Hacker News: nazgulsenpai

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Task Manager for Mac (from author of Windows TaskManager)"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:49:33 +0000

Did you know David Plummer made Task Manager? Because David Plummer was the original author of Task Manager.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Online Friends Are Real Friends"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:41:36 +0000

I work fulltime and have 2 kids still at home by myself. I made my two best friends on MMORPGs, one on FFXIV almost 10 years ago now, and one in Black Desert just talking about black metal bands we both liked in server chat.

I have acquaintances IRL, mostly from work. But my actual friends are people who I've never met face-to-face.

Microsoft Sam starts his car

nazgulsenpai — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:15:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ1LbeaU_LI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080447

Points: 3

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New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

nazgulsenpai — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:25:24 +0000

Need to print a tshirt with the weights of Kimi 3

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs"

nazgulsenpai — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:12:03 +0000

Tangential but one day when bored at work, I browsed the GitHub discussions for Helix, my main text editor, and the most active thread was regarding adopting an LLM policy for the repo[0]. The maintainer thought it would be beneficial to use an LLM policy similar to Ghostty which is AI friendly with human review. Now the whole topic is "brigaded" by a small number of extremely passionate anti-AI voices that immediately react positively to any pushback against AI usage and negatively to anyone who isn't staunchly anti-AI. Even when presented with, in my opinion, reasonable middle-ground such as only merging maintainable code, the counter-arguments are mostly against the harms of AI (mostly datacenter related) dismissing AI outright and refusal give an any ground.

It's a real impasse where the pro-AI or indifferent opinions seem to simply stop posting when they realize there is going to be no real debate, and the anti-AI individuals swarm on any new input.

My personal opinion is I don't care either way -- AI is a tool and if contributors use that tool to improve code or the product, I could care less. I just find this interesting.

[0] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/15408

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

nazgulsenpai — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:26:07 +0000

I think it's as simple as looking at the incentive structure. The Chinese gov't has incentive to kneecap US monopoly on frontier models. It makes sense for them to continue down this course if it strengthens their position.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Kimi K3 is now live"

nazgulsenpai — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:11:01 +0000

Same but 100% serious

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Making 768 servers look like 1"

nazgulsenpai — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:05:18 +0000

> Most applications you've ever used function in this way, or at least did early in their existence.

I'm old enough that this is not true.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

nazgulsenpai — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:25:47 +0000

Sadly, I agree with you. I don't like it, but it seems pretty clear.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:32:21 +0000

I hear people complaining nonstop about the state of gaming but man, I stopped playing AAA years ago organically and started playing AA and indie and it's been wonderful. Between Steam & GoG sales and using Epic Game Store only for all of their free stuff, my backlog grows and grows.

Obviously this is subjective, but try some of that $5-10 stuff on Steam or GoG and you might be surprised how much there is to play out there. I'm playing Dread Delusion right now and it is amazing (estimate I'm 50% done but playing blind), Wicked Seed before that, Deformed before that, etc.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:51:23 +0000

There's a whole branch of theoretical physics dedicated to this.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Steam Machine launches today"

nazgulsenpai — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:28:42 +0000

There's also the kid factor if you're playing on the TV in the living room. Kids have a way of walking in at the worst time. As someone who enjoys violent titles, I get it.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Hundreds of AUR packages compromised"

nazgulsenpai — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:06:12 +0000

That NSFW domain link in the article -- I appreciate the heads up :)

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Fox to buy Roku"

nazgulsenpai — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:34:45 +0000

Then my little Celeron junker will also double as a router. Probably going to have do that anyway since YouTube on PS4 and Roku both serve adds from (what I assume are) hardcoded IP addresses.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

nazgulsenpai — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:33:36 +0000

Idealistically, actual consumer driven capitalism would be much closer to supply/ & demand than this (imo) almost completely artificial, government sponsored bubble. I think pricing before this current bubble reflects that.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Fox to buy Roku"

nazgulsenpai — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:27:55 +0000

I bought a 42" Hisense Roku TV for like $120 with no prior research from Walmart a few years ago when my old plasma finally passed through to the great beyond. The interface was so clean and pleasant to use and there aren't ads stuffed everywhere.

Went to a friend's house and he had a Roku Express player and his was littered with ads and the whole UI was Christmas themed.

Moral of the story is pihole is OP.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:21:55 +0000

I agree. It seems reasonable to me in the sense that - only one year - only affects new agreements and not current buildouts - gives times for politicians to do whatever it is they need to do to satisfy their constituents

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:03:31 +0000

This. When I use my work laptop, I find myself pressing the spacebar constantly. edit: instead of "clicking"

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:57:45 +0000

I clicked the article expecting to see some feel-good political grandstanding (I'm a bit cynical these days) but honestly, this seems like a decent approach. Pause approvals for a year giving breathing room for researching the impacts, and hopefully address them.

Microsoft NetMeeting changed Windows forever [video]

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:50:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhay6VryyvE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330370

Points: 5

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