Hacker News: ZpJuUuNaQ5

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "I analysed 20 years of my chats"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:27:30 +0000

>15 close friends, 50 regular contacts, 150 active acquaintances

Seems like a lot. For me, it's 0 close friends, 0 regular contacts, and 0 active acquaintances. I think I simply never developed any useful social skills which would help me make and keep friends or acquaintances. I wish I had (somehow) kept in touch with at least some people I have met throughout my life. It has never been easier to stay in contact than in all of human history, but no, I had to ghost and ignore everyone and everything. After 29 revolutions around the sun, I have only now started to realize that all that vacuous superiority has led me nowhere. There is only a faint aftertaste of missing out, which sticks to me like tar. I can’t wash it off.

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:42:51 +0000

I have never met anyone on the street who wasn't mentally ill or tried to sell me something. Types like this ignore your brief answers, facial expressions and body language, and continue to yap on. Honestly, I cannot imagine a single situation where a random interaction with a stranger on the street would be a positive experience. No, I do not strive for you to "reach out", on the contrary, I avoid you like a rotting carcass of a pigeon.

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "Over 8M Thermos jars and bottles recalled after 3 people lost vision"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:01:52 +0000

I hate life a little bit more every time I stumble upon stories like this. Anything and everything can happen to you, suddenly, without warning, without planning, not necessarily because of any obvious fault of your own (from your perspective, at least). "Oh, you thought you already had enough problems and worries as it is? Congratulations, now you are blind in one eye, forever, because you wanted to keep your coffee warmer for a little longer."

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:18:44 +0000

1. "Hated how managers run boards", but there is absolutely no explanation on what this system does differently. How does it differ from the myriad of existing solutions? 2. Documentation is practically non-existent. 3. The code isn't event open-source, and the license prohibits modification and distribution. Come on, this is essentially a TODO app. 4. Demo requires a user to create a real account and use an email address... 5. Telegram channel appears to have some demo videos, but all posts are in Russian. Why?

I would say this is some sort of joke if I weren't familiar with this kind of mindset, but I don't understand what causes this.

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "Overcoming the friendship recession"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:06:58 +0000

When I was about 10 years old it dawned on me that "friendship" is a really unclear, mutual agreement, and if you consider someone your friend, they might not consider you theirs (or at the very least, not on the same level of "friendliness") and vice versa. What does it even mean to be or have a "friend"? It's such a silly thing, but it permanently changed the way I looked at social connections. I never had "friends" ever since and don't feel like I am missing out on anything.

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "ArXiv declares independence from Cornell"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:18:53 +0000

>Salaries in the US are so bonkers.

Sure, but the cost of living there is significantly higher as well. Anyway, I can hardly even comprehend these kinds of sums, though I am a bit of an outlier, as I earn around $27,700 as an SWE in Europe, which is low even by the standards of companies in my own country.

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "EVi, a Hard-Fork of Vim"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:26:42 +0000

These "Co-Authored-By" messages are added automatically by Claude Code when it makes commits on its own, although you just need to instruct it not to do so.

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:50:56 +0000

I do this, more or less, although I am a bit older. It's not as if I enter my real name, address, or email at every opportunity, but there is really no perceptible feedback loop that would force one to contemplate the consequences. I visit my local news site and the first thing I see is a massive cookie banner which lists over a thousand third-party vendors and asks me to either "Accept all", or if I am being prudent, click adjacent button called "Choose" to go to another page, then manually untick dozens of tracker categories, and then click "Allow selection". Whatever I chose, it wouldn't have any tangible impact on my life. I simply do not care.

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:57:43 +0000

I am apathetic to everything because there is nothing I can do about any of that. I am a speck of dust on a cog of a machine. There is absolutely no point of worrying about any of this.

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:41:50 +0000

I hate it when strangers try to talk to me in public (e.g., on public transportation, at work). I absolutely do not care what you have to say, what you do, how your day went, how many pets you have, what your hobbies are, or where you spent your holidays, and at the same time, in no way do I want to share any details about my life, not out of privacy or anxiety of speaking but out of sheer annoyance and indifference. However, most of the time I do not want to insult the person that tries to talk to me in any way, so I just stay silent and try to endure this torturous assault until I find a suitable moment to get away.

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:47:20 +0000

"I will never read anything by [AUTHOR] because some things [AUTHOR] wrote are now in my no no list."

Sorry, that just doesn't make sense to me.

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:22:52 +0000

>never read anything from ever again

I think it's a poisonous and reductive mindset to have. You can separate art from the character of the artist. If you cared about everything everyone has ever said or done in various stages of their lives, you wouldn't have much left to enjoy or appreciate.

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:11:52 +0000

Interesting. I'd love to have a browser extension that automatically blocks all comment sections on every site I visit, so I wouldn't feel the need to interact with anyone online.

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:48:54 +0000

>The UI looks so good. Why can’t we have good looking things anymore?

Because "good looking UI" is a completely subjective metric.

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:22:49 +0000

>Makes it unsettling when it then shows orders for books you've also read.

>but also somewhat humanizing, which is not what I expected.

I am obviously not defending him or anything, but it always puzzles me how any of this confuses people. Whoever we may be, we are also humans, sharing common human traits and habits, and other people are just as real as we are. Every living moment, you unavoidably share at least some of the common beliefs, ideas, preferences, biases, habits, norms, values, goals, desires, fears, tastes, jokes, expectations, opinions and more with people you'd otherwise absolutely abhor.

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "GitHub is down again"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:25:59 +0000

It's a funny coincidence - I pushed a commit adding a link to an image in the README.md, opened the repo page, clicked on the said image, and got the unicorn page. The site did not load anymore after that.

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:15:07 +0000

Cross-platform book management and reading application: https://github.com/Eoic/Papyrus.

This isn't a serious project by any means, but rather a prototype. Also, I really got carried away using Claude Code, although my initial goal was simply to glue a quick proof-of-concept and see how it could look like.

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "Prism"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:38:28 +0000

So you have to resort to the most extreme examples in order to make it a problem? Do you also think of Hitler when you encounter a word "vegetarian"?

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "Prism"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:30:33 +0000

Well, I don't know anything about marketing and you might have a point, but the severity of impact of these two words is clearly very different, so it doesn't look like a good comparison to me. It would raise quite a few eyebrows and more if, for example, someone released a Linux distro named "Auschwitz OS", meanwhile, even in the software world, there are multiple products that incorporate the word prism in various ways[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. I don't believe that an average user encountering the word "prism" immediately starts thinking about NSA surveillance program.

[1] https://www.prisma.io/

[2] https://prism-pipeline.com/

[3] https://prismppm.com/

[4] https://prismlibrary.com/

[5] https://3dprism.eu/en/

[6] https://www.graphpad.com/features

[7] https://www.prismsoftware.com/

[8] https://prismlive.com/en_us/

[9] https://github.com/Project-Prism/Prism-OS

New comment by ZpJuUuNaQ5 in "Prism"

ZpJuUuNaQ5 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:41:40 +0000

>I'm dumbfounded they chose the name of the infamous NSA mass surveillance program revealed by Snowden in 2013. And even more so that there is just one other comment among 320 pointing this out

I just think it's silly to obsess over words like that. There are many words that take on different meanings in different contexts and can be associated with different events, ideas, products, time periods, etc. Would you feel better if they named it "Polyhedron"?