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New comment by pawelduda in "Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue"

pawelduda — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:34:06 +0000

Good choice, keep in mind that you'll probably spend more on filament rolls if you get hooked

New comment by pawelduda in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

pawelduda — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:51:43 +0000

The laptop started with Windows 7 (the best one btw). Switch to Ubuntu was done years later when I handed it over to my parents.

You are right about the Ubuntu upgrades though. Over these years I'd just randomly press update to get out of EoL'd versions when I was around. I think I just went over 4 major versions in a few hours. It just downloaded, installed and restarted without any problems. One outlier was an issue with nvidia driver packages after update, for which I had to consult google.

New comment by pawelduda in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

pawelduda — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:04:13 +0000

Turkey reported high winrate until Thanksgiving

New comment by pawelduda in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

pawelduda — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:54:02 +0000

I repeat this story every now and then but I "maintain" a 18 years old laptop with Ubuntu (mainly for Internet) for non-tech savvy user. I put it in quotes because I just run apt update every now and then - that's it. Just works. The only bottleneck is how resource-hungry browsers got over time but it remains usable. Ubuntu was installed sometime back in 2017 and there was no need for fresh reinstall since then.

New comment by pawelduda in "Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI"

pawelduda — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:21:56 +0000

You can also use "muted words" feature built right into X

New comment by pawelduda in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

pawelduda — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:59:19 +0000

50 days ago I wrote this [1] as the world seemed high on AI and it gave me crypto bubble vibe.

Since then, I've been seeing increased critique of Anthropic in particular (several front page posts on HN, especially past few days), either due to it being nerfed or just straight up eating up usage quota (which matches my personal experience). It appears that we're once again getting hit by enshittiffication of sorts.

Nowadays I rely a lot on LLMs on a daily basis for architecture and writing code, but I'm so glad that majority of my experience came from pre-AI era.

If you use these tools, make sure you don't let it atrophy your software engineering "muscles". I'm positive that in long run LLMs are here to stay. The jump in what you can now self-host, or run on consumer hardware is huge, year after year. But if your abilities rely on one vendor, what happens if you come to work one day and find out you're locked out of your swiss army knife and you can no longer outsource thinking?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066701

New comment by pawelduda in "Solana Drift Protocol drained of $285M via fake token and governance hijack"

pawelduda — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:27:34 +0000

Trusting any of these crypto protocols is hard with any serious money. If anyone wants to target you, they'll go great lengths to trick you into making a mistake. Even if you do everything right, the people behind the service can step into a mine for you. Even easier if you add AI to the pipeline where people will tend to offload the vulnerable parts of development/ops to a LLM

New comment by pawelduda in "Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit"

pawelduda — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:55:48 +0000

I bet that's the case. Crypto bros need a villain to justify being trigger-happy top buyers flooded by greed every time. Jane Street is particularly useful to KoLs who have been shilling crypto all the way down from the top. There is already strong confirmation bias from everyone yapping "See? You lost moniez because of market manipulation! I'm a successful trader (here is my paid substack and exchange reflink)"

New comment by pawelduda in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

pawelduda — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:53:47 +0000

Not disagreeing that wasn't the case, but none of these were advertised as such, they were all listed by top exchanges as any other speculative crypto asset

New comment by pawelduda in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

pawelduda — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:05:37 +0000

Memecoins especially are so funny it's worth putting out some numbers:

- $TRUMP meme coin, down 87% from ATH

- $MELANIA meme coin, down 98% from ATH

- $WLFI, down 50% from ATH, with 4 Trump co-founders

The first two coins were actually hyped up so hard at launch that they drained liquidity from most of the crypto market because of people dumping everything to buy in

New comment by pawelduda in "Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment"

pawelduda — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:10:11 +0000

Maybe they could sell the RAM reserves they've been hoarding

New comment by pawelduda in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

pawelduda — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:01:48 +0000

It's safe to assume they'll be releasing improved Gemini Flash soon? The current one is so good & fast I rarely switch to pro anymore

New comment by pawelduda in "What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI"

pawelduda — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:30:21 +0000

About the article that's referenced in the beginning - that sentiment presented in it honestly sounds like AI version of cryptocurrency euphoria just as the bubble burst. "You are not ready for what's going to happen to the economy", "crypto will replace tradfi, experts agree". The article is sitting at almost 100M views after just a week and has strong FOMO vibes. To be honest, it's very conflicting for me to believe that, because I've been using AI and compared to crypto, it doesn't just feel like magic, it also does magic. However, I can't help but think of this parallel and the possibilty that somehow the AI bubble could right now be starting to stall/regress. The only problem is that I just don't see how such a scenario would play out, given how good and useful these tools are

New comment by pawelduda in "Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse"

pawelduda — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:32:07 +0000

I thought so too, but it actually wasn't the couch, brick or whatever. It was overconfidence and mistakes that were exploited and there is no patch for that

New comment by pawelduda in "Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it"

pawelduda — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:04:45 +0000

Feels like moment that would be looked back at as the beginning of enshittification

New comment by pawelduda in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

pawelduda — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:30:09 +0000

This is also true. But once that happened, it was a sort of expectation and often necessity. People couldn't outsource as much hard work to machines, built by someone else far away from their farms

New comment by pawelduda in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

pawelduda — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:49:53 +0000

> Then please explain why birth rates throughout human history, when life was vastly more difficult and dangerous than it is now, were so much higher?

One of reasons is because more hands were needed to deal with the difficulty

New comment by pawelduda in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

pawelduda — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 18:34:06 +0000

I can tell you what a decade is but I'll have to leave the reading comprehension to you

New comment by pawelduda in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

pawelduda — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:23:07 +0000

Nothing fundamentally changed about frameworks. No need to reconsider every single practice because of AI. I think frameworks actually keep agents in check because they're trained on huge set of conventions.

I vibe coded a few of projects in vanilla JS and they eventually became mess, but with a framework they'd at least be structured mess

New comment by pawelduda in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

pawelduda — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:10:56 +0000

I think Bitcoin and major cryptos outperformed a lot of assets over the last decade, so you could say it left some people behind in the dust, yes