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New comment by hackernud3s in "DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests"

hackernud3s — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:02:10 +0000

That just means they have proxies in Pakistan, that's not as impressive as you're making it sound.

New comment by hackernud3s in "DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests"

hackernud3s — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:39 +0000

$1 with Serper, and it gets lower with volume. I thought I remembered Serp Api being higher than that. They do have a decent free tier

New comment by hackernud3s in "Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time"

hackernud3s — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 01:42:31 +0000

Solar is full on hockey-sticking in that "share of generation by source" graph. That's a beautiful thing to see.

New comment by hackernud3s in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

hackernud3s — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:44:41 +0000

I mean if you want to get all Nietzsche about it, then suicide is no longer a permanent solution.

New comment by hackernud3s in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

hackernud3s — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 03:40:05 +0000

What I really don't like is to hear people who aren't struggling with it, to call someone else's on-going struggle "a temporary problem".

New comment by hackernud3s in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"

hackernud3s — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:28:11 +0000

Since we're sharing anecdotes, I had a guy who couldn't pull my wisdom teeth. He really got in there with the pliers, got his leg up on the chair for leverage and was really yanking on it but it wouldn't give. He was a big guy too, really broke a sweat.

Finally he gave up but first he tried to talk me into going into a hospital for more heavy duty anesthetic. I was like nah.

New comment by hackernud3s in "Worlds more habitable than Earth?"

hackernud3s — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:36:46 +0000

> nor would anyone be able to understand your language.

Huh? We already have machines that can understand any language from a sample.

New comment by hackernud3s in "Worlds more habitable than Earth?"

hackernud3s — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:35:15 +0000

At least it's soundproof though. There's nothing worse than having to hear your neighbors bicker.

New comment by hackernud3s in "Generative AI scandal has come to one of Nikon's competitions"

hackernud3s — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:20:49 +0000

I don't understand how that's possible. Photographers are just spicy primates.

New comment by hackernud3s in "US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams"

hackernud3s — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:10:58 +0000

Yeah but whey you order food it never looks quite as good as the picture in the menu.

New comment by hackernud3s in "US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams"

hackernud3s — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 01:50:18 +0000

Marketing is always misleading. It just can't be overly misleading.

New comment by hackernud3s in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

hackernud3s — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:10:00 +0000

DC ips are the worst for web browsing. You think captcha is annoying now, just wait until you try exiting through one of those.

New comment by hackernud3s in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

hackernud3s — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:05:08 +0000

You never really know though, do you? Some things are ending up in spam and you don't know which ones.

New comment by hackernud3s in "US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams"

hackernud3s — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 23:21:24 +0000

> misleading and inauthentic speech to make money

Isn't that just "marketing"?

New comment by hackernud3s in "US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams"

hackernud3s — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 23:18:41 +0000

If he's not careful he'll find himself at the bottom of Lake America.

New comment by hackernud3s in "Wood Tape (2004)"

hackernud3s — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:32:59 +0000

Yes and...

New comment by hackernud3s in "Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald"

hackernud3s — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:01:44 +0000

We don't really know if he was a conservative because he was always doing a bit. The only thing we know for sure about him is that he was a deeply closeted gay fella.

New comment by hackernud3s in "Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald"

hackernud3s — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:46:42 +0000

and the scheming

New comment by hackernud3s in "Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald"

hackernud3s — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:40:58 +0000

These Norm fans sound like real jerks.

New comment by hackernud3s in "Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald"

hackernud3s — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:39:25 +0000

WAS funny. Apparently he died. I didn't even know he was sick.