Hacker News: lizardking

New comment by lizardking in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

lizardking — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:05:56 +0000

Some of the most complex problems I've ever solved were solved when I was mowing my own lawn with a push mower. Just in a trance. Many of the best life decisions I've ever made were when I was on a walk, thinking things through.

New comment by lizardking in "Drone Swarms: Uncomfortably Plausible"

lizardking — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:53:24 +0000

Got em

New comment by lizardking in "IDF struggles to curb endless feed of soldiers posting misdeeds on social media"

lizardking — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:06:06 +0000

Massie's primary in Kentucky today will be quite the test.

New comment by lizardking in "Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'"

lizardking — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:54:34 +0000

Unless the power is out

https://abc7news.com/post/san-francisco-leaders-press-waymo-...

New comment by lizardking in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"

lizardking — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:28:17 +0000

There is a difference between the "smart" thing to do and what's considered to be the right opinion by "smart" people. Lobotomies were endorsed by elite medical opinion (Moniz won a Nobel for it in 1949). Smart-person consensus often doesn't survive contact with reality. Smart people are as susceptible to groupthink, moral panics, and manias as anybody else.

New comment by lizardking in "Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer"

lizardking — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:45:01 +0000

"It's not {X} it's {Y}!"

I don't think a human being even proof read this before hitting publish

New comment by lizardking in "VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI"

lizardking — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:19:46 +0000

Microsoft continues to be completely incapable of coming up with good names for their products and services

New comment by lizardking in "The Utopia of the Family Computer"

lizardking — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:02:40 +0000

The Famicom was so cool in a way that the NES just never intended to be. Disk drives, a modem (online banking!), super funky aesthetics for the console and the carts, etc. Very ahead of its time.

New comment by lizardking in "Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day"

lizardking — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:09:23 +0000

You're probably thinking of Mastadon

New comment by lizardking in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

lizardking — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:36:16 +0000

Adding "trying McDonald's" to my long list of reasons to travel to Japan.

New comment by lizardking in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

lizardking — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:34:45 +0000

Yeah, I don't think it's a feature unique to open claw in anyway. But combined with the memory of what I have going on and the other personal/business context it ended up being a fun experiment that didn't take me long to set up.

New comment by lizardking in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

lizardking — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:18:13 +0000

I use it, but it feels half-baked. And seemingly more so with each successive release, often including changes that just break my existing setup. I don't feel like a tool that is ready for a non-developer audience.

That said, it does a few things for me that are useful. I have it run a nightly scan of Hacker News and Twitter for topics that interest me, summarizing the stories and the conversations around them. It's a nice daily digest. It also reads my personal email account, reminding me of anything I need to take care of that day for my kids, bills, or whatever else I need to worry about. I also have it do nightly builds for something random, one with codex, one with a local model, and run a comparative analysis between the two implementations.

New comment by lizardking in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

lizardking — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:45:17 +0000

I used my employer's fitness stipend to buy a GoRuck GR2, and I have no regrets. There is just a level of build quality that I desperately wish I could find in the other fitness and travel items I buy.

New comment by lizardking in "We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video]"

lizardking — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:42:56 +0000

Looks roughly as smooth as it looked on my 25mhz 386

New comment by lizardking in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

lizardking — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:39:16 +0000

This is the most vibe-coded looking website possible

New comment by lizardking in "NanoClaw's architecture is a masterclass in doing less"

lizardking — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:24:39 +0000

I can hear this in Leonard Nimoy's voice from Civ IV

New comment by lizardking in "Bernie Sanders: "AI Is a Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear""

lizardking — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:35:33 +0000

I feel like we must be visiting different websites.

New comment by lizardking in "The CMS is dead, long live the CMS"

lizardking — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:23:31 +0000

A CMS is for content authors, not developers. AI making it easier to build or re-platform sites doesn’t change the need for an admin UI that non-technical people can actually use, or the need for access control, governance, and approval workflows around how content gets changed.

If anything, I’d expect more CMS work to occur as the cost of building, migrating, and redesigning sites keeps dropping.

New comment by lizardking in "The SpaceX IPO: retail investor notes"

lizardking — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:05:45 +0000

Curmudgeon News

New comment by lizardking in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

lizardking — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:10:26 +0000

"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must"