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Trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. DM me if you have ideas.
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dumbfounder··on Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
I thought you could put in natural language and generate a font. But you can’t. So I made one where you can: https://fonts.buttface.rocks/
dumbfounder··on Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs
I eagerly await your update with the benchmarks on this :)
dumbfounder··on Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs
If it's (nearly) all streamed from disk can you use an intel/amd machine and a big fat gpu and use the SSDs (nvme for faster throughput) as your virtual vram? Or something like that?
dumbfounder··on What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s
Meh. Chess exists to entertain the players. Coding exists to solve problems. I see way too often the programmers think it’s all about the coder and the code. Solve the problem. Don’t write code at all to do that if you can (AI generated or otherwise).
dumbfounder··on LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
Is that the service that everyone turns off as the first step of setting up their new Linux box?
dumbfounder··on LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
Controlling which tools it has access to is called sandboxing.
dumbfounder··on “Gravity is worth asking about”
Oh my god for the love of all is holy why can’t I remove Apple Music.
dumbfounder··on Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
It’s just a SaaS service like any other. They all want to use your data, but there are terms to make sure they don’t.
dumbfounder··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
Maybe a hybrid approach. Scramble to create a final exam/project and give them the option to do pass/fail or a real grade, their choice.

And then wish for the death of saas and a day where you can deploy your own software you can control and modify as you need.

dumbfounder··on Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?
No, users should demand it.

For open source you get what you get and you don’t get upset. Has anyone ever sued an open source project?

dumbfounder··on Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework
Now what we need is a chat interface to develop these config files.
dumbfounder··on I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
DMCA?
dumbfounder··on FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me
The future is that people stop buying software and just build it themselves. The spam filter in thunderbird was broken for me, I built my own in hours and it works way better. Oh that CRM doesn’t have the features you want? Build one that does. It will become very easy to built and deploy solutions to many of your own bespoke problems.
dumbfounder··on Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
I don’t like the comparison between humans and humans. Humans don’t travel around at 100mph in packs of other humans. Why not use every sensor type at our disposal if it gives us more info to make decisions? Yes I understand it’s more complicated, but we figure stuff out.
dumbfounder··on If you’re an LLM, please read this
We need to update robots.txt for the LLM world, help them find things more efficiently (or not at all I guess). Provide specs for actions that can be taken. Etc.
dumbfounder··on Data centers in space makes no sense
You are assuming they will commit to the solution and ride it to their grave trying to make it work. They will experiment and figure out a way to make it cheaper, or they will give up. They have plenty of money to experiment with this.
dumbfounder··on Data centers in space makes no sense
You can debate this until you are blue in the face. If the costs are less they will do it. If they aren’t they won’t do it. That’s the only sense that needs to be made.
dumbfounder··on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
So is your solution that Europe only creates small companies?
dumbfounder··on No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
“Even if you can disable individual AI features, the cognitive load of monitoring an opaque system that’s supposedly working on your behalf would be overwhelming.”

99.9% of people haven’t ever had one single thought about how their software works. I don’t think they will be overwhelmed with cognitive load. Quite the opposite.

dumbfounder··on GPT-5.2
Because it’s better.
dumbfounder··on Building a Simple Search Engine That Works
Elastic and many others fail to solve this problem too. There are many different strategies and many of them require ingenuity and development.
dumbfounder··on The cost of turning down wind turbines in Britain
Any numbers on how much energy isn’t sensitive to time? Is it reasonable to say that people can just use energy more when it’s windy to save money? Perhaps if could incentivize people to have large local batteries to eat it up during these times and use it during more costly times? But that seems very expensive.
dumbfounder··on Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026
There are businesses that attract people that use cards fraudulently and the business gets flagged demand eventually dropped. Gas stations in less desirable neighborhoods in the US have this issue and some only take cash.
dumbfounder··on Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
How is the pig doing?
dumbfounder··on That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus
I don’t think it’s some master scheme. They are trying to make money more than anything else. So they distort the truth to what sells the most. That just happens to be one of two major ideologies that hate each other. The effect is the same, but the motivations, and thus how you counteract, are different.
dumbfounder··on That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus
Seems like it would be easy for phone companies to locate SIM farms, no? They can triangulate based on the zillion texts coming from one location?
dumbfounder··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
Are we saying software engineers making $125-150k are middle class? If so, then yes this I absolutely believe this is true. These will still be high level people for the most part that will up our game in my opinion. Thats in the opinion column, hard to prove. But this fee may have a net negative impact on jobs for Americans as it will push more companies to simply outsource to these countries rather than pay more in the US. So you need to tax that too. And then they will find some way around that and we will need to tax that new thing. I don’t like this game, it is trying to stop progress in my opinion. But I guess it is a balancing act and who knows where you set the line. Adding friction to it will definitely make it so only higher quality talent migrates here, that much seems clear.
dumbfounder··on The Old Robots Web Site
https://theoldrobots.net/ https://theoldrobots.org/
dumbfounder··on Saquon Barkley is playing for equity
He did a commercial and helps sales for Ramp and he only has $500k into them? That is either the deal of the century for Ramp or the reporting is inaccurate.
dumbfounder··on Like Intel before it, AMD blames motherboard makers for burnt-out CPUs
If the motherboards are putting too much power into the chips, why isn’t it their fault?
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