Hacker News: g8oz

New comment by g8oz in "Atlassian is changing how we use customer data on August 17, 2026"

g8oz — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:17:19 +0000

The enshitification train chugs along to the next stop for Atlassian customers.

New comment by g8oz in "U.S. to Create High-Tech Manufacturing Zone in Philippines"

g8oz — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:10:00 +0000

> The hub will have diplomatic immunity, such as the protections afforded to an American embassy, and operate under U.S. common law—the first arrangement of its kind anywhere in the world. The two-year lease is renewable for 99 years.

This seems like a 19th century style colonial concession. I would have hoped we were past that.

New comment by g8oz in "PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations"

g8oz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:55:13 +0000

I agree that PHP's request oriented "shared nothing" approach has its advantages.

That being said there are very decent options for long running processes/application servers these days - see RoadRunner, Swoole and Frankenphp.

New comment by g8oz in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

g8oz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:22:08 +0000

It's very hard to get rid of old standards.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past"

New comment by g8oz in "What Claude Code's Source Revealed About AI Engineering Culture"

g8oz — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:03:31 +0000

Ironically this article critical of AI coding is guilty of AI writing.

New comment by g8oz in "How Passive Radar Works"

g8oz — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:49:17 +0000

Indeed, full spectrum Western dominance over air space in the global South could come to an end. If that goes, the chains of hegemony loosen significantly.

New comment by g8oz in "Things I learned from Reddit fashion"

g8oz — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:10:40 +0000

Synthetics stink quite quickly.

New comment by g8oz in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

g8oz — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:23:22 +0000

Just on Zed: it's speed and responsiveness are very impressive. Feels as snappy as Notepad++.

New comment by g8oz in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

g8oz — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:34:17 +0000

Are Israeli concerns the axis around which the world must revolve? In any case they can keep busy ethnically cleansing south Lebanon and murdering Palestinian children.

New comment by g8oz in "Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal"

g8oz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:34:56 +0000

One of the things that has been shocking to me but has received little attention, has been the assassination of prominent former Iranian officials. Is this not a war crime? They were serving in no military capacity before they and their families were killed in their homes.

If a foreign adversary killed John Bolton or Anthony Blinken by bombing their homes I'm sure it would be called terrorism.

New comment by g8oz in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

g8oz — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:15:59 +0000

Who's going to deal with the Zionist terrorist regime that has been bullying the Middle East since 1948?

Or the Wahabi regime that sponsored the sort of fanaticism that led to the rise of Al Qaeda?

Let's not put a moral spin on America's realpolitik.

New comment by g8oz in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

g8oz — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:05:18 +0000

You're confidently replying to a point that I did not make. Protesters were certainly killed, both peaceful ones and agitators. In addition, government claims hundreds of police officers died and places of worship were attacked and burned.

My point is there is simply no verifiable numbers because both the opposition, particularly diaspora groups backed by the regimes enemies, and the government have incentives to be inaccurate. So trying to use the death toll as a talking point is not a good idea.

It's completely naive to underestimate the role of Mossad and the United States in the unrest. The former through actual Iranian nationals in their employ, and the latter in engineering the dollar shortage that led to the unrest in the first place (Scott Besant bragged about this).

New comment by g8oz in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

g8oz — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:40:19 +0000

None of those numbers are verifiable. The opposition has every incentive to lie. And let's not forget there was a lot of armed agitators amongst those protesters. Mike Huckabee let the cat out of the bag with a tweet boasting of how a mossad agent walks beside every protester.

New comment by g8oz in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

g8oz — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:22:36 +0000

Extensive domestic economic control by security forces is also a feature of Egypt and Pakistan. America does not complain about those examples of course, because those countries bend the knee.

New comment by g8oz in "Tar: A slop-free alternative to rsync"

g8oz — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:07:12 +0000

I would recommend rclone as an alternative to rsync over tar.

New comment by g8oz in "Laws Suppressing Boycotts of Israel Violate Civil Liberties"

g8oz — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:48:36 +0000

"The single greatest threat to free speech at this point in time is Israel and its supporters" - American political scientist Professor John Mearsheimer.

New comment by g8oz in "A lawyer won Anthropic's hackathon – what everyone missed"

g8oz — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:44:59 +0000

The AI editing of the article makes it a painful read. A shame because the point they were making is a good one, regarding AI coding apps empowering domain experts.

New comment by g8oz in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

g8oz — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:33:18 +0000

"People who don't agree with me must be foreign actors"

Or maybe you need a wider circle of friends.

New comment by g8oz in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

g8oz — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:07:26 +0000

I thought the proposal for a solar link between Morocco and the UK was a great idea. Unfortunately the UK government has decided not to back it with a contract for different guarantee.

https://xlinks.co/morocco-uk-power-project/

New comment by g8oz in "The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why"

g8oz — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:48:54 +0000

We’ve been hearing similar things for decades.