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New comment by nzeid in "Companies promote incompetent employees to management to limit damage they do"

nzeid — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:04:03 +0000

The edit is dead on and this is the very first thing that crossed my mind.

Bad managers hollow out companies. It's quite devastating.

New comment by nzeid in "Cloudflare's AI Psychosis"

nzeid — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:18:54 +0000

The blog implies that CF's core business is suffering because of added investment in what the author describes as AI. See their useEffect bug as an example.

EDIT: To be clear, my employer still uses CF and I don't see any evidence that it's gotten worse.

New comment by nzeid in "Cloudflare's AI Psychosis"

nzeid — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:09:17 +0000

This is definitely as opinionated as an opinion piece can go. Worth mentioning I don't use CF anywhere or care about it... but my employer does.

I can really only remember one catastrophic outage. It involved some part of CF that had no redundancy, and the incident was followed by a pretty whiny blog about a data center.

That's pretty much it. There were other minor outages but I'm not aware that it affected business.

Despite the disclaimer I think the author should explain precisely how "AI product mindset" or whatever is actually translating to bad outcomes.

New comment by nzeid in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"

nzeid — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:49:45 +0000

Worth noting that there's no security in a system that abusively collects your data. That goes for children as well.

New comment by nzeid in "A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention"

nzeid — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:55:49 +0000

This post is inaccurate at its face but for those who are curious, Canada's GDP is in the low trillions of USD and its growth stagnated (but remained positive) the past several months.

By contrast, several US states like Vermont and Alaska have GDP in the double digit billions, while others like South Dakota and Nebraska shrunk.

New comment by nzeid in "Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents"

nzeid — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:47:06 +0000

This is a bit of a strawman. The parent comment wasn't suggesting that the inherent defects magically disappear nor was it suggesting that local inference today is sufficient for all tasks.

At the heart of it, self-hosting liberates your use cases from all the horribly opaque configuration, shadow prompting, etc. And local models are only getting better and more diverse every month.

New comment by nzeid in "A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review"

nzeid — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:12:30 +0000

I didn't read the Ramp article but this reads like a post hoc fallacy. Companies with 2x revenue have money to spend on AI. Companies with 1.15x revenue don't.

New comment by nzeid in "Codex Resets"

nzeid — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:33:46 +0000

Forgive my ignorance... Usage limits reset for 100% of customers at the same instant?

New comment by nzeid in "We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput"

nzeid — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:25:04 +0000

Was there a disadvantage to using HAProxy + multiple PGBouncer instances?

New comment by nzeid in "I think I have LLM burnout"

nzeid — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:31:51 +0000

Which is why test generation has to be carefully guided as well, and this is something at which I've incidentally been fast. Ultimately it's a constant battle between LLM handholding and doing things yourself.

New comment by nzeid in "I Think I Have LLM Burnout"

nzeid — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:21:16 +0000

Yep.

New comment by nzeid in "I think I have LLM burnout"

nzeid — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:08:11 +0000

I do not have the burnout but I certainly operate similarly to the author. I continue to be unable to establish a workflow where allowing the LLM to generate code that I review is faster than writing the code myself. Literally the only two ways out of this dilemma is to blindly trust what was generated or to generate an uncharacteristically exhaustive suite of unit tests to validate every possible scenario. I just write the business logic myself and have the LLM do a lot of the rest. Boilerplate falls into the latter as well.

New comment by nzeid in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

nzeid — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:56:54 +0000

Taken out of context, you're right. But the parent comment couldn't buy these books even if they wanted to. I'd say there's a consensus that the primary motivation for piracy is hurdles to access having nothing to do with payment.

New comment by nzeid in "Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe"

nzeid — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:06:29 +0000

> Recent ideas suggest that little red dots could be black holes cocooned in thick gas, possibly representing a completely new type of object called a black hole star, in which the tight shroud of gas emits light like a stellar atmosphere.

Just be sure to name the members of Soundgarden on the paper.

New comment by nzeid in "MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds"

nzeid — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 01:29:24 +0000

> After this minor hiccup, the experience with MSI was actually quite pleasant. They prepared a patch for the vulnerability within two days of me reporting it and told me which MSI Center release it was to be bundled with, and when they planned to release the new version.

Was NOT expecting a happy ending.

I don't know if the part of MSI Center with the pipe vulnerability is automatically installed on desktops but this is the terribly written software that you need to turn off all the obnoxious lights on your MB and DRAM.

New comment by nzeid in "Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402"

nzeid — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:07:04 +0000

I'm old-man-yelling-at-the-clouds here. Everyone just uses Cloudflare, which is not a bad thing by itself. But do they _have_ to? Is managing your own edge really that terrifying?

New comment by nzeid in "Half-Life 2 in a Browser"

nzeid — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:25:36 +0000

What!? Amazing.

New comment by nzeid in "My two-part desk setup (2025)"

nzeid — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:31:29 +0000

I want this. It's the reason why every time I shop for desks I look for workbenches. Desks are always TINY and I never understood why.

New comment by nzeid in "Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks"

nzeid — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:42:48 +0000

> # External mode — you manage llama-server, forge proxies it

> python -m forge.proxy --backend-url http://localhost:8080 --port 8081

This is a good example because I've currently stuck with llama.cpp's UI. I can read your code (or throw Gemma at it =p ) but thought I'd ask anyway.

In this example, what is it exactly that your proxy is fortifying? The HTTP SSE requests? (Those would be `/chat/completions`.)

New comment by nzeid in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

nzeid — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:14:29 +0000

This fixation on "importance" is laughable. It is "insane" to drop Gmail because it makes them a shitload of money. That is how corporations work.