Hacker News: dilDDoS

New comment by dilDDoS in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

dilDDoS — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:33:32 +0000

Really weird that you're basically advocating people to not have principles if they don't align with "broader incentives". Also lol at you pulling the "some people have kids to feed" bullshit in a thread where we're all making way more money than most people.

New comment by dilDDoS in "An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop"

dilDDoS — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:48:26 +0000

> Nice copium. These things are going to get there fast.

Nice copium. I've been hearing how fast these things are going to get there for a few years now.

New comment by dilDDoS in "Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?"

dilDDoS — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:42:29 +0000

As others have said, it's definitely volume, but also the lack of respecting robots.txt. Most AI crawlers that I've seen bombarding our sites just relentlessly scrape anything and everything, without even checking to see if anything has changed since the last time they crawled the site.

New comment by dilDDoS in "Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first"

dilDDoS — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:37:49 +0000

I'm happy to finally see this take. I've been feeling pretty left out with everyone singing the praises of AI-assisted editors while I struggle to understand the hype. I've tried a few and it's never felt like an improvement to my workflow. At least for my team, the actual writing of code has never been the problem or bottleneck. Getting code reviewed by someone else in a timely manner has been a problem though, so we're considering AI code reviews to at least take some burden out of the process.

New comment by dilDDoS in "Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy"

dilDDoS — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:54:31 +0000

I actually think pirating encourages a healthier approach to watching TV/movies. I've fully made the switch to pirating instead of subscribing to any streaming services, and it's led to me thinking more critically about what I want to spend time downloading and watching rather than just flipping mindlessly through endless amounts of readily available garbage on a streaming service.

I do still have Kanopy though, which is great for me but obviously depends on your library.

New comment by dilDDoS in "Show HN: Tool-Assisted Speedrunning the Boring Parts of Animal Crossing (GCN)"

dilDDoS — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:48:53 +0000

This is so cool and impressive. I loved the original Animal Crossing but also feel like the clunky keyboard input hasn't aged well. Thanks for sharing!

Google offers buyouts to more workers amid AI-driven tech upheaval

dilDDoS — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 16:14:07 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/google-layoffs-tech-869f86eb6b53044de2cf22a932b0213f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44249115

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by dilDDoS in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

dilDDoS — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 17:08:09 +0000

Neither do I, maybe that's the real difference here and not age

New comment by dilDDoS in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

dilDDoS — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:54:09 +0000

Right, I guess that's what I mean I've side-stepped so far. I don't generally work on anything web related and haven't had to repeatedly work on similar projects over and over again. I've maybe just misunderstood what most other developers actually work on in the industry.

Unsafe at Any Speed: Abusing Python Exec for Unauth RCE in Langflow AI

dilDDoS — Mon, 19 May 2025 22:30:20 +0000

Article URL: https://horizon3.ai/attack-research/disclosures/unsafe-at-any-speed-abusing-python-exec-for-unauth-rce-in-langflow-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44035647

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dilDDoS in "Ace: Realtime Computer Autopilot"

dilDDoS — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:40:43 +0000

That example made me wonder if this was satire...I'm guessing not, but pretty funny nonetheless. I bet my boss would love me texting him the names of random people from LinkedIn.

New comment by dilDDoS in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"

dilDDoS — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:09:07 +0000

I think LLMs have value, but what I'm really looking forward to is the day when everyone can just quietly use (or not use) LLMs and move on with their lives. It's like that one friend who started a new diet and can't shut up about it every time you see them, except instead of that one friend it's seemingly the majority of participants in tech forums. It's getting so old.

New comment by dilDDoS in "macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)"

dilDDoS — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 06:59:40 +0000

> When a video is playing, right click the speaker icon in the address bar or tab to enter Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode.

You can also double right-click the video itself and enter Picture-in-Picture mode from that menu

New comment by dilDDoS in "Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser"

dilDDoS — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:49:24 +0000

Maybe I’m overlooking it, but is there any mention of how browser extensions will (or won’t) work? I imagine I’m not alone in needing a password manager and ad blocking extensions for any browser I use. Either way, looking forward to seeing how this develops!

New comment by dilDDoS in "Solitaire"

dilDDoS — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:23:49 +0000

Great read, I always love reading about the thoughts and intentions behind game design.

> I play a couple runs before I go to bed

I do see the relaxing component of the game once you’ve got the hang of it and are playing on white stake. But I do feel like the game encourages you to take on more difficult/frustrating stakes and decks, so for someone working on gold stake for the black deck for example, it would absolutely not be something to play before bed (unless you’re in the mood to cry yourself to sleep)

New comment by dilDDoS in "Solitaire"

dilDDoS — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:17:58 +0000

People that mention this are usually referring to this chunk of the source code: https://www.reddit.com/r/programminghorror/s/KmEWRILR1q

My assumption is that a lot of the people that look at small chunks of code and judge someone’s programming ability are people who have only worked in corporate environments and have never had to build a large project on their own, and don’t have any understanding of the effort it takes to make a game like Balatro by yourself. Maybe that’s an unfair judgment. But so is calling LocalThunk a “shitty programmer” over some questionable if-else logic.

New comment by dilDDoS in "Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything"

dilDDoS — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:47:57 +0000

Looks like this was fixed, the parsed result says "$234.1" on my end. I wonder if the error was fixed manually or with another round of LLM parsing?

New comment by dilDDoS in "Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers"

dilDDoS — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:02:48 +0000

Sure, but in this case it's like driving your car 10 feet to your mailbox and then bragging about how it's an accelerant (in other words, the task wasn't remotely difficult to begin with and doesn't really warrant "accelerating"). I assume in this case your note about how it was written with an LLM was more just to spite the anti-LLM sentiment above though, which would make more sense.

New comment by dilDDoS in "Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers"

dilDDoS — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 01:31:38 +0000

I appreciate the intent behind this, but like others have pointed out, this is more likely to DOS your own website than accomplish the true goal.

Probably unethical or not possible, but you could maybe spin up a bunch of static pages on GitHub Pages with random filler text and then have your site redirect to a random one of those instead. Unless web crawlers don’t follow redirects.

New comment by dilDDoS in "Google.com search now refusing to search for FF esr 128 without JavaScript"

dilDDoS — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 01:07:10 +0000

I personally find the search results from Kagi to be superior to Google/DDG/etc, beyond just not having ads or sponsored content. Before switching to Kagi, I had started to feel like a lot of the front page results from Google were just sites that had managed to maximize their SEO but not actually have much valuable content. That hasn’t seemed to be the case with Kagi. I generally find that the results from them are a lot more informative.

Of course that’s highly subjective, so I think it’s worth trying out their free tier to see if the potential improvement in search result quality is something you notice and find valuable enough to spend money on.