Hacker News: jayzalowitz

New comment by jayzalowitz in "Zuck#: A programming language for connecting the world. And harvesting it"

jayzalowitz — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:20:59 +0000

Hey yall, author here.

This was made by claude code as a demo to someone, and because I thought it would be funny.

It actually works have a look: https://github.com/jayzalowitz/zucksharp

New comment by jayzalowitz in "Zuck#: A programming language for connecting the world. And harvesting it"

jayzalowitz — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:17:28 +0000

Im the author. Feel free to dm me anything you want added.

New comment by jayzalowitz in "Zuck#: A programming language for connecting the world. And harvesting it"

jayzalowitz — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:16:33 +0000

No, actually Zuck# works, this is a working language.

New comment by jayzalowitz in "Zuck#: A programming language for connecting the world. And harvesting it"

jayzalowitz — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:15:29 +0000

Author here:

Yeah actually, I wanted to demonstrate claude code, and my relatively complicated process for developement to someone, so I made a programming language to show them.

I actually met mark when we were both mentoring the fwd.us hackathon, from that limited interaction, I do think hed probably get a reasonable chuckle out of this.

New comment by jayzalowitz in "Zuck#: A programming language for connecting the world. And harvesting it"

jayzalowitz — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:13:27 +0000

Hi author here: 100% smoked meats floating around was out of my head and not the ai.

New comment by jayzalowitz in "Zuck#: A programming language for connecting the world. And harvesting it"

jayzalowitz — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:11:42 +0000

Am author: This is accurate.

New comment by jayzalowitz in "Scientists discover oldest poison, on 60k-year-old arrows"

jayzalowitz — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:35:05 +0000

the main poison used today is dopamine.

New comment by jayzalowitz in "Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to (2016)"

jayzalowitz — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:15:03 +0000

congratulations on being the highest emdash users of hacker news, I totally get why now.

Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?

jayzalowitz — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:12:46 +0000

This thanksgiving let's give thanks to those that give back. Yall rock!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46071771

Points: 32

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New comment by jayzalowitz in "Multi-Region Row Level Security in CockroachDB"

jayzalowitz — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:09:40 +0000

well done!

New comment by jayzalowitz in "ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC"

jayzalowitz — Fri, 09 May 2025 15:50:27 +0000

Takes more power.

New comment by jayzalowitz in "Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B"

jayzalowitz — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:14:08 +0000

If they dont call it G-Wiz afterwords i'm disappointed in google's culture.

New comment by jayzalowitz in "GIMP 3.0"

jayzalowitz — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:11:41 +0000

It blows my mind that the cockroach db founders started this 29 years ago.

Amazing to see this release.

New comment by jayzalowitz in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

jayzalowitz — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:32:04 +0000

I believe theres a related argument that congress might be making here, idk.

New comment by jayzalowitz in "H5N1 virus isolated from infected dairy worker is 100% lethal in ferrets"

jayzalowitz — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:03:56 +0000

I mean, how are we supposed to extract information without ferrets.

New comment by jayzalowitz in "U.S. National Debt Tops $35T for First Time"

jayzalowitz — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 17:25:50 +0000

We did it!!!

Great work from both sides.

Good teamwork.

New comment by jayzalowitz in "Let's consign CAP to the cabinet of curiosities"

jayzalowitz — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:21:47 +0000

and considering most cloud compute has a better backbone or internal routing, userspace should see this less.

That being said, if this is truly a problem for you CRDB is basically built with this all in mind.

New comment by jayzalowitz in "Show HN: S3HyperSync – Faster S3 sync tool – iterating with up to 100k files/s"

jayzalowitz — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 03:30:40 +0000

Anyone have time to dig in and say what tricks its using most?

New comment by jayzalowitz in "Meta Horizon OS"

jayzalowitz — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 20:34:39 +0000

I see the day to day for you, but bill gates is probably gonna get statues made of him for some of the things he is doing, especially in africa.

New comment by jayzalowitz in "After 111 years, SF finally moving to oust PG&E and create a public-power system"

jayzalowitz — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 14:04:28 +0000

I believe it also supplies most of the water to the area?