Hacker News: _fzslm

New comment by _fzslm in "The August 17 outage"

_fzslm — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:54:04 +0000

I appreciate the unprecedented load GitHub is currently experiencing, but it's not just the (admittedly extreme) load of commits/pushes that is to blame.

Their Copilot cloud agent offering is suffering with a case of some of the worst corporate ADHD I've seen. We built a cloud agentic development pipeline on it, and it seems like almost every other week they silently change something with zero public announcement that creates real disruption for our team.

Note: that's not bugs in the Copilot platform like the article discusses. That's real, breaking changes to the platform that clearly aren't being tested/reviewed before being pushed to prod, with zero public announcement or documentation.

Support is useless – we're paying customers in the 4-5 figures and our tickets go unanswered.

I love(d) GitHub, but I do think they've lost enough public trust at this point that their time is ticking. With talk of new VCSes designed specifically for agents, I do believe it is just a matter of time. Which pains me somewhat to say.

New comment by _fzslm in "Pebble Mega Update – July 2026"

_fzslm — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:57:20 +0000

It's a low power transflective LCD branded as e-paper, not e-ink. So it has none of e-inks downsides (namely low refresh rate and image persistence)

New comment by _fzslm in "Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)"

_fzslm — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:58:00 +0000

For that you probably want this, lol: https://cssdoom.wtf/

New comment by _fzslm in "An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop"

_fzslm — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:56:06 +0000

Not only this, but it's like Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign all mixed up into one super-app. This beats Adobe's cross-app functionality by miles.

New comment by _fzslm in "Qualcomm Linux 2.0"

_fzslm — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:22:14 +0000

I have a gorgeous Surface Pro 11 X1 Elite that can run just enough Linux to tease me with how beautiful it could be, but it's still unstable enough that I can't daily it.

Torture.

New comment by _fzslm in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

_fzslm — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:24:23 +0000

Anthropic being pissed enough to announce this means that, despite encrypting their reasoning chains, it doesn't matter – distillation lives on.

Sweeeeeeeet.

New comment by _fzslm in "The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output"

_fzslm — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:38:39 +0000

Cat and mouse measures like this rarely work forever.

New comment by _fzslm in "Show HN: Are You in the Weights?"

_fzslm — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:42:37 +0000

Love the graphics, the 8-bit style of the people's portraits is really well done. Are those AI generated?

New comment by _fzslm in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

_fzslm — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:07:55 +0000

Really interesting project. Do you have a link to a writeup/paper?

New comment by _fzslm in "Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]"

_fzslm — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:58:17 +0000

Nice. I have a 3rd gen Echo Show 8 that's collecting dust and I direly wish I could sideload an actually useful UI onto it, but there aren't any methods of doing so yet.

Can't wait until Mythos is public so I can set it on pwning the damn thing.

New comment by _fzslm in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

_fzslm — Fri, 01 May 2026 01:09:44 +0000

They might not be able to scale it, and indeed they might indeed have to jack the prices. But vibe coding is here to stay. Maybe it'll recede for a few years while people figure out the scaling. But the Pandora's Box is opened and it ain't closing

New comment by _fzslm in "Self-updating screenshots"

_fzslm — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:06:38 +0000

Would you mind sharing a link to some of these casual games? I ask cuz I'm also interested in how vibe coding can make game development easier.

We had such a vibrant indie game scene when Adobe flash was about and since then nothing's really touched that level of ease of development. I think vibe coding is the first tool that actually exceeds it.

New comment by _fzslm in "CSS is DOOMed"

_fzslm — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 01:54:48 +0000

My phone IMMEDIATELY got toasty as I started moving around the world :')

New comment by _fzslm in "Big data on the cheapest MacBook"

_fzslm — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:56:43 +0000

My substantially more privileged, but somewhat equivalent experience, was doing mobile app development, Docker, linux VMs, UI design, and finding out about hacker news on an 11 inch MacBook Air with 4gb of RAM.

i have a computer that benchmarks literally 10x faster and with 32x the amount of RAM, but i miss that little thing that helped me build my career from nothing

New comment by _fzslm in "OpenClaw Exposure Watchboard"

_fzslm — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:00:21 +0000

Does publicly documenting and direct linking vulnerable AI agents (that have goodness-knows-how-much access to sensitive user data) for anyone to exploit feel like responsible disclosure?

This could really ruin some people's day. A private message left on their agents to tip people off that their agents are vulnerable feels a lot less destructive.

New comment by _fzslm in "I’m joining OpenAI"

_fzslm — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:37:15 +0000

AI slop will collapse under its own weight without oversight. I really think we will need new frameworks to support AI-generated code. Engineers with high standards will be needed to build and maintain the tools and technologies so that AI-written code can thrive. It's not game over just yet

New comment by _fzslm in "xAI joins SpaceX"

_fzslm — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:00:06 +0000

AFAIK he can do whatever he wants in space, but CSAM is still illegal to view or even download in most (all?) countries of the world. So unless the degenerates also move out into space (which I'm sure they're eager to do), it wouldn't really ease the legal situation here on Earth.

New comment by _fzslm in "Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency"

_fzslm — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:44:13 +0000

How much of this is the consequence of piracy? So many musicians use NI VSTs, but because of the expense they're pirating. What if they'd targeted the hobby musician more?

New comment by _fzslm in "UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning"

_fzslm — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:25:57 +0000

And which people?

New comment by _fzslm in "Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?"

_fzslm — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:45:28 +0000

Sure, but when I open X, it's literally all over my front page.