Hacker News: dumbfounder

New comment by dumbfounder in "Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework"

dumbfounder — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:51:05 +0000

Now what we need is a chat interface to develop these config files.

New comment by dumbfounder in "I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project"

dumbfounder — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:03:41 +0000

DMCA?

New comment by dumbfounder in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

dumbfounder — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:09:14 +0000

The future is that people stop buying software and just build it themselves. The spam filter in thunderbird was broken for me, I built my own in hours and it works way better. Oh that CRM doesn’t have the features you want? Build one that does. It will become very easy to built and deploy solutions to many of your own bespoke problems.

New comment by dumbfounder in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

dumbfounder — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:26:00 +0000

I don’t like the comparison between humans and humans. Humans don’t travel around at 100mph in packs of other humans. Why not use every sensor type at our disposal if it gives us more info to make decisions? Yes I understand it’s more complicated, but we figure stuff out.

New comment by dumbfounder in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

dumbfounder — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:33:36 +0000

We need to update robots.txt for the LLM world, help them find things more efficiently (or not at all I guess). Provide specs for actions that can be taken. Etc.

New comment by dumbfounder in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

dumbfounder — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:45:31 +0000

You are assuming they will commit to the solution and ride it to their grave trying to make it work. They will experiment and figure out a way to make it cheaper, or they will give up. They have plenty of money to experiment with this.

New comment by dumbfounder in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

dumbfounder — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:07:23 +0000

You can debate this until you are blue in the face. If the costs are less they will do it. If they aren’t they won’t do it. That’s the only sense that needs to be made.

New comment by dumbfounder in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

dumbfounder — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:56:25 +0000

So is your solution that Europe only creates small companies?

New comment by dumbfounder in "No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter"

dumbfounder — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:29:10 +0000

“Even if you can disable individual AI features, the cognitive load of monitoring an opaque system that’s supposedly working on your behalf would be overwhelming.”

99.9% of people haven’t ever had one single thought about how their software works. I don’t think they will be overwhelmed with cognitive load. Quite the opposite.

New comment by dumbfounder in "GPT-5.2"

dumbfounder — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:20:12 +0000

Because it’s better.

New comment by dumbfounder in "Building a Simple Search Engine That Works"

dumbfounder — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 12:43:42 +0000

Elastic and many others fail to solve this problem too. There are many different strategies and many of them require ingenuity and development.

New comment by dumbfounder in "The cost of turning down wind turbines in Britain"

dumbfounder — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:52:29 +0000

Any numbers on how much energy isn’t sensitive to time? Is it reasonable to say that people can just use energy more when it’s windy to save money? Perhaps if could incentivize people to have large local batteries to eat it up during these times and use it during more costly times? But that seems very expensive.

New comment by dumbfounder in "Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026"

dumbfounder — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 02:05:38 +0000

There are businesses that attract people that use cards fraudulently and the business gets flagged demand eventually dropped. Gas stations in less desirable neighborhoods in the US have this issue and some only take cash.

New comment by dumbfounder in "Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant"

dumbfounder — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 04:23:06 +0000

How is the pig doing?

New comment by dumbfounder in "That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus"

dumbfounder — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:50:26 +0000

I don’t think it’s some master scheme. They are trying to make money more than anything else. So they distort the truth to what sells the most. That just happens to be one of two major ideologies that hate each other. The effect is the same, but the motivations, and thus how you counteract, are different.

New comment by dumbfounder in "That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus"

dumbfounder — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:26:21 +0000

Seems like it would be easy for phone companies to locate SIM farms, no? They can triangulate based on the zillion texts coming from one location?

New comment by dumbfounder in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

dumbfounder — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 11:20:23 +0000

Are we saying software engineers making $125-150k are middle class? If so, then yes this I absolutely believe this is true. These will still be high level people for the most part that will up our game in my opinion. Thats in the opinion column, hard to prove. But this fee may have a net negative impact on jobs for Americans as it will push more companies to simply outsource to these countries rather than pay more in the US. So you need to tax that too. And then they will find some way around that and we will need to tax that new thing. I don’t like this game, it is trying to stop progress in my opinion. But I guess it is a balancing act and who knows where you set the line. Adding friction to it will definitely make it so only higher quality talent migrates here, that much seems clear.

New comment by dumbfounder in "The Old Robots Web Site"

dumbfounder — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:16:06 +0000

https://theoldrobots.net/ https://theoldrobots.org/

New comment by dumbfounder in "Saquon Barkley is playing for equity"

dumbfounder — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:46:16 +0000

He did a commercial and helps sales for Ramp and he only has $500k into them? That is either the deal of the century for Ramp or the reporting is inaccurate.

New comment by dumbfounder in "Like Intel before it, AMD blames motherboard makers for burnt-out CPUs"

dumbfounder — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:18:39 +0000

If the motherboards are putting too much power into the chips, why isn’t it their fault?