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New comment by Zoo3y in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

Zoo3y — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:40:13 +0000

Interesting concept. I would like to read this in an epub file outside of amazon if you're willing to accept outside payment.

New comment by Zoo3y in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

Zoo3y — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:58:16 +0000

A local-first, obsidian-inspired Grimoire that writes its own md files https://grimnotes.lovable.app/

New comment by Zoo3y in "What's gonna happen to software engineers?"

Zoo3y — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:00:22 +0000

>after writing all this, I think these categories are a lot more about "what got you into this" rather than what you actually end up doing in this space.

>Nevertheless, my point here was to show a few of the ideas and directions I've been considering, and I'm keen to hear from others what you're thinking about too.

I decided to study computer science in college as a hopeful 18 year old who wanted to learn how video games work and maybe work for a development studio. I needed to find a job right after college, and I ended up going the full stack route. 10 years later (now) I'm working remote, making decent salary, but never fulfilled my original purpose for studying computer science. What's gonna happen to this software engineer? Anecdotally, I'll ride my IT job as long as I can while using AI to learn about game development.

New comment by Zoo3y in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

Zoo3y — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 04:16:29 +0000

My simple blog where I share writings and book quotes. https://www.twinsandthecrab.com/p/homepage.html

New comment by Zoo3y in "Why aren't smart people happier?"

Zoo3y — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 22:34:16 +0000

Appreciate the author mentioning Thoreau. I would also include Bertrand Russell who wrote "The Conquest of Happiness". Highly recommended read. I made a blog post of my favorite excerpt: https://www.twinsandthecrab.com/2021/12/quote-from-conquest-...

New comment by Zoo3y in "Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?"

Zoo3y — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 06:09:15 +0000

Agreed, it's possible to still like programming as a hobby despite its commodification in the larger scheme of things. Ycombinator in a nutshell.

New comment by Zoo3y in "Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?"

Zoo3y — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 05:58:55 +0000

Dissent from who, Mastodon? Brother, Mastodon the entity cannot intervene by design. Different admins run each instance and they decide who is excluded. This doesn't go against federated system; it's the system at work.

New comment by Zoo3y in "Ask HN: I’m Lost. Help?"

Zoo3y — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 06:36:44 +0000

You don't sound lost, but you do sound bored. Dive into a non work related hobby. If I was rich and married I'd do as much as I can to learn, teach, and collect art. None of us would be able to tell you what is important to you.

New comment by Zoo3y in "Not getting a new computer"

Zoo3y — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 03:37:53 +0000

Cities:Skylines is the one. I really love the transport systems it has. Mods take it to the next level https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yITr127KZtQ

New comment by Zoo3y in "Not getting a new computer"

Zoo3y — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 17:06:51 +0000

I've been using the same cloud gpu service as well for about 2 months. It's able to run on Manjaro installed through snap. The service picks up input pretty well, including audio from your mic, but like the author said it will depend on the speed of your internet connection. The audio/video resolution will adjust so sometimes it looks and sounds like a 480p youtube video. It has been very pleasant to use for a city-building game I enjoy playing. I'm more inclined to try other sim-like games since I don't have to worry about storage. It uses Steam and other game marketplace accounts to check if you own the games you want to play. It may not be good for multiplayer games like cs:go or dota; I've been disconnected from a match and since the game is running on cloud I'm still "connected" in-game appearing as afk.

Overall, I've been pleased with the service and plan to use it on a laptop for an upcoming vacation. Of course, nothing beats having a bare-metal GPU. I don't play as much as I used to anymore, so it's definitely a viable service for people who are sunsetting their interest in video games and do not want to pay for a gaming rig.

New comment by Zoo3y in "Ask HN: Where do you find weird and wonderful future tech nowadays?"

Zoo3y — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 16:11:56 +0000

seconding this. sustainable power and minimal, human-centric tech is the future.

New comment by Zoo3y in "100 years of whatever this will be"

Zoo3y — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 18:31:18 +0000

and perhaps more frustrating to smart people looking to do good realize they are just one person. Huge, structural changes to society involve everyone.

New comment by Zoo3y in "Ask HN: Fiction about Introverts?"

Zoo3y — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 01:42:14 +0000

Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse (who also wrote Siddhartha) deals directly with a scholar who struggles with human interaction until he falls for a mysterious woman in a jazz bar. The first half of the book details internal suffering and can be a bit heavy, but the second half is filled with good dialogue about protagonist pushing through his understanding of himself.

New comment by Zoo3y in "The intellectual incoherence of cryptoassets"

Zoo3y — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 22:02:18 +0000

>And finally there’s the claim that crypto assets are like art. Essentially Satoshi’s whitepaper is a piece of performance art split into 21 million pieces as a parody of hypercapitalism or to make a political statement about anarcho-capitalism.

Isn't this a misunderstanding on the author's part? The claim that some crypto assets are treated as 'art' is not as a performance piece of Satoshi's work, but in form of NFTs on OpenSea (as an example) that utilize Ethereum as the exchange platform.

New comment by Zoo3y in "Let’s Talk About Hot Tub Streams"

Zoo3y — Fri, 21 May 2021 20:11:44 +0000

Twitch put it succinctly here:

>Prohibiting every form of content that could be interpreted as suggestive would also result in far more restrictions on the video games and premium content that we currently allow, especially considering the ways that female characters are sometimes objectified or presented in a sexualized manner.

New comment by Zoo3y in "Ask HN: How are you implementing membership/auth for your SaaS or other project?"

Zoo3y — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 23:58:15 +0000

https://memberstack.webflow.io/

New comment by Zoo3y in "Police bust 'biggest' video-game-cheat operation"

Zoo3y — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:32:05 +0000

>Kunshan police found and destroyed 17 cheats and arrested 10 people in connection with the ring.

How do they destroy cheats?

New comment by Zoo3y in "Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left"

Zoo3y — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 21:36:14 +0000

Most of the points they elaborated on are People problems, not Mastodon problems. The genuine critiques of Mastodon they listed are migration issues, updating posts (it makes sense 'edited' posts lose their clout), and character limit (already way bigger than twitter's).

Also, aren't they falling into their own "Us vs. Them" argument by complaining about general Mastodon users?

New comment by Zoo3y in "Twitter’s decentralized social network project takes a baby step forward"

Zoo3y — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 01:02:44 +0000

>I think they're just trying to be the trendsetters so they can have the most control of it when decentralized social networks take off.

Nope. Dorsey has stated he wants twitter to be a client of an open standard https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106

It is in Twitter's favor to hand moderation to community admins. The "trendsetters" already have millions of users on their decentralized platforms https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/twitter.modular...

The likely scenario is they create a modified version of an existing protocol, and manage a large client instance of that protocol (e.g. mastodon.social). Users will be free to host their own twitter server, so to speak, and twitter will have no control over those instances.

New comment by Zoo3y in "At JPMorgan, productivity falls for younger employees at home"

Zoo3y — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 02:37:53 +0000

Imagine for a second these comments but for an article praising productivity while working from home.