Hacker News: dorgo

New comment by dorgo in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

dorgo — Sat, 23 May 2026 06:08:11 +0000

They probably mean a vote which doesn't violate international law.

New comment by dorgo in "France moves to break encrypted messaging"

dorgo — Sun, 10 May 2026 09:53:07 +0000

I came about a Google subscription which includes 2TB of storage. I filled it with crypto noise (ok, Gemini did it for me). I couldn't let it be unused. Will have to delete it when the subscriptions runs out.

New comment by dorgo in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

dorgo — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:16:25 +0000

Maybe all intellectual work is intellectual labor?

New comment by dorgo in "€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs"

dorgo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:20:05 +0000

>There's a delay between incurring costs and receiving budget notifications, so you might incur additional costs for usage that hasn't arrived at the time that all services are stopped.

This delay may be hours or days. I managed to spend $400 in 5 minutes.

New comment by dorgo in "U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025"

dorgo — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:35:43 +0000

>aligns incentives with the good of humanity

is this possible?

New comment by dorgo in "Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?"

dorgo — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:25:30 +0000

Sounds like the AI was not dumb but lazy. I do it similarly when I don't feel like doing it.

New comment by dorgo in "The most famous transcendental numbers"

dorgo — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 09:30:38 +0000

I missunderstood "finite-length strings" as strings capped in length by a finite number N.

New comment by dorgo in "10 years of personal finances in plain text files"

dorgo — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:25:40 +0000

have a "Costco purchases" sub-category for "groceries". If you ever feel differently, just move it to "home". Your system has to support this though. I did multiple re-organisations in the last 10+ years.

New comment by dorgo in "The most famous transcendental numbers"

dorgo — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:40:53 +0000

This argument is valid for every infinite set, for example: the natural numbers.

New comment by dorgo in "Firefox expands fingerprint protections"

dorgo — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:04:28 +0000

I was wondering why uBlock is not enough since you can block Javascript globally and re-enable per site. AI's answer:

Only things uBlock doesn’t replicate:

NoScript’s anti-XSS and anti-clickjacking heuristics (uBlock just blocks the sources, not sanitize payloads).

NoScript’s control over other active content types (e.g., WebGL, media codecs, etc).

New comment by dorgo in "LLMs encode how difficult problems are"

dorgo — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 08:24:31 +0000

The complex objects are conceptually similar to prime numbers.

New comment by dorgo in "What's New with Firefox 142"

dorgo — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:20:35 +0000

cool. There is also about:performance with cpu & memory for each tab / addon. Hmm, it looks like all extensions are combined in a single entry. So, maybe not per addon.

New comment by dorgo in "We put a coding agent in a while loop"

dorgo — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 10:14:47 +0000

naaa, you just run "unfuck it" in a loop..

New comment by dorgo in "Google is winning on every AI front"

dorgo — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 17:13:56 +0000

Try asking ChatGPT to solve a captcha for you ( character recognition in a foreign language ). AI studio doesn't refuse.

New comment by dorgo in "Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)"

dorgo — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 20:35:47 +0000

SponsorBlock needs an AI-version. Currently it relies on users.

New comment by dorgo in "The Anthropic Economic Index"

dorgo — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 19:52:06 +0000

>I know multiple agencies who cut staff by 80-90% without dropping revenue.

I'm finding it hard to reconcile this with my own experiences. My whole team ( 5 people ) left last year ( for better pay I guess ) and the marketing agency in germany Im working for had to substitute them with freelancers. To offset the cost they fired the one guy who was hired to push the whole LLM AI topic. We managed to fill one junior position by offering 10k+ more then in their last job. The firm would love to hire people to replace the freelancers. We had to cut stuff lately. But mostly they closed the kitchen which wasn't used due to work from home policy. Definitely don't see any stuff reduction due to automation / LLM use. They still pay (external) people 60€ per written text/article. Because clients don't like LLM written stuff.

New comment by dorgo in "Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history"

dorgo — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:30:33 +0000

Take the computer which beats Magnus and restrain it to never make the best move in a position. Expand this to N best moves as needed to reach 1300 rating.

New comment by dorgo in ""Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers""

dorgo — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:21:29 +0000

I managed to delete all records in a table a week ago ( I blame copilot ). Used time travel ( not quite inter-dimensional travel ) in bigquery to restore. INSERT INTO ... SELECT * FROM ... FOR SYSTEM_TIME AS OF TIMESTAMP_SUB(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(), INTERVAL 1 HOUR)

New comment by dorgo in "Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how about a $10k donation?"

dorgo — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 18:50:35 +0000

Would the snapshot contain the same info ( beyound any doubt ) that an actual user would see if they opened LinkedIn/Facebook/Service from Canada on an IPhone at a saturday morning (for example)? If not, the snapshot is useles for some usecases and we are back to scraping.

New comment by dorgo in "Show HN: Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app"

dorgo — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 11:14:42 +0000

I used to put buttons in the menu ( or even side panels ), but nowdays I draw a big button and attach a apps script function to it. Looks more bad ass.