Hacker News: nzeid

New comment by nzeid in "Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it"

nzeid — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:24:59 +0000

No, Brussels is Belgium.

And Brussels is not the capitol of the EU because the EU is not a country.

New comment by nzeid in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

nzeid — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:21:19 +0000

This was surprisingly complicated for me on Altice/Optimum, which is why my home didn't have IPv6 for a while even after they started provisioning.

We actually have a /128 address only, and had to tweak several settings including enabling IPv6 masquerading (NAT).

I haven't the slightest clue why they didn't give us a block.

New comment by nzeid in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

nzeid — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:57:08 +0000

I'd describe that as passable engineering.

Good engineering is building the strongest bridge within budget and time.

New comment by nzeid in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

nzeid — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:58:36 +0000

What evidence is there that developers won't break even or profit? The demand is clearly there, it's a seller's market.

New comment by nzeid in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

nzeid — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:11:27 +0000

> and a world that didn't care about your feelings

Dead on.

New comment by nzeid in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

nzeid — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:05:04 +0000

UO didn't have a global concept of a level. You had a maximum number of points per character, which you allocated to skills by doing the corresponding activity. This is how you can skill cap your character without killing monsters or players.

New comment by nzeid in "GitHub Actions is shitting the bed again"

nzeid — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:09:44 +0000

Take this with a grain of salt - several Youtube exposés showed that the Actions code was utter shit before LLM coding was widely available. I'm assuming the tech debt finally sent the product off a cliff.

New comment by nzeid in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

nzeid — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:01:42 +0000

Wikipediocracy link gives "not authorized".

New comment by nzeid in "Chorba: A novel CRC32 implementation (2024)"

nzeid — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:42:52 +0000

All this talk of soup making me wonder if these are Arabic/ME derivatives.

Then again there are like 10 different ways to refer to soup in the various dialects.

New comment by nzeid in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

nzeid — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:07:19 +0000

On public transit or a street, maybe. But only maybe.

Are you willfully ignoring people at bars, night clubs, supermarkets, etc?

It's obvious 99% of the time whether or not the conversation is in the wrong place and wrong time.

New comment by nzeid in "Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance"

nzeid — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:29:07 +0000

Agree but a terrifyingly large number of tech companies have garbage security so the bullying is often unnecessary.

New comment by nzeid in "IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight"

nzeid — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:57:22 +0000

What? You have to demonstrate financial hardship or risk getting convicted.

New comment by nzeid in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

nzeid — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:21:45 +0000

Amazing. Took forever but I found my building in Brooklyn as well as the nearby dealership, gas station, and public school.

New comment by nzeid in "Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

nzeid — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:25:23 +0000

Would like to know this as well.

New comment by nzeid in "Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy"

nzeid — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:11:52 +0000

It's definitely way more nuanced than that. You have to approach exhaustion to get the body to eventually build strength. But you need to carefully time your rests/deloads and handle plateaus with more volume.

New comment by nzeid in "Software engineers should be a little bit cynical"

nzeid — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:43:14 +0000

Nah. Healthy cynicism is using your contributions to gain leverage while interviewing with said EvilCorp. It's not like the OSS is anonymous.

New comment by nzeid in "You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving"

nzeid — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:05:01 +0000

Agree to disagree. I don't appreciate that you glossed over the second worst economic crisis in US history.

New comment by nzeid in "A guide to local coding models"

nzeid — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:28:12 +0000

I appreciate the author's modesty but the flip-flopping was a little confusing. If I'm not mistaken, the conclusion is that by "self-hosting" you save money in all cases, but you cripple performance in scenarios where you need to squeeze out the kind of quality that requires hardware that's impractical to cobble together at home or within a laptop.

I am still toying with the notion of assembling an LLM tower with a few old GPUs but I don't use LLMs enough at the moment to justify it.

New comment by nzeid in "You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving"

nzeid — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:01:45 +0000

Man, posts like these always strike a nerve. I graduated in 2008. "Everything" wasn't just handed to us, we had our own share of horrible to deal with as well. And guess what? You'll get through it too.

I wasn't a fan of the article either but I think at any point in history you can make a convincing argument that the world is ending. I don't have any good advice as to how to defeat this perspective, but I am constantly reassured that because I'm not the only one that thinks things are shattered, there is a path to fixing it all.

Join some like-minded individuals and do something amazing. Fuck it, create a dating app without perverse incentives.

New comment by nzeid in "Android/Linux Dual Boot"

nzeid — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:56:57 +0000

I knew if I read enough comments I'd finally arrive at my favorite take.

Installing an APK directly through your phone is in fact NOT sideloading.