Hacker News: pabzu

New comment by pabzu in "Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments"

pabzu — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:59:09 +0000

That's so cool! is it possible to add a linux distro trends ?

New comment by pabzu in "Let Me Pay for Firefox"

pabzu — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 10:00:31 +0000

Fair. My main disagreement is with the "general principle" the original poster used to support their argument regarding MoCo.

New comment by pabzu in "Let me pay for Firefox"

pabzu — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 09:48:41 +0000

The post seems to present a false dichotomy:

    FOSS leads to enshittification, advertising, and bad practices.

    Paid software ensures quality assurance.

I believe counter-examples exist for both models. Many FOSS projects have avoided becoming tools for user exploitation, while numerous paid software products have deteriorated due to corporate greed.

New comment by pabzu in "MCP is eating the world"

pabzu — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:33:08 +0000

Another hyped/clickbait headline about a "new technology" that will "transform everything"

written by a company that sells this "new technology".

New comment by pabzu in "How to sell tickets fairly"

pabzu — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 15:18:54 +0000

As far as I know all the auction mechanisms are equal[1], in the sense that: 1. the items are assigned to the same bidders (paying the same) 2. the revenue of the auctioneer is the same

In that sense you could chose the system that fits you the most. I personally think that selling tickets via auction is indesirable for other reasons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_equivalence

New comment by pabzu in "Graduate Student’s Side Project Proves Prime Number Conjecture"

pabzu — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 02:53:36 +0000

this guy raise procrastination to a whole new level