Hacker News: lazystar

New comment by lazystar in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

lazystar — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:53:45 +0000

> I mean it's possible that I just haven't found the secret sauce

its possible that no one cracks it during the window of time where the product is useful and would pose a risk if cracked, but never forget that the first rule of security is nothing is ever 100% secure.

New comment by lazystar in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

lazystar — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:30:45 +0000

well... just because you know how to ssh into the prod DNS host and manually update the prod zone files in vim to remove orphan A records + duplicate CNAME records, in order to fix an ip address exhaustion issue that is blocking new VM's from spinning up for your customers... it doesnt mean that you should, lol.

that was 8 years ago in my first gig. now i kinda wonder... having those skills made it easier to put off implementing a robust long term solution. it was playing with fire, sure, but i was a rookie

New comment by lazystar in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

lazystar — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:16:49 +0000

or more likely, like we the public do not have the full context of whats going on behind the scenes.

New comment by lazystar in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

lazystar — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:14:55 +0000

every time this comes up I feel it's worth reminding people that this already happened before in American history - 1890's and the robber baron industrialists that monopolized everything.

New comment by lazystar in "Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates"

lazystar — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:58:34 +0000

tc less than 190k. in this year's salary meeting thing in april, i asked my manager if they were trying to get rid of me lol.

New comment by lazystar in "Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates"

lazystar — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:38:43 +0000

been here 6 years, making less than that first top left number, 190k.

idk what to do about it. every manager just gets a cheshire cat grin whenever i complain about it. i know i should boomerang but ugh.

New comment by lazystar in "Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates"

lazystar — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:59:12 +0000

same here. gas is $6 in seattle; every business uses gas, explains the extreme cost of living. i'm going broke working for AWS.

New comment by lazystar in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

lazystar — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:54:07 +0000

> Because if you tell me directly that you have asked Claude, next time I will probably ask Claude directly as I don’t need you.

and what if i tell you i asked stack overflow?

New comment by lazystar in "The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers"

lazystar — Sun, 24 May 2026 04:14:24 +0000

well, once they do, kohberger and who knows how many others will be let loose on the public. sets up a hell of a bargaining chip for the feds to prevent it going to the supreme court.

also makes you wonder if any of this would happen if the usage and post trial application of the death penalty were higher. less of a bargaining chip.

New comment by lazystar in "The other half of AI safety"

lazystar — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:14:04 +0000

the counterpoint is that allowing unlimited discourse places an enourmous amount pf power in the hands of the chatbot owner, who has access to all logs and input from each user. this prevents one chatbot owner from advertising "you can say anything here!!" then using the logs as blackmail down the road.

New comment by lazystar in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

lazystar — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:32:24 +0000

> Earlier in October, an Amazon Web Services incident resulted in Canvas and Piazza outages that lasted around 12 hours.

...what does that DDB DNS issue have to do with anything?

New comment by lazystar in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

lazystar — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:44:15 +0000

> doesn't generate any for later.

"any" is quite an assumption.

New comment by lazystar in "March heat in American west has left snowpack at record-low levels"

lazystar — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:47:07 +0000

I don't see the point in comparing photos of snow coverage in feb 2026 to the same area in march 2026. March is a spring month, of course snow coverage will be worse. Itd be more shocking if the snow coverage increased. they should show march 2026 vs. march 2025/2024/2023 etc.

New comment by lazystar in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

lazystar — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:25:24 +0000

aye, fair assessment.

funny story, figured out the root cause behind 3 years of brain fog just a few hours after i left this comment. it wasnt long covid; turns out my eyes were so swollen from screentime, that they were cutting off blood flow to my prefrontal cortex. started using a portable eye massage device, and poof - back to normal. just have to clean up the mistakes i made while i was sleep deprived and caveman like.

New comment by lazystar in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

lazystar — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:25:00 +0000

aye, totally correct.

New comment by lazystar in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

lazystar — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:53:41 +0000

my team is anti-AI. my code review requests are ignored, or are treated more strictly than others. it feels coordinated - i will have to push back the launch date of my project as a result.

another teammate added a length check to an input field, and his request was merged near instantly, even though it had zero unit testing. this team is incredibly cooked in the long term, i just need to ensure that i survive the short term somehow.

New comment by lazystar in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

lazystar — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:42:04 +0000

games are global - NFL is solely american.

New comment by lazystar in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

lazystar — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:32:00 +0000

> Or, do you tell it the basic functionality you want, test it out, then add feature after feature that you want, sometimes dropping them and sometimes adding new ones that you thought of as your worked

the problem with this is long term maintainability. it works - and the engineer understands how it works - but a) the AI does not prioritize cleanup/organization/naming, and b) there's a blind spot/boiling frog type of phenomenon that can prevent the engineer from spotting the growing problem. the codebase becomes recognizable only to them. the engineer sees all features working, all bugs fixed, 90% test coverage, and submits it for a PR.

the engineer tasked with reviewing the PR will treat it as slop.

New comment by lazystar in "Agents that run while I sleep"

lazystar — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:44:02 +0000

> How's that not criminal

Well, a) it's a hobby, and b) this is still a free country/free society.

New comment by lazystar in "Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues"

lazystar — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:50:33 +0000

at the top there's Neil Pert, then a huge gap, then anyone else.