Hacker News: mkzetta

New comment by mkzetta in "Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope"

mkzetta — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:30:04 +0000

I'm assuming this is driven by stakeholders in the legacy porn business prompted to anticompetitive action by generative AI tools seriously threatening their monopoly on sexual content for the first time. There has always been a huge barrier to entry into porn for non-seedy, non-abusive, and mentally stable people. Art-based content like games are both much easier to create without a human trafficking network and are usually far more wholesome than the prevalent legacy porn tropes, which often center around incest, coercion, chauvinistic infidelity or miscegenation, and other disgusting themes. I am hoping there are people archiving this content for future sociological study.

New comment by mkzetta in "Amazon Web Services dark patterns (2024)"

mkzetta — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 23:19:24 +0000

How is it that they can set up a quantum computer but not up-front billing?

New comment by mkzetta in "Four Years of Jai (2024)"

mkzetta — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 18:44:34 +0000

The hate he is receiving is bizarre. It takes guts to be opinionated - you are effectively spilling your mind (and heart) to people. And yet some people will assume the worst about you even if it's an exact inversion of the truth.

New comment by mkzetta in "Four Years of Jai (2024)"

mkzetta — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 18:42:18 +0000

He routinely livestreams himself working on the language. He doesn't seem afraid of attention.

New comment by mkzetta in "Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by"

mkzetta — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 11:04:21 +0000

Pretending to work is self-degrading. Fix whatever authority problem incentives sending out false signals instead.

New comment by mkzetta in "After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem"

mkzetta — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:44:31 +0000

How can you claim to know where it ends? This itself sounds like mental rot.

New comment by mkzetta in "We were wrong about GPUs"

mkzetta — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 04:30:42 +0000

It's not sad until it becomes self-aware.