Hacker News: thorio

New comment by thorio in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

thorio — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:23:45 +0000

Your English is good, but the (probably smartphone keyboard) typo revealed you :-).

New comment by thorio in "OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream"

thorio — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:28:38 +0000

Well Google has activated access to Google drive, mail, etc for most users automatically (or maybe I just clicked yes sometime) and so far I think it's a net positive for me personally and don't here from any disasters publicly.

New comment by thorio in "OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream"

thorio — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:24:41 +0000

While technically this is rooted in the technological misconstruction of a missing separation of data and instructions.

However my point is: on the other hand, that would be the same if you outsourced those tasks to a human, isn't it? I mean sure, a human can be liable and have morals and (ideally) common sense, but most major screw ups can't be fixed by paying a fine and penalty only.

New comment by thorio in "Marketing for Founders"

thorio — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:52:42 +0000

You mean people already employed bot gangs to boost retention just to squeeze out some authentic human feedback juice?

New comment by thorio in "Marketing for Founders"

thorio — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:49:12 +0000

While this is directionally correct it does come down to a tonality, that I think wasn't justified in that case. But hey, it's the Internet and I'm not naive either.

New comment by thorio in "Marketing for Founders"

thorio — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:46:54 +0000

While that's true, my tool (as part of the flood) didn't originate from the same spring, it's just something I happen to be building that same way, I did before the LLM wave. It's not vibecoded SaaS fast food.

I checked community guidelines before and think regarding Reddit, this is where it should be resolve in my option.

New comment by thorio in "Marketing for Founders"

thorio — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:29:42 +0000

Sometimes time doesn't allow that for multiple communities simultaneously, but you are right. Still I think a lot of online communities are drowning in AI slob diluting the well thought about stuff that would deserve the attention.

New comment by thorio in "Marketing for Founders"

thorio — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:25:00 +0000

True story, yesterday I tried to get some feedback from an industry relevant subreddit for a real estate quick check calculation tool (automatically extracts listing data into calculation and enables sharing investment ideas). The pure mention of AI brought up a whole crowd of fed up bullies that talked it down as vibecoding trash - which it really isn't. All those places are flooded.

New comment by thorio in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

thorio — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:22:22 +0000

This sounds pretty reasonable to me. What am I missing?

New comment by thorio in "I’m joining OpenAI"

thorio — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:55:36 +0000

Maybe it still is supposed to sound fancy to say you didn't read any of the code. The guy definitely could very deeply understand, read and edit the code, he developed the industrial standard liberal for PDF editing (used by Dropbox etc).

Just saying what you want might be the future for development of some kinds of software, but this use case sure seems like a very bad idea.

I very much appreciate the vision he put into practice, but feel sorry for the project being acquihired kind of.

New comment by thorio in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

thorio — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:48:27 +0000

I challenged Gemini to answer this too, but also got the correct answer.

What came to my mind was: couldn't all LLM vendors easily fund teams that only track these interesting edge cases and quickly deploy filters for these questions, selectively routing to more expensive models?

Isn't that how they probably game benchmarks too?

New comment by thorio in "Show HN: A free online British accent generator for instant voice conversion"

thorio — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:16:35 +0000

Shows an error for me on Chrome Mobile

New comment by thorio in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

thorio — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:25:10 +0000

For what it's worth: he has been saying for years, that they were only making the S and X for nostalgic reasons.

New comment by thorio in "Claude Skills"

thorio — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:08:18 +0000

How about using some of that skills to make that page mobile ready...

New comment by thorio in "OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss"

thorio — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:45:44 +0000

I think affiliation is much more likely to be a relevant revenue stream for them in the future. Instant checkouts would be a game changer in my view. Especially for upcoming generations, that don't have the habit of scrolling the open web to get their stuff done, but are native to LLMs.

New comment by thorio in "Depression reduces capacity to learn to actively avoid aversive events"

thorio — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:59:18 +0000

Hence (for example) the doom scrolling wheel keeps spinning.

New comment by thorio in "Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults"

thorio — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 07:11:55 +0000

This is in my family too. One person always had a tendency of being overly worried and after children moved out and social life thinned or a bit, this became more prevalent.

After years of trying to push that person towards trying out new things and enriching their life, I kind of gave up. You simply cannot convince someone about a medicine if they don't feel there is a problem. Still it's hard to see believing the person could be enjoying life more, especially during their retirement.

New comment by thorio in "Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults"

thorio — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 07:06:56 +0000

I came here to say: read this book, it's really great.

I think if your depression is very deeply buried, it surely isn't enough to read it, but still it can open up quit some insights regarding the connection of what you think and how you feel. It makes it visible.

There can also be other causes for depression is course.

While studying and testing the exercises described in the book I discovered one other thing I'd like to share: to me it seems, to come out of a reappearing mental dip, you need to be very consistent in your efforts (mental / physical exercises and other habits you try to establish or change, to feel better). Anyone else?

New comment by thorio in "Our Farewell from Google Play"

thorio — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 09:39:46 +0000

Let's count the days until someone builds an AI solution that does just that and adopts existing apps to the new SDK without breaking anything or changing functionality.

Anyone already started building this? :-).

Would bring my social RSS reader back to life too. Had the exact same experience others have described here: it's not worth the time investing anymore at some point...

New comment by thorio in "I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains"

thorio — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:47:41 +0000

Sometime it's funny to look at the packages list of your domain provider and realize for example, that at some point in the past I was indeed convinced "thewienerway.com" would one day be the go to merch shop for everything around wiener dogs :-).

Okay, there were some beers involved...