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New comment by gdulli in "AMD CEO saying it's a "data center first" company and PC sales will plummet"

gdulli — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 23:47:48 +0000

Streaming services became terrible and there hasn't been a huge market for home Plex server.

New comment by gdulli in "Crunchy Moms became 'the most dangerous' group on Facebook"

gdulli — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:11:19 +0000

When The Social Reckoning came out recently I saw several misguided comments from people that the title didn't make sense because there was never a reckoning for Zuckerberg. Right! That's because it was us who faced the reckoning. For enriching these people in exchange for platforms that are the path of least resistance for trading cat pictures.

New comment by gdulli in "Investors wipe $2.5T off Nasdaq as blue tsunami prompts AI fears"

gdulli — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 02:33:06 +0000

I don't like pork chops, does that mean I'm anti-food?

Is this really the quality of comment you want to have put out there?

New comment by gdulli in "Ask HN: What your experience with the monthly "who wants to be hired" thread?"

gdulli — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 22:59:48 +0000

I was contracted once to do some freelance work and they ghosted me. Later I found out from other comments here that they have a reputation for being a flake.

New comment by gdulli in "Conductor is joining Meta"

gdulli — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:04:48 +0000

Everything you add to your tech stack is a liability. Period. I've always leaned minimalist.

New comment by gdulli in "Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI"

gdulli — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:36:12 +0000

It's incredibly obtuse to pretend not to understand that people object to LLM slop, but not everything that can fall under the broad term of "AI".

New comment by gdulli in "Schools that block Google A.I. will lose student access to its search engine"

gdulli — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:35:07 +0000

I guess it was effectively phrased in the second person.

New comment by gdulli in "Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI"

gdulli — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:33:34 +0000

A big part of this era is a shift to de-anonymizing all search, research, etc. That should be seen as its own problem separate from one's feelings about AI.

New comment by gdulli in "Please Let the Internet Die. It's Time to Start Over"

gdulli — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:50:50 +0000

Unfortunately, the worst of the greed is being driven by people who can afford anything and only need more money because it's their measurement of their self worth.

New comment by gdulli in "Work Requirements for Trick-or-Treaters"

gdulli — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 02:25:50 +0000

https://snltranscripts.jt.org/94/94dperot.phtml

New comment by gdulli in "Polymarket 1h halt after vendor compromise; affected users will be 'made whole'"

gdulli — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:02:53 +0000

Due to similar bad timing I got my first Playstation right before the hack in the early 2010s that took down the Playstation network for a whole month. When they offered a make-good to their customers I didn't qualify because my account was too new. I never bought another Sony product again.

New comment by gdulli in "Sam Altman Thinks You're Wasting DRAM"

gdulli — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:27:12 +0000

Will you be happy when those models are five years old? Ten years? They'll age out in their ability and their cutoff date.

New comment by gdulli in "Sam Altman Thinks You're Wasting DRAM"

gdulli — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:14:51 +0000

All well and good for now until the free lunch of free models ends, and the ones you can "freely" download have weights that tell you to drink Ovaltine or whatever other messaging gets sold.

New comment by gdulli in "Utah charges Kalshi and its CEO with illegally promoting online gambling"

gdulli — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:18:14 +0000

We rightly restrict tobacco advertising because freedom to advertise is balanced with and does not always trump public health. Rights and responsibilities are not absolute, they exist in a complex tapestry of priorities.

New comment by gdulli in "Google admits AI search makes less money, but it's fixing that with more ads"

gdulli — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:05:58 +0000

Going from cable to streaming was a net increase in advertising because now the providers can make ads unskippable. (Also the ads are hypertargeted now.)

Going from traditional search to AI will echo that net worsening of ad-related user experience. The net surveillance is also greater because logged-out search will go away.

Maybe there's a general lesson that successive generations/disruptions of technology seem better at first but end up qualitatively worse.

New comment by gdulli in "Please Let the Internet Die"

gdulli — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:20:09 +0000

A side effect of rapid technological change is that there are now multiple generations who didn't experience the pre-monetized internet.

It's like we've hit a tipping point where enshittification etc. are allowed to thrive because there's no longer a critical mass of people who know from first-hand experience that things don't have to be this bad.

It's become easy to pacify young people with the meme that older people didnt really have a better internet, they're remembering the past as better than it actually was.

New comment by gdulli in "Ask HN: What do you believe or not believe about AI?"

gdulli — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:09:30 +0000

People will eventually realize that they've become dependent on an increasingly expensive and worsening AI subscription in a way that echoes the worsening and rising costs of streaming services.

But the impact of depending on the tech giants for search and cognition and job skills will be significantly greater.

Why will employers five years from now pay for your $300 AI subscription when there exist other candidates who will absorb the cost themselves?

New comment by gdulli in "'Forced out': HOA fees to rise to $2,500 a month"

gdulli — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 03:20:06 +0000

If you click on one of the related articles it says that they wanted to raise it to $7500 but "compromised" on $2500. So it's actually a bargain!

New comment by gdulli in "Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google"

gdulli — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:56:38 +0000

It's a disgrace what the "open" internet has become.

New comment by gdulli in "Alzheimer's breakthrough: 2 hrs of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques"

gdulli — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:32:41 +0000

We're adults like you are and can manage both our emotions and the responsibility of understanding that headlines aren't the totality of information.