Hacker News: gzread

New comment by gzread in "America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance"

gzread — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:22:13 +0000

None, because they are above the rules. You need actual enforcement.

Or the other guy's community network idea but it would have to also publish the realtime activities and whereabouts of all politicians who voted against making this illegal.

Much like the law that stopped video rental companies from telling what their customers were renting, that passed after some politicians had their video rental histories leaked.

New comment by gzread in "Zugzwang"

gzread — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:19:58 +0000

why would Iran not make a nuke when America keeps bombing countries that don't have nukes, and avoids bombing countries that have nukes (most notably North Korea)? They have all the incentives to have a nuke so they'll stop getting bombed. Obama negotiated to avoid this but Trump ripped it up and bombed them, so they're definitely not going to trust any agreements with the west ever again. From their perspective, their only path to not getting bombed to shit involves having several nukes. It's quite rational for them to do that.

New comment by gzread in "Zugzwang"

gzread — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:18:03 +0000

Small correction: Israel has been doing a genocide continually since 1948 - it didn't start in 2023.

New comment by gzread in "Zugzwang"

gzread — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:17:05 +0000

people mock communism for this, but capitalism also does it all the time

New comment by gzread in "AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights"

gzread — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:13:51 +0000

And not in human-interpretable ways. An LLM was told to behave in a certain way and then output random numbers. When the numbers were pasted to another LLM instance, it also behaved that way. I wish I remembered more about that study or had a link to it - it was fascinating.

New comment by gzread in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

gzread — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:45:53 +0000

The cloudflare bug was the equivalent of an uncaught exception caused by a malformed config file. There's no recovery from a malformed config file - the software couldn't possibly have done its job. What's salient is that they were using an alternative to exceptions, because people were told exceptions were error-prone, and using this thing instead would make it easier to write bug-free code. But don't do the equivalent of not catching them!

And then, it turned out to not really be any better than exceptions.

Most Rust evangelism is like this. "In Rust you do X and this makes your code have fewer bugs!" Well no it doesn't. Manually propagating exceptions still makes the program crash and requires more typing, and doesn't emit a stack trace.

New comment by gzread in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

gzread — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:30:24 +0000

I see even the coreutils maintainers find themselves needing -n (no newlines) and -c (count) options to "yes".

New comment by gzread in "Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team"

gzread — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:28:30 +0000

A site that hijacks the back button. Pressing back takes you to the loading screen, which takes you forward to the site again. Ouch.

New comment by gzread in "Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team"

gzread — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:27:28 +0000

you have 85 minutes to delete "(what is it with fish?)" which ruins the joke

New comment by gzread in "Supreme Court to hear arguments in landmark Roundup weedkiller case"

gzread — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:26:06 +0000

You can for using them commercially.

New comment by gzread in "The Social Edge of Intelligence: Individual Gain, Collective Loss"

gzread — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:05:27 +0000

Successful selfishness. The ability to make executable plans to tilt the future in your favor.

New comment by gzread in "WASM is not quite a stack machine"

gzread — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:03:00 +0000

Why would you write in C++ then wrap it in a C++ to JavaScript wrapper then wrap it in a JavaScript to C++ wrapper

New comment by gzread in "Mo RAM, Mo Problems (2025)"

gzread — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:57:55 +0000

That is a hack. It shouldn't need to swap - it should just be able to start using it as normal memory when under memory pressure.

New comment by gzread in "Supreme Court to hear arguments in landmark Roundup weedkiller case"

gzread — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:54:28 +0000

You must not live under an HOA. They'll fine you for not making your house look the same as everyone else's.

New comment by gzread in "Supreme Court to hear arguments in landmark Roundup weedkiller case"

gzread — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:52:43 +0000

There is patent law. Patent law says you can't do the patented thing without the license. Growing the seeds is patented. So you can't grow them without license. This may be so obvious that it never needed to become a notable precedent-setting case.

New comment by gzread in "Supreme Court to hear arguments in landmark Roundup weedkiller case"

gzread — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:50:12 +0000

IMO SCOTUS should retain the power to interpret vagaries of law; Congress still holds ultimate power, as it can pass a more specific law overriding their interpretation.

What about striking down unconstitutional laws, though? That has to be up to SCOTUS, nobody else can do it.

New comment by gzread in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

gzread — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:43:22 +0000

The news on the phone is worse, in fact.

New comment by gzread in "Networking changes coming in macOS 27"

gzread — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:38:57 +0000

Open source is better because if you need the device driver then you can step up to maintain it yourself. It doesn't mean someone else will magically do it for you. I've used devices with very obscure incantations to get some random person's hack to run on Linux that worked natively on Windows.

New comment by gzread in "Networking changes coming in macOS 27"

gzread — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:34:48 +0000

Feetures being dropped because nobody wants to support them is a prominent feature of free software. That's part of "no warranty". If it does bother you, you're supposed to step up to support it yourself, or pay someone to.

New comment by gzread in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

gzread — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:30:46 +0000

If you were in Scotland or Europe more generally, it'd be illegal for "unlimited mileage" to not actually be unlimited mileage.

If CF decides you're subject to an invisible limit which they won't even tell you and you have your domains at CF, they hold your domains hostage. Luckily, these guys had their domains somewhere else so they weren't hostage. Don't be the one who is.