Hacker News: gdulli

New comment by gdulli in "Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?"

gdulli — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:40:33 +0000

Probably.

New comment by gdulli in "QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes"

gdulli — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:34:03 +0000

You're an employee. This use case is for people much richer than you.

New comment by gdulli in "There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get"

gdulli — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:09:01 +0000

It's like trying to argue with someone saying they actually are going to build the whole plane out of the black box. At some point we should just cut our losses.

New comment by gdulli in "There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get"

gdulli — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:33:18 +0000

People refuse to accept that there's more bad code/behavior/people that AI will empower and amplify than good.

New comment by gdulli in "New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal"

gdulli — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:35:57 +0000

Likely an Amerocentric comment, yes, that assumes gambling can only be as destructive and predatory as it is in the US. I don't know anything about how it works in the UK but it's plausible to me that it's not as harmful a force there, as you say.

New comment by gdulli in "New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal"

gdulli — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:05:08 +0000

Imagine two siblings, one who can handle the freedom of choosing their own bedtime and one who cannot.

New comment by gdulli in "Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"

gdulli — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:31:24 +0000

> What protection do LLM search engines have against training off content generated by other LLMs?

You're talking about a scenario that won't blow itself up in the next few quarters, so it's of no interest to them.

New comment by gdulli in "Advertisers Could Soon Demand 'Verified Clicks'"

gdulli — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:35:58 +0000

If not illegal, what if it's used as justification to further lock down browsers and operating systems? Apple makes a ton of money selling traffic to Google and has a vested interest in preserving the effectiveness of targeted advertising.

New comment by gdulli in "It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI"

gdulli — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:38:18 +0000

What am I even here for if not to have my own ideas?

New comment by gdulli in "Big Tech's Frantic Race to Quell the Growing Backlash to AI"

gdulli — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:44:12 +0000

After social media, streaming, crypto, what have you, too many of us have come to understand that advances in technology in this era are going to be used against us more than for us.

New comment by gdulli in "The service XCancel is stopped until further notice"

gdulli — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:25:42 +0000

I agree. I think of these alternatives as off-ramps, not replacements. In 2023 I ditched my Reddit and Twitter accounts thinking it would be very difficult. Today, the idea of losing the off-ramps no longer bothers me.

New comment by gdulli in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

gdulli — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:39:39 +0000

What does it even mean, period? MAGA losers are free to establish a community on Bluesky, the only difference between that and Twitter is that Bluesky isn't built to optimize for ragebait and culture war fighting. But they can still socialize among themselves on Bluesky even if no one else wants anything to do with them.

New comment by gdulli in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

gdulli — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:43:50 +0000

The biggest social networks can only die slowly. They have too much momentum for the the type of sudden exodus that was possible when the internet had not yet absorbed the entire population.

New comment by gdulli in "Silicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not for Their Kids"

gdulli — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:23:54 +0000

Tokens for the poors, real teachers for our kids.

New comment by gdulli in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

gdulli — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:26:24 +0000

One strange form that the post-truth era takes is deciding that stances you don't believe in aren't even real. Saves you the trouble of having to engage with them meaningfully.

New comment by gdulli in "The Amazon Tax"

gdulli — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:20:42 +0000

This plus the login-walled reviews is unfortunate because once I stopped buying from Amazon I'd continue to go there to browse before buying elsewhere.

New comment by gdulli in "Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe"

gdulli — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:06:27 +0000

TV has unskippable and targeted commercials now. The list goes on and on.

New comment by gdulli in "AI Coding Without the Vibes"

gdulli — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:16:11 +0000

Exactly. I always think about the ways consumers make terrible decisions with everyday purchases at the grocery store etc. If people could easily estimate unit costs in their head for example, a lot of predatory options would have to go away. But calculators keep people from having to get good with everyday math in their head, while those same calculators sit unused in many everyday scenarios where people don't go to the effort to use them.

New comment by gdulli in "Meta will train its AI on Newsmax, a far-right media outlet"

gdulli — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:59:04 +0000

Maybe their goal is to be able to point to the untrustworthiness of the source material as cover when they're accused of hallucination.

New comment by gdulli in "The AI Situation in Software Development"

gdulli — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:41:32 +0000

People who are trying to sell you AI and people who are now dependent on it are desperate for you to believe in its inevitability.