Hacker News: gdulli

New comment by gdulli in "Star Citizen game has reached $1B in funding"

gdulli — Mon, 25 May 2026 01:33:18 +0000

Has a company ever had a greater fiduciary incentive not to finish and release their game?

New comment by gdulli in "Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County"

gdulli — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:23:25 +0000

The point is that the long-ongoing effort to weaken regulation leads to events like this as predicted, and further steps in that direction are powerfully incompetent.

New comment by gdulli in "Software Engineering at the Tipping Point"

gdulli — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:28:58 +0000

We used to ridicule "works on my machine" thinking but now we're pivoting the whole field into essentially that, shipping what "sticks" like you said.

New comment by gdulli in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

gdulli — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:36:05 +0000

We should call this obsession "longest Covid". Certain people will be on this until they die.

New comment by gdulli in "Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers"

gdulli — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:29:02 +0000

Covid already started to create a situation where people get indignant if you expect them to physically show up to places. Like we're in The Naked Sun. We're probably headed towards people feeling the same sort of entitled to respond to you in the medium of least effort, that is, copy/pasting from AI.

New comment by gdulli in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

gdulli — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:04:22 +0000

"Global warming" was bad branding because stupid/dishonest people smugly use any instance of unusual cold weather as an argument against it.

New comment by gdulli in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

gdulli — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:21:11 +0000

I made the switch to FreeTaxUSA from H&R Block online this year. It was very easy and I'm kicking myself for not doing it sooner. You can upload your previous year's PDF from your other software to import the data.

New comment by gdulli in "Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?"

gdulli — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:56:13 +0000

We already know the explanation. It's fundamental to their business model and continued existence to automate everything, false positives be damned, and they don't care about all the people who roll snake eyes on a given day. Because everyone just stays and keeps using them.

New comment by gdulli in "Public have more fear than hope on AI and future of work, study finds"

gdulli — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:54:07 +0000

It's far more concerning that so many people are incapable of understanding the reality of it.

New comment by gdulli in "Public have more fear than hope on AI and future of work, study finds"

gdulli — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:52:15 +0000

And the sad part is that it could be such a cool technology it had come about in an earlier time, before consumers and labor lost all their power. It's the combination of the era and the technology that's going to be bad for people more so than just the technology.

New comment by gdulli in "Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription"

gdulli — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:11:10 +0000

For me it's that Xbox has a Plex app. I'm not willing to use Android TV devices or connect my TV to the internet.

New comment by gdulli in "AI is too expensive"

gdulli — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:27:38 +0000

And the switch will continue, it won't be a one-time event. Like how the price of Netflix etc. keeps going up periodically.

If people's dependence on their streaming service keeps them captive, just wait until people have gone 5 years without doing real work.

New comment by gdulli in "The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam"

gdulli — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:59:35 +0000

All of these companies and their products and services are getting worse and more expensive. If their hostility to customers has not been punished so far then what reason is there to believe it ever will be?

The time to have quit Prime was years ago, before the price hikes, the degradation of service, their complicity in the sale of counterfeit goods, etc. People didn't leave. They won. They know they can do what they want now.

New comment by gdulli in "Canceled by Hinge"

gdulli — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:47:17 +0000

Perhaps most of what sucks right now is downstream from the advent of the technology and business model that allows companies to scale their users to the point where it's impossible to handle their customer service needs with actual people. Automation of human judgment isn't getting better, just cheaper and more convenient for the operator who's insulated from its failures anyway.

New comment by gdulli in "What “Amazon Supply Chain Services” Tells Us About What Amazon Is"

gdulli — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:13:39 +0000

I thought the main benefit of Prime was guaranteed fast shipping, since free shipping can still be had without Prime. So the shipping has gotten worse while the price gets raised to subsidize the production of Citadel?

New comment by gdulli in "Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us"

gdulli — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:57:09 +0000

Human creativity is not only not being rewarded, but people are increasingly talking like consuming too few tokens is something that's actively used against them.

New comment by gdulli in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

gdulli — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:47:44 +0000

He's trying to virtue signal based on an understanding of young people's values that's so unsophisticated that he thinks throwing them the word "immigrant" will get them on his side. And they're obviously smart enough to see through it.

New comment by gdulli in "Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025)"

gdulli — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:56:20 +0000

> What is the use case for the average non-technical person?

"I used the button they made biggest and closest to the top of the page."

New comment by gdulli in "A digital billboard company has the technology to make 3D ads on moving trucks"

gdulli — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:39:08 +0000

What could a movement to directly punish advertisers look like? Ones who pass a certain threshold of ruining the venue they're sponsoring or generally worsen a community, online or off. Why do they get a pass, no matter how far they encroach on ruining environments and institutions?

New comment by gdulli in "Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?"

gdulli — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:44:25 +0000

Over the last 30 years the culture and power has made a gradual shift from 100% pure hobbyists to 4% hobbyists, 48% scammers/predators, and 48% commercial.

You can't pinpoint when the fun stopped and it's subjective. I personally became conscious that the party was fully over around 2023, after a few years of feeling it subconsciously.

2023 was when Twitter and Reddit changed their respective APIs and became openly user hostile, which was the symbolic turning point for me.