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New comment by gorgmah in "The Richest Country Is Pretty Mid Now [Benn Jordan][video]"

gorgmah — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:39:27 +0000

I like the word leveragism, in France people talk a lot about "financiarisation de l'immobilier", i.e. how real estate was a commodities in the 70s and is now a financial asset.

The video made me think of Peter Turchin's "End Times", a book that I recommend, for whatever it's worth, to you anonymous internet fellows. The book talks about many of the same arguments, and adds more. Its main thesis is that the author studied hundreds of major crises that led to war/poverty/revolutions etc., and the one thing all these events have in common is the excess of people that are willing to be part of the elite. He calls that the overproduction of elites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction.

New comment by gorgmah in "Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Support Self-Hosting"

gorgmah — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:26:52 +0000

yes and it's not even on the front page yet lol

New comment by gorgmah in "Ask HN: Homeless, Former Software Developer, What Now?"

gorgmah — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:27:28 +0000

Do you have any family/friends you could stay at? This situation is preventing you from taking the time to make smart next-moves.

New comment by gorgmah in "Ask HN: How do you guys find your competitors?"

gorgmah — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:11:51 +0000

The consumer version of chatgpt is very good at this if prompted correctly, as it can do a ton of web searches and compile results nicely.

If you're very early stage and you are not on an established market, your competitors may not be visible on google but are (almost guaranteed) on the same marketing channels as you are. For instance, if you sell accessories for cats, you and your competitors will be in the reddit / instagram / tiktok comments for relevant cat articles / videos.

Fun fact: On reddit, I found that a good strategy is to google search for users that are "advising" others for their "favorite" product. It's usually one or several guys astroturfing to get their product some social validation.

New comment by gorgmah in "Anthropic CEO: Open-Source AI is getting dangerous (2023)"

gorgmah — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:09:02 +0000

They just want US authorities to ban big corporations from using models like GLM etc. so that they can keep selling their overpriced tokens. Funnily enough, a ban like this would close to impossible to enforce on individuals, so I guess their lobbying efforts will soon be met by lobbying efforts from big corporations that are losing from this.

New comment by gorgmah in "Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it"

gorgmah — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:04:50 +0000

Already 12 points after just 34 minutes. As noted at the end of the article, streisand effect is alive and well and this article is on its way to the front page.

New comment by gorgmah in "The Age of the Solopreneur"

gorgmah — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:31:22 +0000

I recently tried it as a solopreneur (you don't really need to leave your job anymore since AI multiplied early-stage coding capacity significantly). Even on my tiny niche (notekeeper + AI assistant for dungeons and dragons), there's a ridiculous amount of competition (1).

I think these are the times of "marketing engineers", aka people who manage to make small tools/gimmicks that draw attention on social media. If you figure out how to do this, you'll be the king of the age of AI software.

[1] Fun fact: the demographics that plays DnD either hates AI (half of them) or now vibe-codes their own tools (the other half)

New comment by gorgmah in "A Niche Technology Became a Choke Point for A.I"

gorgmah — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:16:47 +0000

>The packaging bottleneck has become a hot topic in Silicon Valley as TSMC has struggled to keep up with demand. Dr. Iyer tried to help by developing plans for a packaging research and development center, funded with $1.1 billion from the Biden administration and slated to be built in Arizona, but the Trump administration effectively killed the effort last year.

Crazy how dependent on politics these projects are.

New comment by gorgmah in "Opus 4.8 feels worse then sonnet"

gorgmah — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:05:19 +0000

actually, now I just witnessed it acting brain-dead. New release for sure, or maybe fable is coming back?

New comment by gorgmah in "Opus 4.8 feels worse then sonnet"

gorgmah — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:34:45 +0000

New release maybe? I did not notice it this time, but usually people reporting degraded models correlates with new models release

New comment by gorgmah in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

gorgmah — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:40:08 +0000

I continue working on my search engine for Dungeons and Dragons, basically making a specialized chatgpt for D&D + a discord bot that autorecords sessions and sends you the transcript & AI summary when it's done. At the moment I'm trying to figure out how to make it completely free without sinking too much of my own money into it. I'm thinking maybe running it on one GLM subscription or something like that, and it simply is not available whenever it runs out of tokens?

Anyways, here it is: https://lorepanic.com/landing-new

New comment by gorgmah in "Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud"

gorgmah — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:50:22 +0000

their product attempts to duplicate your local dev setup on a machine on the cloud, which means they copy your .env / local postgres db, local docker-compose stack etc. It worked quite well for me, I tried it just now (except for postgres + setting up git). I think the product is quite good but still needs a bit of polishing.

I'm a bit frustrated that they restrained EU users from downloading their app, but I guess they just want to avoid dealing with GDPR, which is fair for an early startup!

New comment by gorgmah in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

gorgmah — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:58:00 +0000

Youtube revanced on your phone + ublock on firefox and you'll never see youtube ads again. There's also a replacement app for android TV that I forgot the name of that works well. Do not use chrome, google nerfed its ad-blocking capabilities a while ago

New comment by gorgmah in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

gorgmah — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:45:52 +0000

I see this kind of first-gen coding agents a bit like the AI-era microsoft excel: you need to be a poweruser to use it correctly, otherwise you'll end up failing catastrophically. Hence the amount of different ways to use it.

Having an "unfinished" product is also a great marketing tool for companies like anthropic: each skill/plugin/guide that you see on the internet is boosting their SEO + social validation metrics.

AI Warfare Is Here

gorgmah — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:29:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/937028/military-ai-warfare-red-lines

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291352

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by gorgmah in "The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble"

gorgmah — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:48:03 +0000

There is also a significant amount of accounting fraud happening right now, according to Michael Burry: https://x.com/michaeljburry/status/1987918650104283372?lang=...

The comments to his tweet, if true, tend to say that the real lifespan of an AI chip tends to be around 1 to 3 years in reality, since racks don't cool down that well. Not sure if these commenters are a reliable source though lol. https://x.com/xdire_me/status/1987920424978837711

New comment by gorgmah in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

gorgmah — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:37:37 +0000

In france, there was an edition of the discworld series literally called "pocket", and yes it sometimes fit in pockets (which had to be on the bigger end of pockets though), especially if you bended the book a little. Looked like this: https://www.babelio.com/livres/Pratchett-Les-annales-du-Disq...

The first books of the discworld were thin too.

New comment by gorgmah in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

gorgmah — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:32:14 +0000

I apologize for making you sad, seeing all the comments made me realize that I should have been way less aggressive with the AI proofreading ; I wanted the sentences to feel a bit more Terry Pratchetty and thought a lot of Claude's suggestions were really better than what I had made. I actually agree to your point too

New comment by gorgmah in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

gorgmah — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:28:20 +0000

Yeah this was the way I originally started to read his books. The translations were amazing. When I later started to read the originals, I was surprised at how difficult it was for me to understand: the jokes are really designed for native speakers in a lot of ways, and the vocabulary isn't that simple

I Miss Terry Pratchett

gorgmah — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:35:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mahl.me/blog/the-spell-that-wouldnt-leave/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247127

Points: 236

# Comments: 248