Hacker News: duskdozer

New comment by duskdozer in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

duskdozer — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:13:43 +0000

Society shouldn't. But it's not society making that decision, it's the corporations and people with lots of wealth that want to get even more wealth.

New comment by duskdozer in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"

duskdozer — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:07:05 +0000

And the article images with the signature AI-face

New comment by duskdozer in "Why I don’t vibe code"

duskdozer — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:43:50 +0000

Do you think people can't care about things or have ethical standards without "virtue signaling"? It seems like a lot of people do think so. Or maybe this is a form of "vice signaling"

New comment by duskdozer in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

duskdozer — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:54:57 +0000

No need to presume: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

New comment by duskdozer in "Google changes its search box"

duskdozer — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:02:40 +0000

As it turns out I found out some people use tiktok as a search engine. How exactly, I am not sure.

New comment by duskdozer in "Google changes its search box"

duskdozer — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:01:28 +0000

It should have been a clear extension of the intent of existing copyright/licensing that training would be disallowed without consent, but "move fast and break things"/"possession is nine-tenths of the law" win out

New comment by duskdozer in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

duskdozer — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:41:47 +0000

Yeah, I was too, I'll clarify. The photoGIMP UI doesn't seem that meaningfully different than the default UI to me, to where the idea that it is then not "crafted by coders" doesn't seem to make sense to me.

New comment by duskdozer in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

duskdozer — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:21:04 +0000

>it's clear the UI was crafted by coders

Is it? Why? Looking at the screenshot on this, it just seems like a few items were moved around a bit, presumably because that's where Photoshop has them.

New comment by duskdozer in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

duskdozer — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:16:26 +0000

I often find irritations in programs that are either too low-priority or too idiosyncratic to end up getting changed by the owners/maintainers, so having easy access to the source is a huge plus for me, regardless of the product cost.

New comment by duskdozer in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

duskdozer — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:10:40 +0000

I'm having the same issue with Standard Notes. It's almost 30 seconds now and becoming an issue, especially with Android's aggressive memory freeing. It wasn't so bad early on but it gets worse as notes accumulate.

New comment by duskdozer in "AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]"

duskdozer — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:37:24 +0000

That quote is actually from "Scott Rackey" and not the OP: https://web.archive.org/web/20220603095222/https://twitter.c...

New comment by duskdozer in "Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment"

duskdozer — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:46:32 +0000

As long as they keep it n steps ahead of genpop, they'll still have an edge I guess. Seems that this is all according to plan:

>"We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter," Altman said.

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/sam-altman-sparks-backlas...

New comment by duskdozer in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

duskdozer — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:34:38 +0000

Well it is a .ai domain and they run some kind of AI product (unclear what exactly) so I guess they just don't see an issue with that sort of thing. I don't know if people are happily reading stuff like this or if they just get the "AI summary"

New comment by duskdozer in "Δ-Mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models"

duskdozer — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:52:34 +0000

I believe that. I also believe that my idea won't come to fruition, at least from a group that is incentivized to make a user's first instinct be to use their product and not an external tool.

New comment by duskdozer in "SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video"

duskdozer — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:43:26 +0000

>We are able to create less satisfying, less humane experiences faster?

Yes, exactly. Inundate the world with superficially plausible yet hollow content, including any desired themes. People who aren't very discerning won't complain; the others will be outmatched and find that 99/100 pieces are all noise and they will need to spend increasing amounts of time trying to find the 1, if they can.

I think there are some good parallels with Amazon: the broken sorting and manipulated unit pricing, coupled with the avalanche of cheap clones pushes users to give up and just buy one of the top listed products (a featured listing/Amazon-clone). If you do a web search for various products and go to images, Amazon product links often take up 50-90% of the results.

New comment by duskdozer in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

duskdozer — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:26:02 +0000

I'm not sure that it has to be on a consciousness levels. I think it can be explained by anxiety/fear.

New comment by duskdozer in "Δ-Mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models"

duskdozer — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:37:38 +0000

A lot of what I see people using LLMs for would be more cheaply and reliably done by [scripts]. A search engine style suggestion thing like "Have you tried `sed`?" would be beneficial imo

New comment by duskdozer in "The Wonders of AI: We Are Retiring Our Bug Bounty Program"

duskdozer — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:55:49 +0000

I think I saw this on here yesterday: https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch

Not great for privacy or ad-hoc contributions, but I don't see a way out of the muck without some kind of trust net.

New comment by duskdozer in "The Wonders of AI: We Are Retiring Our Bug Bounty Program"

duskdozer — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:36:39 +0000

Exactly! They should have set [your agentic AI toolkit could be here!] loose on these issues and 100x'd their output, all while actually shipping fixes to these issues instead of closing them. These Luddites are going to be left in the dust as AI is here to stay!

New comment by duskdozer in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"

duskdozer — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:08:06 +0000

Maybe it's not expected, but one would think that they would also try to do what is feasible to provide privacy if they can.