Hacker News: 1zael

New comment by 1zael in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

1zael — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:17:19 +0000

We use AI to monitor hundreds of local government commissions and give real-time intelligence to B2B, residents, and governments. If you're a business trying to track what's happening in local gov for your policy, sales, or lobbying team, I'd love to chat.

New comment by 1zael in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

1zael — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:38:06 +0000

How are people still flat-earthers after stuff like this

New comment by 1zael in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

1zael — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:10:36 +0000

The order of priority for most people is: 1\ output quality 2\ latency 3\ cost. I will always pays more money if output quality is significantly better and latency is worth the tradeoff. There's also enough cost optimization strategies for applied AI applications that token cost rarely outweighs unless it's a SIGNIFICANT difference (e.x. 100-200% more).

New comment by 1zael in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

1zael — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:29:30 +0000

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New comment by 1zael in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

1zael — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:37:25 +0000

Err I just tried this with Claude and it responded: "Drive — you need the car at the car wash."

New comment by 1zael in "LLMs as the new high level language"

1zael — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 07:03:55 +0000

There's nothing novel in this article. This is what every other AI clickbait article is propagating.

New comment by 1zael in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

1zael — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:52:00 +0000

Agreed that is a valid problem, though it's solvable and IMO worth solving.

New comment by 1zael in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

1zael — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:50:56 +0000

https://deviyer.com/

New comment by 1zael in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

1zael — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:13:09 +0000

This is dumb. The solution for all music platforms should be to add a label for AI-generated tracks or artists so users clearly can disambiguate. It's frivolous to prevent someone from enjoying a piece of art whether AI or human. Furthermore, the line is blurred between what constitutes human vs AI development of music. Most producers today use pre-packaged samples, sequencers, and tracks to generate derivatives. Sure, they might manually have to mess around with Ableton to do so, but the line is already blurred.

New comment by 1zael in "There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout"

1zael — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:49:31 +0000

New comment by 1zael in "There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout"

1zael — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:10:14 +0000

Solid OSINT methodology here. The 10x AS path prepending is the most interesting detail to me b/c typically you'd see prepending used to de-prioritize a route, which raises the question: was this about making traffic avoid CANTV, or was it a side effect of something else?

A few thoughts: - The affected prefixes (200.74.224.0/20 block → Dayco Telecom) hosting banks and ISPs feels significant. If you're doing pre-kinetic intelligence gathering, knowing the exact network topology and traffic patterns of critical infrastructure would be valuable. Even a few hours of passive collection through a controlled transit point could map out dependencies you'd want to understand before cutting power. - What's also notable is the transit path through Sparkle, which the author points out doesn't implement RPKI filtering. That's not an accident if you're planning something (you'd specifically choose providers with weaker validation). - The article stops short of drawing conclusions, which is the right call. BGP anomalies are common enough that correlation ≠ causation. But the timing and the specific infrastructure affected make this worth deeper analysis.

Would love to see someone with access to more complete BGP table dumps do a before/after comparison of routing stability for Venezuelan prefixes in that window.

Show HN: Real-time SF 911 dispatch feed (open source)

1zael — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:59:18 +0000

I built an open-source alternative to Citizen App's paid 911 feed for San Francisco.

It streams live dispatch data from SF's official open data portal, uses an LLM to translate police codes into readable summaries, and auto-redacts sensitive locations (shelters, hospitals, etc.).

Built it at a hack night after getting annoyed that Citizen is the only real-time option and they paywall it.

Repo: https://github.com/midaz/sf-police-blotter Discord: https://discord.gg/KCkKeKRm

Happy to discuss the technical approach or take feedback.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46350252

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by 1zael in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

1zael — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 04:47:31 +0000

I'd love to swap notes - hmu at dev@locunity.com !

New comment by 1zael in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

1zael — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 04:00:59 +0000

Super cool! We are doing the same thing in California: https://locunity.com/

New comment by 1zael in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

1zael — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:42:49 +0000

I don't think the root cause here is AI. It's the repeated pattern of resistance to massive technological change by system-level incentives. This story has happened again and again throughout recent history.

I expect it to settle out in a few years where: 1. The fiduciary duties of company shareholders will bring them to a point of stopping to chase AI hype and instead derive an understanding of whether it's driving real top-line value for their business or not. 2. Mid to senior career engineers will have no choice but to level up their AI skills to stay relevant in the modern workforce.

New comment by 1zael in "Google Antigravity"

1zael — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 03:33:04 +0000

It's a hard sell for Cursor users using Gemini 3 to switchover to AntiGravity. There's nothing innovative they have introduced for me to switch IDEs.

New comment by 1zael in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

1zael — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:52:07 +0000

Well AWS runs on Cloudflare...so thanks Cloudflare team!

New comment by 1zael in "32 miners killed in illegal cobalt mine collapse in DRC"

1zael — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:25:58 +0000

The DRC produces more than 70 per cent of the world supply of cobalt, which is essential for batteries used in electric cars, many laptop computers and mobile phones.

More than 200,000 people are estimated to be working in giant illegal cobalt mines in the giant central African country.

32 miners killed in illegal cobalt mine collapse in DRC

1zael — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:25:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/dr-congo-mine-collapse-kills-at-least-32-official/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45951264

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by 1zael in "Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'"

1zael — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:02:25 +0000

"These models aim to replicate human reasoning and understanding of the physical world, a project LeCun has said could take a decade to mature."

What an insane time horizon to define success. I suppose he easily can raise enough capital for that kind of runway.