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New comment by deepfriedrice in "I am leaving the AI party after one drink"

deepfriedrice — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:29:43 +0000

The automatic transmission gives us more dexterity for... what exactly? Fiddling with the dash, reaching for something in the back seat, texting? The best case human has much more control but the average case seems worse off.

New comment by deepfriedrice in "AI coding is gambling"

deepfriedrice — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:23:05 +0000

In poker some people are gambling. Some may be self-ware, but many aren't and misunderstand why they win or lose. Poker inconsistently and unreliably rewards gambling, much like vibe-coding.

New comment by deepfriedrice in "AI coding is gambling"

deepfriedrice — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:40:07 +0000

It's the perfect metaphor? Playing correctly/optimally is +EV. But nobody starts there, and many people don't ever get there.

The main difference is that you're exploiting your own weaknesses, rather than others'. Limitations in typing speed, information gathering, pattern recognition.

New comment by deepfriedrice in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

deepfriedrice — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:14:10 +0000

same. hopefully it doesn't change frequently

New comment by deepfriedrice in "LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio""

deepfriedrice — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:04:10 +0000

I did the same with Select. No picture and the API doesn't make sense. The options are specified twice.

https://www.chainlift.io/components/select

New comment by deepfriedrice in "Sandboxels"

deepfriedrice — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:09:39 +0000

Was not expecting it to be a single index.html. Pretty cool:

https://github.com/R74nCom/sandboxels/blob/main/index.html

New comment by deepfriedrice in "IsoCoaster – Theme Park Builder"

deepfriedrice — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:09:47 +0000

The code is brutal https://github.com/amilich/isometric-city/blob/main/src/comp...

New comment by deepfriedrice in "Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)"

deepfriedrice — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:55:54 +0000

Yeah this entire thread has a weird vibe. OP is clearly a competent engineer to have wrangled LLMs into building this (whether a 5 day old vibe code lib can survive this initial virality will be interesting to see), but seeing so much engagement with prototypical vacant LLM output is eerie

New comment by deepfriedrice in "2025 was a disaster for Windows 11"

deepfriedrice — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:59:16 +0000

I can't help but think that Steam Machine/SteamOS/Linux gaming in general is severely bottlenecked by anti-cheat. Nearly all serious multiplayer games require Windows specific anti-cheat.

Maybe there's a critical mass of Linux users that will force AC support. Maybe new cheating paradigms (DMA) will obsolete local AC. I suppose one of those could happen in the next 10 years.

New comment by deepfriedrice in "Kurt Got Got"

deepfriedrice — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:37:11 +0000

I razz CEOs in jest, but my point is: This is an example of a good phishing attempt? ChatGPT could surely find and fix most of the red flags I called out. Perhaps the red flags ensure they don't phish more people than they can productively exploit.

New comment by deepfriedrice in "Kurt Got Got"

deepfriedrice — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:09:45 +0000

I don't know the gullibility of the average tech CEO but this doesn't strike me as a very convincing phishing attempt.

* "We've received reports about the latest content" - weird copy

* "which doesn't meet X Terms of Service" - bad grammar lol

* "Important:Simply ..." - no spacing lol

* "Simply removing the content from your page doesn't help your case" - weird tone

* "We've opened a support portal for you " - weird copy

There should so many red flags here if you're a native english speaker.

There are some UX red flags as well, but I admit those are much less noticeable.

* Weird and inconsistent font size/weight

* Massive border radius on the twitter card image (lol)

* Gap sizes are weird/small

* Weird CTA

New comment by deepfriedrice in "YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that will interrupt your tunes"

deepfriedrice — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:04:45 +0000

> We've been on the hunt for this AI host since opting into the test several hours ago, but the robot has yet to appear.

An entire article about a beta feature they haven’t even seen? I normally wouldn’t read Ars but I’m on flight with nothing else to do and still feel swindled

New comment by deepfriedrice in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

deepfriedrice — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:23:36 +0000

I went straight to HN for commentary because I know exactly what is happening on Reddit and for the first time can't bear to look.

New comment by deepfriedrice in "Making video games (without an engine) in 2025"

deepfriedrice — Tue, 20 May 2025 17:20:16 +0000

Oh wow - I wanted to build a game just like this not too long ago but never found the time. Wishlisted!

New comment by deepfriedrice in "DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower"

deepfriedrice — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 02:15:09 +0000

The "critique" is nuts. Surely AI generated. If I didn't trust the domain, I'd assume the author to be incredible for seriously referencing something like this.

Look at the critique [0] and then look at the code [1].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20250423135719/https://github.co...

[1] https://github.com/ricci/async-ip-rotator/blob/master/src/as...

New comment by deepfriedrice in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

deepfriedrice — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:51:36 +0000

"Where are the examples" is a straw man. Imagine the ways a political enemy might exploit limitless access to the attention of 140M Americans. The calculus seems to be that a false negative will be much more catastrophic than a false positive.

New comment by deepfriedrice in "Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions"

deepfriedrice — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:55:54 +0000

> Just trying to shoehorn alexa into as many domains as possible

It happened outside of Alexa too. Every team with a public facing product was directed (it seemed) to come up with some sort of Alexa integration. It was usually dreamed up and either a) never prioritized or b) half assed because nobody (devs, PMs, etc.) actually thought it made any sense.

New comment by deepfriedrice in "The Era of the Line Cook"

deepfriedrice — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 23:51:28 +0000

I just check the feature requests for the iOS client I’m using and this has been requested [1] …three years ago.

[1] https://github.com/dangwu/Octal/issues/228

New comment by deepfriedrice in "The Era of the Line Cook"

deepfriedrice — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:55:02 +0000

Someone should honestly script this. Assuming this is not already that

New comment by deepfriedrice in "Brave launches Search Ads in key markets after successful test phase"

deepfriedrice — Fri, 31 May 2024 14:58:41 +0000

Brave search has been so terrible for me. I’ve very quickly been conditioned to append “!g” to all omnibar searches, even in non-brave browsers! (This tells brave to use Google)