more reason for them to start finding alternatives ASAP, at least as a backup. Those with knowledge and skill should help them.

New comment by dbtc in "Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company"

dbtc — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 05:10:37 +0000

This will not augment memory the way glasses do for sight, this will replace memory the way a wheelchair replaces legs.

New comment by dbtc in "OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions"

dbtc — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:24:28 +0000

Thinking about the power and reach of political ads served by social media companies over the past 10 years, this is gonna be a whole nother bucket of worms.

New comment by dbtc in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

dbtc — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:16:47 +0000

That's interesting and plausible.

It also contributes to obsolescing older hardware.

New comment by dbtc in "Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers"

dbtc — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 02:49:24 +0000

Also likely, some version of "get dat money"

New comment by dbtc in "LLMs Are Not Fun"

dbtc — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:46:18 +0000

When I do dishes by hand I think all kinds of interesting thoughts.

Anyway, we've had machines that do our dishes and laundry for a long while now.

New comment by dbtc in "Two kinds of vibe coding"

dbtc — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:25:43 +0000

In that case, "blind" would be more accurate.

New comment by dbtc in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

dbtc — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 20:06:26 +0000

If you sell it directly to another human, or even use something like ebay, you'll get more and they'll pay less.

New comment by dbtc in "Show HN: Kraa – Writing App for Everything"

dbtc — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:09:58 +0000

> without the pain of extended hours of pressing hard with a pen or pencil.

Excuse me, do you have a minute to talk about fountain pens?

I recommend a Lamy Safari or Pilot Kakuno to start. If the nib is good, no pressure at all is required to write. You have to retrain to relax your hand and arm if you're used to ballpoints and graphite. High quality paper is not required but it can make a big difference too.

As far as digital, .txt will always have a special place in my hard drive. As long as a tool has a way to export into plaintext, I am not opposed to using it.

New comment by dbtc in "The lost cause of the Lisp machines"

dbtc — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:18:35 +0000

Wouldn't the whole system be the product then? There's tradeoffs, but that's just integration.

New comment by dbtc in "Short Little Difficult Books"

dbtc — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:14:52 +0000

Check out the spellings in the original folios though: https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeare-in-print/first-fo...

Our school books have all had some (very helpful) translation work applied to the original text.