Hacker News: dombiscoff

New comment by dombiscoff in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

dombiscoff — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:15:37 +0000

Wouldn't this only check their social and health related abilities?

New comment by dombiscoff in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

dombiscoff — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:26:17 +0000

99% of the replies here speak from the point of view that they are of the intelligent group. Hmmm, either hacker news is some sort of naturally forming mensa community or there's a lot of ego being put on display here.

New comment by dombiscoff in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

dombiscoff — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:54:59 +0000

Art is information, always.

New comment by dombiscoff in "Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful"

dombiscoff — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:52:13 +0000

I think he just enjoys terminal styling, man.

New comment by dombiscoff in "Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful"

dombiscoff — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:51:17 +0000

I think the line of reasoning that a method should provide as much accessibility as possible to not alienate real humans is a good one. You use 'have to' as if there aren't better solutions that could be invented, but such will only occur if we challenge the imperfect solutions we have now.

New comment by dombiscoff in "Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful"

dombiscoff — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:49:19 +0000

Quite frankly I don't understand why the cat and mouse argument here is meant to serve as a shutdown for anti-AI methods. Whole industries entirely exist in a cat and mouse state (cybersecurity, anti-cheat, etc) and no one in those industries imply that any solution is or can be a permanent dunk. If anything, the very fact that theres no permanent dunk is what leads to such industries developing a competitive service based industry to begin with. Why can't a theoretical anti-AI industry develop into the same thing? These fonts just seem like the infancy steps for such.

New comment by dombiscoff in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

dombiscoff — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:51:31 +0000

A lot of people are saying to stop using facebook as if its such a simple, catch-all answer. For a lot of people, and a lot of countries, facebook (whatsapp, too) is still the primary(only) way of communication. If not with your friends, then with your family. There's a big demand from those people to have a way of interacting with this pseudo-essential service without having to oblige to complete data rape.

New comment by dombiscoff in "Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years"

dombiscoff — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:21:32 +0000

Says you, wouldn't historians find this interesting? The medici family is a prominent part of Italian history. But again, think of the vulture capital!

New comment by dombiscoff in "Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books"

dombiscoff — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:26:29 +0000

All the better for it. Although I apologise if my wording came off as 'bad faith.'

New comment by dombiscoff in "Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years"

dombiscoff — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:05:01 +0000

I too am astounded by humanities desire to know things without a monetary benefit. Don't they understand the money spent on this could've gone to a vulture capital?

New comment by dombiscoff in "Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books"

dombiscoff — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:36:55 +0000

I ask you to question why those 'avid readers' are looking for a shortcut to increase their volume rather than a shortcut to increase their comprehension. Looking at this users are comments, his desire is simply to increase the tally rather than any genuine interest in reading.

New comment by dombiscoff in "Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books"

dombiscoff — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:23:37 +0000

You're right, I agree.

New comment by dombiscoff in "Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books"

dombiscoff — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:21:10 +0000

What do you read?

New comment by dombiscoff in "Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books"

dombiscoff — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:54:28 +0000

Sounds like a pointless endeavour to me. This infinite efficiency quest for speed reading is chief pursued by those who don't read regularly, and so don't understand that ones comprehension comes from the pauses, the page turns, and the backtracks which make up reading traditionally. If one has no time to digest, are they truly reading a book or just an impromptu script?

New comment by dombiscoff in "Stop Killing Games"

dombiscoff — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:02:15 +0000

It just wouldn't

New comment by dombiscoff in "Googlebook"

dombiscoff — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:34:26 +0000

This sounds like a terrible idea. Why not just have a simulated fashion shoot of yourself rather than requiring a database of the entire populations likeness to find your doppelganger? Very dystopian

New comment by dombiscoff in "FreeBSD Device Drivers Book"

dombiscoff — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:11:25 +0000

very lucid idea for a book, though the ai generated cover doesn't inspire much confidence in me.

New comment by dombiscoff in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

dombiscoff — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:30:10 +0000

Depends on the countries water quality. Some countries don't have water good for drinking, and others have poor taste which many are put off by. That being said, many EU airports do have water refill machines. Germanys airports for example..

New comment by dombiscoff in "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"

dombiscoff — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:54:11 +0000

Why is this here? Extreme clickbait for those without tech literacy