Hacker News: garylkz

New comment by garylkz in "Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October"

garylkz — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:17:05 +0000

Remember Microsoft Edge? Remember Microsoft Teams? Remember Dev Home? Remember Copilot? Yeah it's the same thing everytime.

New comment by garylkz in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

garylkz — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:25:19 +0000

Yep, I can't remember when was the last time I've visited a SEO optimized site but I still had the bitter taste that I felt when I last visited it:

- searches for "How to do XYZ" and click one of the site

- "what is xyz"

- "why xyz matters"

- "preparations before xyz"

- "what you might encounter when xyz"

Sounds reasonable and in theory should be useful, but the actual useful info are only stuffed in 1-2 lines of multi paragraphs on tons of sections that I don't care about.

New comment by garylkz in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

garylkz — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:19:37 +0000

That's because AI is still in the honeymoon phase, unless it's a paying service, at some point the summary will start to have context relevant ads.

Also, I felt like in long term that's going to kill off the good faith of all those smaller sites that are actually good, while the bigger ones still produce subpar contents.

New comment by garylkz in "Massive study detects AI fingerprints in millions of scientific papers"

garylkz — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 05:21:17 +0000

Curious, currently how is the use of AI being detected from papers?

From the article I saw that they're using "excess words" as an indicator, is that a reliable method?

Also, is it possible that it's just autocorrect that added "excess words" when fixing grammar? If that's the case, should that be considered as "use of AI"?

New comment by garylkz in "Younger generations less likely to have dementia, study suggests"

garylkz — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:59:40 +0000

If you force yourself to communicate in certain language, you more or less will be able to communicate with it sooner or later.

(Provided that you have basic understanding to the language)

New comment by garylkz in "I like to install NixOS (declaratively)"

garylkz — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:32:22 +0000

On Arch if I'm not mistaken, you can export your archinstall configuration to be used at other machines although it's not fully "declarative" but I believe it sort of works for certain use cases

New comment by garylkz in "Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia"

garylkz — Wed, 28 May 2025 15:48:51 +0000

Buddhism encourages non-violence, it's not strictly enforced, but there will be consequences when they die.

Then again, just because some people's doctrine does not encourage violence doesn't give others a free ticket to bash on them for doing so.

New comment by garylkz in "Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia"

garylkz — Wed, 28 May 2025 13:56:46 +0000

The whole point of becoming a monk is to try to have control over their desires, exercise mental discipline like how Buddha does.

If one is already able to achieve all of that they won't even need to become a monk, because they've already achieved what they wanted to.

New comment by garylkz in "Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia"

garylkz — Wed, 28 May 2025 13:38:41 +0000

When people are doing something "in the name of religion", it's possible that they are just trying to justify their actions to achieve certain goals

New comment by garylkz in "Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral"

garylkz — Wed, 28 May 2025 13:29:39 +0000

Ah yes, that exactly

New comment by garylkz in "Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral"

garylkz — Wed, 28 May 2025 13:28:23 +0000

Yes, it's truth as in "consensus" but not the absolute truth, and I don't think we are going to reach the absolute truth anytime soon.

You're assuming that everyone will agree on the truth just because it's the "truth", but why do you think we no longer believe that earth is the center of world?

There will always people who questions the truth and did research and study about it, discovers new observations of the subject and replace the existing if it convinced the majority.

It's question that lead us closer to the truth (occasionally it does the opposite). That's why we made new discoveries, and that's why you are here questioning about the truthfulness of truth.

New comment by garylkz in "Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral"

garylkz — Wed, 28 May 2025 13:14:02 +0000

From my totally biased understanding, truth is what groups of people agreed on, people believe what they believed in. Even though people agreed on the same thing, each of them would have different interpretation of the truth that they believe it, with certain levels of overlap.

New comment by garylkz in "The UI future is colourful and dimensional"

garylkz — Tue, 27 May 2025 13:16:23 +0000

So a full circle from colorful design to simplified design to flat design then to colorful design again.

New comment by garylkz in "At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work"

garylkz — Mon, 26 May 2025 15:22:54 +0000

Curious, do you supervise the code itself or at least understand what the code is trying to do?

By "I didn't edit a single line", do you still prompt the agent to fix any issues you found? If so, is that consided an edit?

New comment by garylkz in "On "Vibe Coding""

garylkz — Sat, 24 May 2025 15:46:20 +0000

Imo there is nothing wrong with generating code with AI, it's the effort spent on supervising the quality of product that matters.

But that requires you to have certain levels of knowledge on that domain to begin with, which is not something you can just "vibe" your way out, at least for now.

New comment by garylkz in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

garylkz — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:51:00 +0000

I've been using Arch for 1-3 years now, as far as I can remember the only time that my system "break" was caused by pacman lock got stuck somehow. Aside of that it's pretty stable in general.

New comment by garylkz in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

garylkz — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:35:41 +0000

Don't get me wrong, what I meant is that I only uses windows on games that runs poorly for me, I use Linux as my daily driver.

Regarding fps, it's around 15fps diff, and it's bad in my case because I had a potato machine.

New comment by garylkz in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

garylkz — Tue, 20 May 2025 06:14:10 +0000

Curious, if you don't mind answering, do you mainly uses Ubuntu or Nixos, and which one do you liked more ATM?

Regarding Steam, do you install it with distro provided or through Flatpak?

What is the spec of your machine that you do Linux gaming on? I've noticed a notable performance penalty (around 10%, even higher on GPU heavy games) when running games with Proton, which is mainly why I haven't dropped Windows yet.

New comment by garylkz in "Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android"

garylkz — Sun, 18 May 2025 06:11:40 +0000

I remember back then my laptop broke during the beginning of COVID, and I was left with a smartphone that is incapable of doing Termux stuff.

To cope with that I have ended up making some toys like Discord bot that evaluates code, requested access from Insomnia 24/7 to SSH into Linux environment for programming purposes.

It was fun experience and I've ended up learning a lot of programming stuff before I've even started my study in university for computer science.

New comment by garylkz in "Huawei is spamming open source community for its Harmony ecosystem (See Comment)"

garylkz — Fri, 16 May 2025 05:25:01 +0000

To be fair, it's their freedom to create a proposal to any author they want, and it's also the author's freedom to reject the PR.

But to be honest, even if the author rejects it, what will happen is most likely them forking the repo and make changes on top of it.