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danduma··on Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service
As a speaker of Romanian, loving the name

("floci" means "pubes")

danduma··on I, for one, can't wait to join the permanent underclass
Financial advice? :D
danduma··on I, for one, can't wait to join the permanent underclass
Not a particularly new thing in history, but the underclass have a certain habit of rising up and guillotining the ultra rich
danduma··on I, for one, can't wait to join the permanent underclass
I guess they're not irrational in their aspirations! Would you want to have to hide from angry crowds with torches and pitchforks?

My logic is that once it's cheap enough to provide for the needs of the many, it's a sensible investment.

danduma··on I, for one, can't wait to join the permanent underclass
Ah, great to read I made the cut! :D

I have to disagree that post-labor necessarily means post-capital. Production requires multiple other scarce inputs, which is why I also make the explicit assumption in the post of significantly accelerated scientific progress that will also reduce the cost of energy, externalities, etc

danduma··on A Journey Through Infertility
The website is great!

Many of my friends have gone through IVF and still I was surprised by some weird parts of the story.

For example: "I was stabbed with 932 needles" and when you tap you find out "because I wanted to improve my odds, I went to 31 acupuncture appointments, where 687 needles pierced my underbelly, legs and head".

It is clearly established that acupuncture is placebo, but beyond whether this placebo might actually improve the odds (highly disputed), it is an elective alternative procedure with unclear benefit, not part of a standard IVF journey.

I understand the story is a very personal one, but it would be good to remember it isn't necessarily representative of most people's experience.

danduma··on You Only Debug Once? Think Again
How good are the top frontier LLMs at finding bugs? I ran a small experiment to find out — and yes, the results surprised me!
danduma··on I use Claude Code, Codex and Gemini 3 Pro all together
No single model is perfect. The combination of these 3 gets close.
danduma··on Kraków, Poland in top 5 worst air quality worldwide
But... how?
danduma··on What normal life is like around the world, from Kenya to Ukraine
Watch everyday life in hundreds of homes on all income levels across the world, to counteract the media’s skewed selection of images of other places.
danduma··on Spotify: Droppin' Some Fake Beats
Spotify (like other streaming services) pays about 70% of its revenue to the rights holders of the music it plays.

AI music means near-zero cost of goods sold so the full 70% can turn into profit. The incentive is so strong that it's a certainty waiting to happen.

danduma··on Show HN: I copied Google Calendar and added 4 features
Super interesting! I've been wanting to use Google calendar to also track daily habits and they time they take but it's super clunky for that with too much manual effort.

Your interface might just be what I'm after, will check it out :)

danduma··on More than 100 arrested in Spain in $900k WhatsApp scheme
My mother fell for exactly this scam, thankfully was able to cancel the transaction just in time and gave evidence to the police. Funny to see on HN something that touches one so close.

The most fascinating thing here is the lack of sophistication of the approach. No fake images or audio or anything.

I'm worried about the new wave of impersonation scams that's coming thanks to voice cloning.

danduma··on Scientists may have found mechanism behind cognitive decline in aging
IN MICE
danduma··on Show HN: TurboPilot: Copilot clone runs code completion LLM on your CPU
Nice, but "Tabby requires Pascal or newer NVIDIA GPU."

As I understand the whole point of TurboPilot is it runs on CPU :D