Hacker News: blizdiddy

New comment by blizdiddy in "Maine's governor vetoes data center moratorium"

blizdiddy — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:53:22 +0000

Our system is designed so there is always a politician who folds for big business. The rest all hem and haw until it’s their turn to take the fall. They spread out the evil, we vote for lesser evils, and we all condemn extremism. Democracy.

New comment by blizdiddy in "We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran"

blizdiddy — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:02:13 +0000

The only thing any of that has to do with the US is that the US backed that theocracy! We cannot unilaterally violate all international law and sovereignty without Congress and our allies… that’s obvious though so what are you talking about?

New comment by blizdiddy in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

blizdiddy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:14:24 +0000

Is it so hard to project out a couple product cycles? Computers get better. We’ve gone from $50k workstation to commodity hardware before several times

New comment by blizdiddy in "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD"

blizdiddy — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:58:39 +0000

We know what the law is… the law is bullshit.

Is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism?

New comment by blizdiddy in "Show HN: Dumped Wix for an AI Edge agent so I never have to hire junior staff"

blizdiddy — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:22:49 +0000

I can’t tell cringe AI-bubble business pivots from AI psychosis anymore

New comment by blizdiddy in "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD"

blizdiddy — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:01:08 +0000

Agreed. Publishers need to be knocked off this absurd moral high ground. If merely being rich is enough for me to profit off of Miles Davis songs for decades after his death, copyright is just another wealth redistribution to the rich. Steal all the games and music, and any ghoul that claims I’m stifling creativity can compare their compositions to mine.

New comment by blizdiddy in "Nvidia NemoClaw"

blizdiddy — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:46:49 +0000

Running OpenClaw is the nerd equivalent of rolling coal

New comment by blizdiddy in "Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service"

blizdiddy — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:38:10 +0000

Emergency notifications are done the same way! Its communism to fucking build it, so let’s have a team of a few engineers make an API to control government infrastructure from incompetent contractors on AWS, offer no real means of testing, breaking changes, downtime… and folks wonder why Hawaii is told bombs are coming

New comment by blizdiddy in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

blizdiddy — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:31:53 +0000

Animal testing, weapons testing, medical trials, cloning, psychological experiments… had you just never considered them before? Why this?

New comment by blizdiddy in "Show HN: First Claude Code client for Ollama local models"

blizdiddy — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 06:37:03 +0000

Gpt-oss is natively 4-bit, so you kinda can

New comment by blizdiddy in "Just Get a Better Job"

blizdiddy — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:38:32 +0000

Wow, it’s almost like having health insurance tied to employers creates a giant obstacle to pursuing less exploitative opportunities.

New comment by blizdiddy in "Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files"

blizdiddy — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:17:36 +0000

Mcafee for iPhone has 5 stars. iBeer has 5 stars. Every app in a search of “DMV” has five stars. Every “gpt” ai clone app has 5 stars.

New comment by blizdiddy in "Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft?"

blizdiddy — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:10:26 +0000

The “CTO” at my small employer used this book to explain why we needed to stick with Perl and Oracle 9i in 2020.

New comment by blizdiddy in "Being poor vs. being broke"

blizdiddy — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:22:06 +0000

Poor people don’t have control of their situation. You are literally victim blaming and surprised that rubs people the wrong way. Victim blaming is rude, offering your flippant two cents is rude. There, your ideas are challenged, rather than tone police go think about it.

New comment by blizdiddy in "Being poor vs. being broke"

blizdiddy — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:02:33 +0000

You should feel embarrassed for “thinking” so callously and uncritically. Do you need everything handed to you? Family issues, natural disasters, medical events, house fires, abuse, wage theft, fate. I’ve worked with the destitute, there is no safety net.

New comment by blizdiddy in "Claude Code on the web"

blizdiddy — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:41:02 +0000

So what is your thesis? The tools keep getting better, so that’s some kind of gotcha that the emporer has no clothes? Some people prefer the absolute latest and greatest so people on the previous gen were all fakers making Pelican svgs?

Maybe the productive thing is actually to ignore naysayers and goalpost movers and use the tools.

You aren’t enlightened for not liking a tool. “Oh, hammers? Absolutely a bubble, after all they never fixed the hit-your-thumb issue i blogged about, and nail guns just let you hurt your thumbs faster”

New comment by blizdiddy in "Behind the scenes of Bun Install"

blizdiddy — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:52:26 +0000

And how many dependencies does Hono have? Looks like about 26. And how many dependencies do those have?

A single static zig executable isn’t the same as a a pipeline of package management dependencies susceptible to supply chain attacks and the worst bitrot we’ve had since the DOS era.

New comment by blizdiddy in "Behind the scenes of Bun Install"

blizdiddy — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:57:59 +0000

I used bun for the first time last week. It was awesome! The built-in server and SQLite meant i didn’t need any dependencies besides bun itself, which is certainly my favorite way to develop.

I do almost all of my development in vanilla js despite loathing the node ecosystem, so i really should have checked it out sooner.

New comment by blizdiddy in "How often do health insurers say no to patients? (2023)"

blizdiddy — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:28:11 +0000

More people are employed by health insurance than healthcare. Insurance is the waste.

New comment by blizdiddy in "ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner"

blizdiddy — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:28:33 +0000

I’d prefer to not touch a hot stove twice. Telling me what processors I can use is Oracle- level rent seeking, and it should be mocked just like Oracle.