Hacker News: Rzor

New comment by Rzor in "George R. R. Martin Still Uses a DOS Word Processor [video]"

Rzor — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:44:45 +0000

11 years ago. Martin a few years ago gave an interview where he stated that he uses a modern PC now, assembled by one of his assistants (and I assume modern software).

New comment by Rzor in "GitHub Is Down"

Rzor — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:08:12 +0000

Soon on your favorite prediction markets.

New comment by Rzor in "Ask HN: Forced into Gemini on Google Account?"

Rzor — Sat, 02 May 2026 03:22:47 +0000

Seems so. Saw it earlier today on my mother's Samsung phone. She has no idea how to turn that on, so my guess is Google is forcing it upon everyone.

New comment by Rzor in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

Rzor — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:52:34 +0000

This is a bit related, but not precisely on top of the major topic we are discussing, but I'll say it anyway: I just got a brand new Samsung A56 for my personal use, and I just found out, like a minute ago, that I can't set a maximum battery charge (say 85%) without internet. It's asking me to turn on the WiFi. This makes no sense whatsoever. If I had to guess it's because Samsung wants to keep a profile of my battery settings and they need that telemetry, but not allowing me to set the bloody thing without internet is insane.

Another thing that happened yesterday when I was setting up the phone was the mandatory need of an internet connection, otherwise the phone would simply not allow me to move on with the setup.

I'm this fucking close to sell this thing and try my luck with a Chinese smartphone, which I'm pretty sure is not going to toss that shit on my face. (I had a Chinese one and a Galaxy S20 FE before, both on different Android versions, 10 and 11 iirc that wouldn't block me like that)

/rantOver

New comment by Rzor in "What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos's Private Retreat"

Rzor — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:12:22 +0000

https://archive.is/DA1kQ

New comment by Rzor in "[dead]"

Rzor — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:04:36 +0000

There was an engineer from OpenAI here a while ago saying that they go above and beyond to be able to offer the free access through that page. I guess they probably have to do a bunch of checks and that's starting to degrade the experience. I use chat.com a lot for quick stuff, but on my end I haven't noticed any difference whatsoever.

Edit: Found the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47567575 (alleged engineer, I guess)

>Hey! I'm Nick, and I work on Integrity at OpenAI. These checks are part of how we protect our first-party products from abuse like bots, scraping, fraud, and other attempts to misuse the platform.

>A big reason we invest in this is because we want to keep free and logged-out access available for more users. My team’s goal is to help make sure the limited GPU resources are going to real users.

>We also keep a very close eye on the user impact. We monitor things like page load time, time to first token and payload size, with a focus on reducing the overhead of these protections. For the majority of people, the impact is negligible, and only a very small percentage may see a slight delay from extra checks. We also continuously evaluate precision so we can minimize false positives while still making abuse meaningfully harder.

And your exact complaint being made 20 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47567689

New comment by Rzor in "UFO-linked scientist who warned 'my life is in danger' found dead at 34"

Rzor — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:05:25 +0000

I sure flat-earthers can give you a plethora of reasons, but if you want one of them, just watch this particular bit: https://youtu.be/Q7yvvq-9ytE?t=1514

Spoiler: According to her, it's money. They make a lot of money on that lie.

Of course, that raises a few more questions, but I don't think it's worth the follow-up.

Here's a little trivia for you I learnt on that video: we are ball-earthers. lol

New comment by Rzor in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

Rzor — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:19:46 +0000

Your comment reminds me of the FTP/Dropbox one.

New comment by Rzor in "Trump will begin blockade of Strait of Hormuz within hours"

Rzor — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:48:50 +0000

Is he trying to pressure Europe into a joint action on Iran? Or in their calculus hurting China and Iran remains viable despite the blowback in the US? We don't have the whole picture, of course, but right now this only makes sense if to confuse your enemy you must shoot yourself in the foot first while singing Kumbaya.

New comment by Rzor in "Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?"

Rzor — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:00:56 +0000

For regulatory capture, of course. They are not fooling me. There may be other motives, and the more ever-doom-looking crowd can find something in it for themselves as well, but you don't have to dig any deeper if you are looking for an explanation for the perspective of the people actually building it.

The Chinese tech sector popularizing cheap and open source models sure did a number on that narrative, too. Llama models, a while ago, too.

New comment by Rzor in "Show HN: Web game, an AI decides if you would survive in a survival situation"

Rzor — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:42:02 +0000

Oh, come on, you give me the option the copy paste my run when I lose, but not when I win? Not cool.

https://i.imgur.com/m8jMVNa.png

New comment by Rzor in "Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?"

Rzor — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:25:47 +0000

If I remember correctly, Gurgeh's internal narrative reveals what he observes in one of the secret channels that are restricted to the upper class. Unpleasant is quite the understatement. lol But yeah, I don't think we actually see it firsthand, it's more disturbing than gory.

New comment by Rzor in "Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?"

Rzor — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:40:58 +0000

Some of Player of Games, too. Use of Weapons has a creative piece of furniture. You gotta excuse Banks, he was also a horror writer.

New comment by Rzor in "Israel Strikes Oil Facilities in Iran"

Rzor — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:53:36 +0000

Exactly. I very much doubt Israel is willing to entertain the possibility that a new Iranian government won't have any "animosity" towards them.

New comment by Rzor in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

Rzor — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:30:15 +0000

To give 24 some credit, it showed some Americans as complicit in the terrorism or corruption in the story. ZDT also touched on how torture wasn't as effective as assumed. I agree that the broader themes often feel biased/propagandized, framing the anti-hero, who's basically acting as a proxy for the government, as justified at almost any cost.

New comment by Rzor in "Project Helix, the next Xbox console is announced"

Rzor — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:28:55 +0000

I guess Sony was expecting exactly that, since they recently pulled back from releasing games on PC.

New comment by Rzor in "OpenAI Amends A.I. Deal with The Pentagon"

Rzor — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:39:05 +0000

I think they know better than pick a fight with this administration.

New comment by Rzor in "I built a small movie guessing browser game using AI – looking for feedback"

Rzor — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:41:26 +0000

Haha, that was fun. https://i.imgur.com/NBFytY3.png (it has spoilers of which shots the game is using)

I don't have many suggestions besides these:

1. Let the user choose between short, medium and long runs, say 10, 20 and 30 movies.

2. To make this more challenging, ensure the selection includes either exclusively black & white movies, exclusively color movies or a balanced mix of both. 12 Angry Men was easy to identify as it was the only one as such.

3. Perhaps create another ranking for "speedruns" (and differently sized runs).

4. Given that account creation can be a huge barrier for some users, state upfront that you are only requiring username and password.

Also, for some reason I couldn't copy and paste these suggestions in the textarea.

New comment by Rzor in "After Tim Cruise Fighting Brad Pitt Goes Viral, MPAA Denounces Seedance 2.0"

Rzor — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:26:56 +0000

I suspect these Chinese models already "struggle" to generate anything remotely similar to that.

New comment by Rzor in "Elon Musk's xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours"

Rzor — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:43:08 +0000

I wonder how volatile SpaceX's stock will be given the usual imbroglio Twitter tends to generate under Musk. Talking to a friend and he said "the same as Tesla", but maybe now it's a little bit different since they (SpaceX and Twitter) are one and the same? I guess we'll find out.