Hacker News: Z_Zhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Z_ZHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 12 Jul 2026 03:20:51 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by Z_Z in "How Samba Was Written (2003)"]]>only meant it in tongue-in-cheek jest. the "gros mots" in Québécois french are firmly rooted in the culture and liberally applied. though I guess the same could be said about any language's swear words now that I'm thinking it out loud

]]>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:27:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46551797Z_Zhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46551797https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46551797<![CDATA[New comment by Z_Z in "How Samba Was Written (2003)"]]>better off moving to Québec. enables a more passive approach

]]>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:09:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46551657Z_Zhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46551657https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46551657<![CDATA[New comment by Z_Z in "[dead]"]]>author reads like an LLM. I'm content chalking this up to AI-generated psychosis

]]>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:43:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070282Z_Zhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070282https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070282<![CDATA[New comment by Z_Z in "23words.com"]]>agreed, an endless mode would be nice. perhaps it's not implemented by-design to keep us coming back - it's certainly going to work on me. opening the game in a new private tab will let you make another attempt :)

]]>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:19:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40638446Z_Zhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40638446https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40638446<![CDATA[New comment by Z_Z in "My favorite database shirts"]]>leave it to hackernews to debate the semantics of figures of speech

]]>Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:17:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38434136Z_Zhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38434136https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38434136<![CDATA[New comment by Z_Z in "The Preppers Were Right All Along"]]>"this is becoming more mainstream, therefore it is correct" is arguably the foundation of analyzing any market trend

interpretation of the meaning of correct is left as an exercise to the reader

]]>Sun, 06 Nov 2022 16:38:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33494366Z_Zhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33494366https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33494366<![CDATA[New comment by Z_Z in "Montreal is what North America could be"]]>something the author doesn't point out is new development in Montreal. you can see the patch of green to the east of the Montreal housing map where Griffontown and North Verdun (the more recently developed areas of the city) are moving towards condo style housing. rent prices have been trending higher too, but I suppose you could say that about the rest of the country too.

not criticizing the post, and it's one of my favourite cities to live. but the problems are coming here too.

]]>Fri, 30 Sep 2022 20:20:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33040239Z_Zhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33040239https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33040239<![CDATA[New comment by Z_Z in "Cannabis legalization decreases stock market value of major pharmaceutical firms"]]>it's true though, everything you can consume has an effect on you not unlike pharmaceuticals. we just classify them differently. and as a corollary, anyone that can make money off of that effect, will

]]>Fri, 02 Sep 2022 17:03:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32693104Z_Zhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32693104https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32693104