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New comment by deepfriedbits in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

deepfriedbits — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:29:00 +0000

Same. There's a lot out there to get us down, but most people are fundamentally good at the end of the day, regardless of culture or borders.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "The Weather Channel – RetroCast"

deepfriedbits — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:21:37 +0000

I agree. It's really cool. I wonder if this was written with AI assistance. Seems like the perfect kind of fun project that a dev team would really be able to crank out pretty quickly whereas five years ago, there might not have been time or budget for something like this.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

deepfriedbits — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:31:59 +0000

Kind of an IRL heatmap.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"

deepfriedbits — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:00:08 +0000

Sindre makes high quality apps. Big fan of what he's put out.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Personal Computer by Perplexity"

deepfriedbits — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:15:15 +0000

You don't think there's cost/labor savings in making agents and workflows easier to use? I don't think your average back office employee is going to be setting up OpenClaw.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Personal Computer by Perplexity"

deepfriedbits — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:59:06 +0000

I'm perpetually cautious about wild tech claims myself, but if you watch the launch video, there are examples of how they could claim labor/cost savings.

For example, one task takes a document with data, charts, and metrics, and Perplexity Computer was tasked with creating a 10-page slide deck for a presentation. Prior to AI, that took human capital and labor costs.

I can't say whether the $1.6M in labor costs is legit or not, but these tools are not just clicking links in 2026.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

deepfriedbits — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:14:39 +0000

"There are decades where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen."

New comment by deepfriedbits in "How will OpenAI compete?"

deepfriedbits — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:30:54 +0000

Could they have even trained the models 25 years ago? Wikipedia was nothing close to what it is today and I know folks here like to mourn the fall of the open web, but it's still orders of magnitude larger today than it was in 2001. YouTube, so many information stores that simply didn't exist then.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Acme Weather"

deepfriedbits — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:14:29 +0000

I'm not sure if the price rose later, but I remember getting Dark Sky for a $3.99 one-time payment. Much more palatable than $25/year imo.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "The Codex App"

deepfriedbits — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:39:23 +0000

I can't speak to the typos, but launching first for MacOS not something new for OpenAI. They did the same with their dedicated desktop client.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "The Codex App"

deepfriedbits — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:33:13 +0000

Same. And indeed, it's here. The genie is not going back into the bottle, so we have to learn how to live in this new world.

Eric Schmidt has spoken a lot recently about how it's one of the biggest advances in human history and it's hard to disagree with him, even if some aspects make me anxious.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

deepfriedbits — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:44:03 +0000

I appreciate your honest testimonial. It's so rare these days to read a sentence like, "No credit to me at all" haha

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?"

deepfriedbits — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:26:55 +0000

Appreciate everyone adding links to their suggestions!

New comment by deepfriedbits in "FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home"

deepfriedbits — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:40:39 +0000

Kind of a key point in that – the whole purchasing stolen information thing.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "I'm a developer for a major food delivery app"

deepfriedbits — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 05:55:54 +0000

Yeah that was either a tactical misstep, or a smart move if they fabricated the date or the fact that they put in in their two weeks.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Ask HN: What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great?"

deepfriedbits — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 01:34:58 +0000

Same. Whether an Aeron or another high quality chair, it's hard to not find value in something we use for huge chunks of our days.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "US destroying its reputation as a scientific leader – European science diplomat"

deepfriedbits — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:43:14 +0000

What an embarrassing era for America.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions"

deepfriedbits — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 05:07:27 +0000

Correct. The article is about Chrome and MS Edge browser extensions.

New comment by deepfriedbits in "AI note-taking startup Fireflies was really two guys typing notes by hand"

deepfriedbits — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 04:21:20 +0000

Not sure if this is what PG had in mind, but yes, the famous "do things that don't scale at first" advice to startups

New comment by deepfriedbits in "Laptops with Stickers"

deepfriedbits — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:58:12 +0000

I'm continually amazed at how grown adults haven't come to the realization that different people enjoy different things.