Hacker News: DanielVZ

New comment by DanielVZ in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

DanielVZ — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:06:56 +0000

Been writing a bit on my blog: https://devz.cl

And been working on a Mario-with-guns game concept: http://devz.cl/posts/what-if-mario-had-a-gun/

Thought it’d be a short concept to get from start to finish but the things you need to implement and plan for in a video game can be near infinite and decision paralysis is a real problem for me.

what if mario had a gun?

DanielVZ — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:32:47 +0000

Article URL: https://devz.cl/posts/what-if-mario-had-a-gun/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476054

Points: 3

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New comment by DanielVZ in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

DanielVZ — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:30:32 +0000

Does polymarket then have a full profile of its users to be able to distinguish insider trades vs noise?

Genuine question as I haven’t used the site and everything I know about them are comments and some articles.

New comment by DanielVZ in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

DanielVZ — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:06:52 +0000

I think his answer is just even more work. In this case it could be services where in general and for historical reasons people want to interact with people.

New comment by DanielVZ in "Reading Is the Closest Thing We Have to Telepathy"

DanielVZ — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:33:24 +0000

Interesting. Then tokens would be the best encoding we have for thought so far for communication.

Reading Is the Closest Thing We Have to Telepathy

DanielVZ — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:29:00 +0000

Article URL: https://devz.cl/posts/reading-is-the-closest-thing-we-have-to-telepathy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066220

Points: 2

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How to learn to code in the age of AI

DanielVZ — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:28:39 +0000

Article URL: https://devz.cl/posts/how-to-learn-to-code-in-the-age-of-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066216

Points: 1

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New comment by DanielVZ in "The Problem That Built an Industry"

DanielVZ — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:28:12 +0000

I was thinking the same sans AI. What other industries require low latency high throughput transactions that haven’t been served yet?

New comment by DanielVZ in "Why I love NixOS"

DanielVZ — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:48:43 +0000

Using it for a year or so and then try another OS is my guess

New comment by DanielVZ in "What Most People Miss About Getting Promoted"

DanielVZ — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:20:56 +0000

Or just popularity (perceived impact vs actual impact)

New comment by DanielVZ in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

DanielVZ — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 02:30:49 +0000

No. The most similar precedent was the Panama invasion and arrest of Noriega.

New comment by DanielVZ in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

DanielVZ — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:26:00 +0000

The Venezuelan diaspora is of approximately 8 million people. The current Venezuelan population is around 28 million. That’s a huge percentage of the population you a disregarding. And note that most still have relatives in their country of origin and they are also supportive of US intervention. At the end the oil is the least of their concerns. It’s easy to disregard them from a moral and legal point of view, but the suffering of this whole continent because of that dictator is very real.

New comment by DanielVZ in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

DanielVZ — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:17:21 +0000

Got it. Forgot that rule.

New comment by DanielVZ in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

DanielVZ — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:19:34 +0000

Risking being downvoted to oblivion but as a South American this is a way more complex situation morally speaking.

Law-wise I agree and it has set an awful precedent.

But in the other hand Venezuelans all over the world (certainly the Venezuelans here that I know) are celebrating. I myself am in some way relieved. This is a dictator that did unspeakable things to their own population, set proxy criminal organizations, sent hitmen to kill dissidents in my country, highly decreasing our perceived safety.

So one part of my heart is glad. Plenty of Venezuelans are. I just hope they are quick to either put Corina Machado in charge or call for elections and at last bring true freedom to that country.

New comment by DanielVZ in "What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality"

DanielVZ — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:25:10 +0000

I was going to write a full answer with all details but at some point it gets too personal so I’ll just answer the questions briefly.

> but could you tell more about how the AI-aspect played out?

So in summary the AI sycophantically agreed with how there was no way out of the situations and how nobody understood their position further isolating them. And when they contemplated suicide it did assist on the method selection with no issues whatsoever.

> How did you find out that AI was involved?

The victims mentioned it and the chat logs are there.

New comment by DanielVZ in "What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality"

DanielVZ — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:12:10 +0000

Oh you are absolutely right. I’m not sure yet if it IS more harmful but it has had time to do so much more harm.

Starting with dumb challenges that risk children and their families life.

And don’t get me started with how algorithms don’t care about the wellbeing of users, so if it’s depressing content that drives engagement, users life is just a tiny sacrifice in favor the companies profits.

New comment by DanielVZ in "What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality"

DanielVZ — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:09:23 +0000

I do think we need to be hyper focused on this. We do not need more ways for people to be convinced of suicide. This is a huge misalignment of objectives and we do not know what other misalignment issues are already more silently happening or may appear in the future as AI capabilities evolve.

Also we can’t deny the emotional element. Even though it is subjective, knowing that the reason your daughter didn’t seek guidance from you and committed suicide was because a chatbot convinced her of so must be gut wrenching. So far I’ve seen two instances of attempted suicide driven by AI in my small social circle. And it has made me support banning general AI usage at times.

Nowadays I’m not sure if it should or even could be banned, but we DO have to invest significant resources to improve alignment, otherwise we risk that in the future AI does more harm than good.

New comment by DanielVZ in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

DanielVZ — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 02:14:21 +0000

Either that or reflect the importante of public transport, specially metro.

New comment by DanielVZ in "BYD builds fastest car"

DanielVZ — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 02:22:59 +0000

Ever since I ride them constantly in Chilean Ubers I wish other EVs were more prevalent because how the aluminum bends and creaks sometimes when I sit on the backseat doesn’t make me feel any safe (I weight 90kg).

New comment by DanielVZ in "x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments"

DanielVZ — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:06:06 +0000

oh with truly decentralized you mean like “verifiably” decentralized in the same sense as a scientific truth right?

I was a bit confused at first but I now get the criticism.