<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: johndhi</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=johndhi</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:12:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=johndhi" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johndhi in "Kill The Cookie Banner"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>how about:
-if we really don't like targeted advertising, just outlaw it
-then let websites do whatever they want with our cookies so long as they aren't targeted advertising<p>instead of building websites and writing laws over the span of decades that just seem to want to ban targeted advertising but don't actually do it. FFS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:36:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060348</link><dc:creator>johndhi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060348</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johndhi in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good Lord I hadn't ever heard of the mai lai massacre. Just spend 10 mins reading about it. Christ.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:14:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995992</link><dc:creator>johndhi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995992</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johndhi in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is Gemma worse?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:13:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995988</link><dc:creator>johndhi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995988</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johndhi in "Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good idea! I'd never heard that. Very interesting.<p>But wouldn't this help china build models just as good as ours immediately? Wouldn't it make the investment in training a model worth a lot less?</p>
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<p>I don't really think this necessarily means demand is limited.<p>It just means demand is consolidating to winners. There's no denying openai and anthropic and maybe Google have a ton of demand.  The fact that xai and meta do not does not mean no demand exists.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:28:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759742</link><dc:creator>johndhi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759742</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johndhi in "Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good take! I buy it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:26:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759720</link><dc:creator>johndhi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759720</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johndhi in "Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's obsolete for training but is it obsolete for inference?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:26:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759711</link><dc:creator>johndhi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759711</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johndhi in "What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gemini says: "It would cost approximately $6.25 to $30.00 to have Claude Opus 4.6 respond to 10,000 emails, assuming a typical 200-word input and 50-word output per email."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:21:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689235</link><dc:creator>johndhi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johndhi in "Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>is "we didn't copy the code" NOTA</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:29:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687831</link><dc:creator>johndhi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johndhi in "What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What makes it expensive to reply to an email?<p>Customer service software regularly uses AI responses for email. Is the issue that your agent using the claw for more than needed (like it's clicking send rather than just accessing an API?)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:04:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48685662</link><dc:creator>johndhi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48685662</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48685662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johndhi in "Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Huh? Limited uptime means you can't write projects with it? I assume downtime means you can't host on it ...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:37:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651020</link><dc:creator>johndhi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651020</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johndhi in "Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Who doesn't call stoicism Roman?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:43:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597069</link><dc:creator>johndhi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johndhi in "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Which vendor would you rather use in this context, with your sensitive customer data?
-vendor A's list of sub-processors is a mile long and includes providers of questionable repute;
-vendor B's list is short and includes AWS and GCP</p>
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<p>Agreed with this until the last sentence, haha! I recently have been building throwaway apps and it has helped me scratch a bucket list itch I've had since childhood. Father is a programmer but I could never figure it out until vibe coding.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 16:29:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347053</link><dc:creator>johndhi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347053</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johndhi in "Thornton Wilder's Last Play Vanished into Thin Air. Or Did It?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Spurred by a line in Vonnegut that 'Our Town is the best piece of writing in history," I recently read Wilder's three most famous plays. They're all fantastic.
 Our Town is indeed my favorite. I haven't seen it produced - weirdly plays usually don't do it for me - but the joy of the unusual format and fhf remarkable third act really brought out the feels for me. Recommended reading!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 16:24:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346993</link><dc:creator>johndhi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346993</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johndhi in "Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is such a dumb topic to me - and I work closely to this issue. The blog post talks about criminal surveillance and gag order possibilities - but has no examples of these being meaningfully applied. Eu govt also spies on citizens.<p>Obviously the true political point is the geopolitical security risk of depending on another country. There's some truth there but really  all countries depend on all others and the way to balance it is to use and grow the trading leverage you do have, not trying to shore up your weaknesses.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 19:07:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339629</link><dc:creator>johndhi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339629</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johndhi in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Huge fan as a kid and enjoyed even the disc world computer game. But when I pick it up now I find the writing too ponderous to enjoy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 13:07:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247347</link><dc:creator>johndhi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247347</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johndhi in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>20% is a crazy number. This is scary, as someone who works in this industry.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 11:45:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061745</link><dc:creator>johndhi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061745</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johndhi in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>why?<p>I'm interested to know, WHY is PC so open? what led to that?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 19:27:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053702</link><dc:creator>johndhi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053702</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johndhi in "How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I guess I'm the lone person who likes Sacks here.<p>I do think it's probably true that his influence flagged after Mythos. But he'd already been moved to the science board when that dropped.<p>It's very over stated and looking to act like he was fired, which he wasn't.<p>An article about a person 'falling out of favor' is  silly but I guess that's the vibe of the administration so fair enough.</p>
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