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New comment by mrdependable in "Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?"

mrdependable — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:34:08 +0000

Do some freelancing to see what problems people will pay you to solve, then figure out if it is a good problem to solve at scale.

New comment by mrdependable in "The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs"

mrdependable — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:07:02 +0000

Dropshipping is just logistics. There is a lot of dropshipping that has nothing to do with ordering off Alibaba.

New comment by mrdependable in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

mrdependable — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:16:29 +0000

Those upsides are currently just a fantasy and ignore the very real current downsides. They also do not in any way rely on AI to become a reality.

New comment by mrdependable in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

mrdependable — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:06:43 +0000

It would be difficult, but not necessarily THAT difficult. With enough pushback from the public, AI would start getting regulated in meaningful ways. The problem is too many people love it, and see no problem with it. Because the momentum and money is on their side, it feels like it is impossible. Maybe things will turn out fine and we will just live in a similar but more depressing future, but if the pro-AI crowd gets bit and changes sides that could be a turning point.

New comment by mrdependable in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs"

mrdependable — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:14:02 +0000

That's true, too. I guess we will see if executive pay and credentials start going down. They could technically have AI make all the decisions while someone just plays the patsy.

New comment by mrdependable in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs"

mrdependable — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:22:34 +0000

I think the reason AI isn't going to replace CEOs, or anyone in the C suite, is pretty obvious. They see themselves as the company. Everyone else is a resource. AI is here to replace resources, just like investing in a brand new lawn mower. For them, replacing an executive with AI is like saying you're going to marry a broom.

New comment by mrdependable in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work"

mrdependable — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:05:10 +0000

Care to provide any examples of what sort of content are in these conversations you had with AI?

New comment by mrdependable in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

mrdependable — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:02:31 +0000

I was thinking more like Blackwater, not standard security.

New comment by mrdependable in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

mrdependable — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:59:38 +0000

More likely he will have a new contract with some private security firm.

New comment by mrdependable in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

mrdependable — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:05:13 +0000

It's interesting seeing all the ChatGPT users in this thread, knowing what we know about OpenAI. Either they don't care about what OpenAI does, don't know their reputation, or feel like their use is too insignificant to matter.

New comment by mrdependable in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

mrdependable — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:28:44 +0000

They were trying to keep the facade up until they were allowed to become a public benefit corporation. At least that's the way it seemed to me. Now they are fully mask off.

New comment by mrdependable in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

mrdependable — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:50:37 +0000

Funny how quickly they have become like every other tech company. There is basically no hint of OpenAI the non-profit anymore.

Edit: Why did this go from their press release to a news story?

New comment by mrdependable in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

mrdependable — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:12:44 +0000

I think the problem is more with using PRIVATE repos. My letters are also private and I would be pretty pissed if the mail carrier was reading them. Why does GitHub think it has the right to do this?

New comment by mrdependable in "Goodbye to Sora"

mrdependable — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:28:37 +0000

My guess is that we are going to see a new uber expensive video generation tool from them aimed at filmmakers in the next year.

New comment by mrdependable in "Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning"

mrdependable — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:32:10 +0000

I think we are, in fact, getting dumber.

New comment by mrdependable in "Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Polls Find"

mrdependable — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:13:33 +0000

I thought some of those polling numbers would be higher. Do people really think it serves a purpose for tech companies to hold ALL the wealth? People must have heard a bit about economics in high school and figured there was no need to think critically beyond that.

New comment by mrdependable in "Ask HN: Why is there a lack of useful use cases for OpenClaw?"

mrdependable — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:15:44 +0000

There are a lot of useful cases for OpenClaw, just like there are use cases for letting my dog drive my car. Still don’t let my dog drive though.

New comment by mrdependable in "Can I run AI locally?"

mrdependable — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:25:05 +0000

This is great, I've been trying to figure this stuff out recently.

One thing I do wonder is what sort of solutions there are for running your own model, but using it from a different machine. I don't necessarily want to run the model on the machine I'm also working from.

New comment by mrdependable in "Ask HN: Anyone else feel this community has changed recently?"

mrdependable — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:20:25 +0000

You’re not alone. I was wondering recently why I keep coming back here. The community that made it interesting seems to have moved on as popularity has taken off. Your typical tech worker has also changed as well which is likely part of the reason it doesn’t feel the same.

Ask HN: How do you keep your data private?

mrdependable — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:22:08 +0000

I feel a bit paranoid now with the services I use. It seems like everyone is trying to harvest everything I do for AI training. For example, if I start using Notion, are they going to use everything to train some AI of theirs? I'm assuming Figma is training on what people create. It seems like Microsoft is going to be training on everything done using Recall.

It really shouldn't be so easy as burying an agreement in the terms somewhere to gain ownership over your data, but that's the way it is now. Where do we go from here? How do we use computers connected to the web while still maintaining privacy?

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