Hacker News: dsabanin

New comment by dsabanin in "US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous"

dsabanin — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:41:47 +0000

Much love to you, brother.

New comment by dsabanin in "Show HN: Gemma 4 Multimodal Fine-Tuner for Apple Silicon"

dsabanin — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:50:28 +0000

Thanks for doing this. Looks interesting, I'm going to check it out soon.

New comment by dsabanin in "The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive"

dsabanin — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:53:32 +0000

I'm convinced that at some point looking like being productive and being productive becomes the same thing.

New comment by dsabanin in "Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026"

dsabanin — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:32:16 +0000

$5.5 in PA.

New comment by dsabanin in "Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026"

dsabanin — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:23:04 +0000

New distraction is coming in! All eyes on this now!

Man, they really don't think much of their voter base or ordinary people for that matter.

New comment by dsabanin in "Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say"

dsabanin — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:19:52 +0000

Turned out they just were the selfish assholes everyone always said they were, with everything they say just being poor attempts at rationalization of their deep lack of morals, including their self-serving primitive religion.

New comment by dsabanin in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

dsabanin — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:26:14 +0000

Are we essentially looking at the infrastructure for the first mass prompt injection-based worm? It seems like a perfect storm for a malicious skill to execute a curl | bash and wipe thousands of agent-connected nodes off the grid.

New comment by dsabanin in "When employees feel slighted, they work less"

dsabanin — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:52:19 +0000

We definitely do. How else are the LLMs that are going to replace managers will learn that? /s

New comment by dsabanin in "There is No Quintic Formula [video]"

dsabanin — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:47:36 +0000

You really picked a wrong target for your ridiculous attacks. 2swap is a mathematical artist, not Khan Academy. There's plenty of boring lectures on youtube already on every topic.

New comment by dsabanin in "There is No Quintic Formula [video]"

dsabanin — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:43:12 +0000

What an annoying comment to read about such an incredible video. Both me and my son enjoyed it a lot. It's an educational art piece with beautiful and insightful visualizations.

New comment by dsabanin in "Tosijs-schema is a super lightweight schema-first LLM-native JSON schema library"

dsabanin — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:31:05 +0000

Zod's validation errors are awful, the json schema it generates for LLM is ugly and and often confusing, the types structures Zod creates are often unintelligible in the and there's even no good way to pretty print a schema when you're debugging. Things are even worse if you're stuck with zod/v3

New comment by dsabanin in "Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules"

dsabanin — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:13:50 +0000

The whole thing Trump and his minions are doing is so very reminiscent of what was happening in Russia during its turn to fascism. Similarities go to such an extreme degree across the board that I now feel there has to be at least a consultant from Moscow working with the current admin, if not full blown department at the FSB. Blatant lying, complete disregard of any laws, open rejection of norms and mockery of process, justification of extreme cruelty , obsession with some made up concept of “liberals”, and blaming everything on the predecessors (Putin is still trying to blame all the problems on the collapse of the Soviet Union).

I sincerely hope that people of the United States reject being treated like mindless cattle and choose freedom instead of what appears to be a complete and utter national-fascist tyranny.

New comment by dsabanin in "Bun adds pnpm-style isolated installation mode"

dsabanin — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 04:33:36 +0000

Really loving Bun these days. Was really pleasantly surprised using their shell scripting API in typescript - single file, shebang line, straightforward DSL, support for piping data here and there.

Really, really nice and ergonomic. Made a few utility scripts today and enjoyed it much better than bash.

https://bun.com/docs/runtime/shell

New comment by dsabanin in "My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education"

dsabanin — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:08:10 +0000

I've been getting lots of scam calls lately, especially AI voice generated once, and there was one particularly annoying. Very persistent call about being approved for some loan, no reference to any particulars, all very vague, and I kept ignoring. In my mind I had no doubt it was a scam. Well, long and boring story short, now I have a missed payment on my credit report for my new HVAC system..

New comment by dsabanin in "Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival"

dsabanin — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:25:52 +0000

I find it completely acceptable to outsource some of my thinking and tasks to LLMs. Not everything is my primary area of focus or expertise, and not all questions are equally important. For example, I could buy any random toaster oven, or I can kick off a deep research to pick a best toaster by my criteria and in 5 minutes I’ll have a much better context for this decision, without having to switch my mind from my primary objectives. I don’t want to think about toasters.

New comment by dsabanin in "The 90% Gravity Problem: Why We Tend to Quit Right Before the Finish Line"

dsabanin — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:04:12 +0000

Every. Damn. Time. I've enjoyed reading The War of Art, that talks a lot about this mysterious "resistance".

New comment by dsabanin in "How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy"

dsabanin — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:05:10 +0000

I think it's pretty clear we're at this stage already.

New comment by dsabanin in "Data manipulations alleged in study that paved way for Microsoft's quantum chip"

dsabanin — Fri, 09 May 2025 17:48:32 +0000

Hm, that may be controversial in itself, depending on where you stand in the current cosmology.

New comment by dsabanin in "Throwaway Code: Don't recycle, throw it away (2017)"

dsabanin — Fri, 09 May 2025 17:27:45 +0000

Very well said. This is such an important point.

I believe that if you truly accept what Hemingway said, that writing is rewriting, you get less attached to the idea of reaching the best design on the first try, and feel better when starting with a suboptimal solution.

Of course this sometimes conflicts with organizational pressures, where that quick and dirty solution may be deemed as enough by some and you won't get to finish with the proper design. For me the trick is to consider first version just an internal stage of work on a feature, not even communicated outwards most of the times, until the appropriate design is reached.

New comment by dsabanin in "Data manipulations alleged in study that paved way for Microsoft's quantum chip"

dsabanin — Fri, 09 May 2025 14:32:03 +0000

Is there something she is not skeptical of or controversial about?