Hacker News: Fizz43

New comment by Fizz43 in "Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond"

Fizz43 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:17:16 +0000

In NZ we call it the walking school bus.

New comment by Fizz43 in "GPT-6 Astra"

Fizz43 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:08:17 +0000

They are crime hotspots

New comment by Fizz43 in "GPT-6 Astra"

Fizz43 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:05:28 +0000

Its AGI when it can fit years of information in the context window.

New comment by Fizz43 in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

Fizz43 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:49:01 +0000

>When Google implement an anti-user feature, Mozilla have to begrudgingly implement it

Why would ladybird be any different? The developer is not anti corporate and is closer ideologically to Google than Mozilla.

New comment by Fizz43 in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

Fizz43 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:40:44 +0000

Passing tests and has abysmal performance on basic web features. Not to mention how many security issues are present. Its unserious to suggest it as an alternative at this stage. It make people think they dont have to support firefox because there is alternatives just around the corner.

New comment by Fizz43 in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

Fizz43 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:35:13 +0000

Nothing Firefox has done is remotely comparable to chrome.

New comment by Fizz43 in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

Fizz43 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:31:56 +0000

I treat firefox the same way I treat politics. If I am around people I know understand the importance of firefox and are commited to using it then we can talk about its problems. If I am around anyone else I wont say a bad word about firefox. Why would I say a negative thing about firefox to a google chrome user, any point they make is instantly undermined by their usage of google chrome. To sit there and talk badly about firefox just reinforces their resolve in choosing google chrome.

Plus I genuinely like firefox its a great browser and I dont feel bad telling people that its good.

New comment by Fizz43 in "Mayor says 'large chunks' of Wellington council Deloitte report written by AI"

Fizz43 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:28:41 +0000

Whats the point of paying for this report if they cant even be bothered to do it. Mistakes in a 425,000 government report are unacceptable. This is what we are basing years of policy off it needs to be rock solid information. In a sane world the NZ government would never contract them again.

New comment by Fizz43 in "It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell"

Fizz43 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:41:28 +0000

That's a cool solution, im lazy and would just put a little sign asking to knock.

New comment by Fizz43 in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

Fizz43 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:05:50 +0000

Because its not clear if "we" refers to isreal or the US or Gaza

New comment by Fizz43 in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

Fizz43 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:19:22 +0000

I'm not sure what "we" or "our" is referring to here.

New comment by Fizz43 in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

Fizz43 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:17:24 +0000

Not true. It will only happen if they lose the information war. During 2023/2024 Iran did this exact same thing flooding the internet and no one hates them infact it worked and people link and share and boost their articles.

New comment by Fizz43 in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

Fizz43 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:26:15 +0000

"but that’s socialism" is part of a socialist campaign to rebrand the more palatable liberal ideas as their own so they can get into power and enact their actual policies.

New comment by Fizz43 in "HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons"

Fizz43 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:11:54 +0000

Its kind of insulting how many people look at other industries and think they can "solve" the problems with their simple solution. As if the people in these industries havent been thinking about this problem for decades.

New comment by Fizz43 in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

Fizz43 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:19:21 +0000

Firefox needs word of mouth to grow. It needs tech people and firefox users to talk positively about it. But all they do is nitpick and spread baseless FUD its no wonder users drop.

I always tell people firefox is amazing because it really is. It has cool features, it looks cool, its fast, the company behind it is awesome.

New comment by Fizz43 in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

Fizz43 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:46:20 +0000

none of this is remotely socialist

New comment by Fizz43 in "Seedance 2.5"

Fizz43 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:23:26 +0000

The masses wont be amplifying their own voices they will just be getting more propaganda.

New comment by Fizz43 in "June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more"

Fizz43 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:46:43 +0000

They are going to do all this work and then adopt the wrong tech or try and make money in the wrong way and end up with their only viable userbase constantly eternally talking them.

New comment by Fizz43 in "I Championed Prediction Markets. Look What They've Become"

Fizz43 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:18:16 +0000

>Trump Media may soon sell early access to the president’s Truth Social posts. Think about what this means. This is how the president announces war; every embassy on earth has to maintain a Truth Social account just to stay informed of American policy.

He is already so beyond the pale this doesnt even move the needle.

New comment by Fizz43 in "Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers"

Fizz43 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:17:31 +0000

>So, instead of defining a bot primarily as “AI” or not, our updated approach to classification will ask deeper questions about bot or agent behavior: What are they doing on my site? What are they storing? And how will they reshare my content?

I dont get this. The question is are they a bot or a human. It doesnt matter what they are doing I dont want bots on my site.