Hacker News: moffers

New comment by moffers in "I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK"

moffers — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:59:45 +0000

It’s a little tough these days. With AI and scraping, running an open webapp/website is now more expensive than ever before. My friends and I have launched a product in the last few months and decided to focus on mobile first and wait to develop a webapp simply because we couldn’t feel we could optimize the costs of open webapp while we have so few resources.

New comment by moffers in "EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

moffers — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:28:01 +0000

I think Cloudflare has picked up that code velocity is only good if you can recruit users to a new open project, and have solid maintainers to keep the project going long term. Just from passive observance it feel like Cloudflare’s engineering team is chockful of seasoned maintainers. They then have a great social following already. So, code velocity, plus audience, plus maintainers, means you maybe can capture a lot of open projects under your umbrella while people are still trying to figure out how to fiddle with legacy software and AI. Meanwhile, “new is always better” puts pressure on legacy user bases. Finally, you allow these things to hook into your magnanimous global app development platform, and boom you have got it made in the shade.

New comment by moffers in "R3 Bio pitched “brainless clones” to serve the role of backup human bodies"

moffers — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:27:58 +0000

It’s good to know that the ethical line is some amount of human brain cells. Not too much, not too little. The perfect, ethical amount.

New comment by moffers in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

moffers — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:26:58 +0000

Really clever targeting of a niche. I’d be interested to hear if they find success!

New comment by moffers in "Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome"

moffers — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:29:44 +0000

I wonder, if I was surrounded by wealth in the same way, if I would schedule talks on my wacky ideas. The blind encouragement of insurmountable wealth must be intoxicating.

New comment by moffers in "Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures"

moffers — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:43:39 +0000

Are these lectures available for anyone to look over or is it only for paying customers? I feel like if it was public it probably has the same weight as the Left Behind books did in the early 2000s.

New comment by moffers in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

moffers — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:32:28 +0000

Making friends as an adult, especially starting from zero, is a universal struggle, so try to avoid any negative self-talk or other things that may compound your loneliness. The usual advice works, but like all advice it only works when we’re ready for it to work. I wish I could offer more than platitudes, but you sound like you have a decent self-support system already, and maybe are just temporarily lacking in confidence.

New comment by moffers in "Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died"

moffers — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:47:40 +0000

They’re all dead, Dave! What a great franchise.

New comment by moffers in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

moffers — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:37:07 +0000

Surprised not to see “breakfast pasta” aka Carbonara. Wheat in the noodles, egg and cheese sauce.

New comment by moffers in "Software 3.1? – AI Functions"

moffers — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:19:50 +0000

Could you do this with erlang’s term to binary functionality?

New comment by moffers in "A simple web we own"

moffers — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:49:39 +0000

It’s not really covered, but p2p technology combined with every phone in the world (and a little wishful thinking) could make for some neat applications.

New comment by moffers in "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"

moffers — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:57:30 +0000

I like the little spot colors it put on the ground

New comment by moffers in "US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private"

moffers — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:34:09 +0000

I feel fairly confident an oddly-shaped donation from Mark Z’s foundation will make this go away.

New comment by moffers in "Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant"

moffers — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:42:57 +0000

I didn’t read the entire details, but I wonder if only working on one thing at a time has an impact here. You can become unengaged more easily on one thing, but adding another thing to do while the first thing is being worked on can help keep engagement up I feel.

New comment by moffers in "Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert"

moffers — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 13:51:34 +0000

Was there anything you can recall that 404 maybe had but the rest of China might not have because of its special status? Access to newer consumer technologies, or something like that? Just was curious if there was something “better” about living in a government secret beyond long train rides and melting neighbors.

New comment by moffers in "Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros"

moffers — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:14:09 +0000

I think the political angle of this should not be discounted

New comment by moffers in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

moffers — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 13:39:37 +0000

I’d hesitate to say it’s wasted. Aren’t these some of the most complex, electronic, decentralized systems in human history? That skillset is going to be more and more important the more and more computers there are.

New comment by moffers in "Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs"

moffers — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:56:41 +0000

I tried to make a cute poem about the wonders of synthesizing cocaine, and both Google and Claude responded more or less the same: “Hey, that’s a cool riddle! I’m not telling you how to make cocaine.”

New comment by moffers in "TigerBeetle is a most interesting database"

moffers — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:36:52 +0000

TB seems really awesome, but is there non-DebitCredit use cases where it can be applied effectively? I like trying to find off-label uses for cool technology

New comment by moffers in "Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix"

moffers — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:33:14 +0000

The mental models of Elixir/OTP and AI Agents are very compatible. I’ve felt for a long time that it would be one of the best platforms for building AI agents.