Hacker News: g8oz

New comment by g8oz in "The One Question I Can't Stand at Restaurants ("What's your phone number?")"

g8oz — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:15:36 +0000

I just say "can we skip that?" No one has thrown a fit yet.

New comment by g8oz in "Gen Z Is the First Generation Dumber Than Their Parents"

g8oz — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:33:32 +0000

Perhaps they were right then as well in some sense.

New comment by g8oz in "Passkeys are not a trap"

g8oz — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:54:52 +0000

But what I don't understand is how are passkeys improving what Apple provides here. You could have just done this with passwords and had all the ecosystem benefits you outlined.

New comment by g8oz in "Sumatra File Manager"

g8oz — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 03:50:24 +0000

If it's half as good as the author's other project, Sumatra PDF then it will be amazing. Definitely going to check this out.

New comment by g8oz in "ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts"

g8oz — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:06:59 +0000

Did the Palestinian children sniped in the head and chest have it coming as well?

New comment by g8oz in "SAML: A fractal of bad design"

g8oz — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:26:37 +0000

Have you kept up with the improvements in the latest PHP versions?

New comment by g8oz in "Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce""

g8oz — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:09:11 +0000

I've always like reduce myself, didn't realize others had a negative attitude towards it.

New comment by g8oz in "US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs"

g8oz — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:00:08 +0000

This is ahistorical nonsense. White immigrants are perfectly capable of retaining native prejudices. Localized tensions among Eastern European immigrants in the earlier 20th century have been documented. And any immigrant group regardless of race will align with American culture a few generations in.

If by not fitting in you mean that they will continue to look different and retain some links to their ancestral culture then sure.

New comment by g8oz in "Carney's Bid to Make Canada an 'Associate Member' of the EU"

g8oz — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:53:56 +0000

Maybe Carney needs to post the kind of macho memes that Trump does for you to take him seriously.

New comment by g8oz in "San Franciscans are having sex in robotaxis, and nobody is talking about it"

g8oz — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:59:49 +0000

The AI is watching.

New comment by g8oz in "I refuse to let SPICE die"

g8oz — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:09:24 +0000

100% agree. VNC is well past its prime.

New comment by g8oz in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

g8oz — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:13:25 +0000

Sen. Bernie Sanders floats ban on superintelligent AI

https://www.axios.com/2026/09/03/bernie-sanders-superintelli...

New comment by g8oz in "Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death"

g8oz — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:53:31 +0000

Clicked on some his other posts...and yeah.

He essentially advocates for a society that has the attributes that he accuses oral culture of: conservative, repetitive, static, lacking innovation.

New comment by g8oz in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

g8oz — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:57:29 +0000

A related essay with the same take:

https://publiccomment.blog/p/it-is-past-time-for-you-to-quit...

New comment by g8oz in "Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI"

g8oz — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:41:48 +0000

For most people around the world America is more of a threat than China. Heck for most Americans the American government is more of a threat than the Chinese government.

New comment by g8oz in "Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI"

g8oz — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:36:19 +0000

Model serving and inference will be trivial in the long term, right now it's a real choke point. Being able to do that with domestic chips is an important win.

New comment by g8oz in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

g8oz — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:01:41 +0000

Mo Bitar over on YouTube does the grumpy AI skeptic routine in a much more entertaining fashion.

New comment by g8oz in "Just say something people want"

g8oz — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:25:09 +0000

I hate everything this guy argues for.

New comment by g8oz in "AWS Acquires DuckLabs"

g8oz — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:01:07 +0000

I fear this is the end of the rapid pace of innovation that we've seen from DuckDb.

"AWS has committed to supporting the continued development of DuckDB and its wider community for the long term."

Those are just words man.

New comment by g8oz in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

g8oz — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:10:18 +0000

In general any deal with the other party is introducing last minute changes is one to walk away from.

And specifically any deal made with the U.S under Trump has no credibility, just ask Iran.