Hacker News: lazzlazzlazz

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

lazzlazzlazz — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:37:54 +0000

Years ago Hacker News became deeply resistant of and resentful toward new technology, not coincidentally around the same time that it became more Reddit-like (consensus-brained, left-leaning politically, defensive, sclerotic). It's all part of the same phenomenon.

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "She won a religious exemption from using AI at work"

lazzlazzlazz — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:23:25 +0000

I wonder if, some day, people will request exemptions from being productive at work.

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite"

lazzlazzlazz — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:44:28 +0000

Yeah, bizarre and sad. And, unsurprisingly, Hacker News seems sympathetic. They are getting very old.

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

lazzlazzlazz — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:42:17 +0000

These are just a blend of Luddism, gatekeeping, and difficulty accepting new technology.

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

lazzlazzlazz — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:29:22 +0000

Where are all the guys in the Hacker News comments who have been explaining how bad LLMs are?

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

lazzlazzlazz — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:45:22 +0000

Insane to see this kind of comment on Hacker News. I suspect it's satire!

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "United Wizards of the Coast"

lazzlazzlazz — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:42:35 +0000

Awful news and a sign that WOTC has lost control of the company. The writing has been on the wall for WOTC for a while now, and this will exacerbate their decline. Amazing how unionists seize the body of their host when it is weakest.

EDIT: it is incredible how hostile HN is now to ant-union sentiment. None of the would-be founders here would support unionization at their companies. :)

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "Parallel agents in Zed"

lazzlazzlazz — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:53:56 +0000

I like Zed but the defaults for tabs (CTRL+Tab and CTRL+Shift+Tab step you through some diabolical tab selector in what is allegedly (but not really) recency order instead of just left/right. It really made me question their sanity.

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

lazzlazzlazz — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:45:00 +0000

This is a bit sad. The kind of people who post AI generated comments to farm reputation or exert undue influence will not be discouraged by politely asking them to stop. It's a toothless request that will only encourage people who clumsily police each other.

Without some kind of private proof of personhood enforced at the app level, this means nothing.

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs"

lazzlazzlazz — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 08:05:11 +0000

Exactly. And I'm downvoted below 0 for pointing this out. :)

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

lazzlazzlazz — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:10:04 +0000

Turns out that Dario was lying about not having heard from the Department of War, as reported by Undersecretary Emil Michael:

https://x.com/USWREMichael/status/2027568070034608173

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "We Will Not Be Divided"

lazzlazzlazz — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:48:24 +0000

The signatories of this site are leaping at a misguided opportunity for moral credit, when the reality is that they're getting whipped into a left-leaning frenzy.

As Undersecretary Jeremy Lewin clarified today[1], these weighty decisions should not be made by activists inside companies, but made by laws and legitimate government.

[1]: https://x.com/UnderSecretaryF/status/2027594072811098230

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "Aqua: A CLI message tool for AI agents"

lazzlazzlazz — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:42:09 +0000

I've been using XMTP[1] and their agent SDK[2] for agent-to-agent and user-to-agent messaging. Since it's the same network, you can reach other peoples' agents (and all users). Another huge advantage is you don't have to stand up your own infrastructure.

[1]: https://xmtp.org/

[2]: https://github.com/xmtp/xmtp-js

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

lazzlazzlazz — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 04:27:34 +0000

Apple is believed to be adding multispectral imaging to future generations of the iPhone. This and 3d mapping are more than enough to defeat the "point the camera at a high res screen" trick.

The issue is that age verifiers (like Discord) are not really trying.

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model cites Grokipedia"

lazzlazzlazz — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:34:08 +0000

This makes sense. I already use Grokipedia maybe 50% of the time. If you really dig into things, it is - incredibly - more accurate. I often find glaring errors or biases in Wikipedia, especially over the last 5 years.

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"

lazzlazzlazz — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:54:42 +0000

Many will downvote this, but this is profound validation of the concern that Europe is nearly suicidally trending toward what will be a disastrous relationship with China. Only the US seems to appreciate the risks. Complete insanity, not unlike German denuclearization, etc.

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

lazzlazzlazz — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:14:37 +0000

Every time I've logged into Bitchat, nobody appears to be online - across the entire United States.

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "Launching the Handmade Software Foundation"

lazzlazzlazz — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 07:53:28 +0000

Is the software better, though?

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

lazzlazzlazz — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 06:40:07 +0000

Right. A lot of people when they say "minimal" mean "simple looking at first glance", and it rarely is.

New comment by lazzlazzlazz in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

lazzlazzlazz — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:20:12 +0000

Europe's censorious behavior has become completely absurd, and reading the Italian docs (as several people here have already shared) doesn't make me more sympathetic. It's a real shame, and I'm disappointed that the dream of an internet free from censorship and manipulation seems to be forgotten by so many here - in favor of political squabbling.