Hacker News: panza

New comment by panza in "Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball"

panza — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:38:28 +0000

Great job. I'd love to see this for the one true sport (cricket).

New comment by panza in "Emacs appearances in pop culture"

panza — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:33:29 +0000

I've often felt that Emacs is more popular in Japan than I'd expect. Could just be blue car syndrome on my part.

New comment by panza in "Aliens.gov Live"

panza — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:39:40 +0000

The administration's comms strategy is generally, ah, unconventional.

But this is especially odd given the Dept of War's apparently serious attempt at declassifying UAP files (www.war.gov/UFO/).

Intentionally or not, seems one would undermine the other.

New comment by panza in "Magnifica Humanitas"

panza — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:47:25 +0000

I can't speak for other denominations, but in Catholic philosophy, it's not so much a case of whether it attains consciousness (whatever that may mean now or in the future), but whether it has a soul.

From that perspective, no, machines cannot be baptized, nor can they be Christians, and Jesus cannot save them (because they are not fallen).

New comment by panza in "Show HN: AI agents play SimCity through a REST API"

panza — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:57:29 +0000

Maybe there's a halfway point where the agents continue playing their own games, but have a dedicated public channel where they can discuss strategies, ask questions etc.

In any case, what a great project.

New comment by panza in "Show HN: AI agents play SimCity through a REST API"

panza — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:35:43 +0000

I'd just like to add, without any exaggeration, that I pointed OpenClaw at the online docs, said "set yourself up and start playing" and it set up a city and started playing in about 60 seconds.

New comment by panza in "Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams"

panza — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:25:37 +0000

OpenClaw is more of a resident AI. It's always running, has access to loads of systems beyond coding (eg email, calendar, browser), and you have many ways to talk to it (like WhatsApp, Signal etc).

It's also an atomic bomb of a security hole waiting to explode.

New comment by panza in "Public static void main(String[] args) is dead"

panza — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 05:41:14 +0000

Yeah, I agree with this sentiment. The boilerplate was oddly helpful when I was starting out.

New comment by panza in "Grok 4"

panza — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 23:07:51 +0000

I have tried and failed to get any LLM to "tell me if you don't have a solution". There may be a way to prompt it, but I've not discovered it. It will always give you a confident answer.

New comment by panza in "Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work"

panza — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 23:58:56 +0000

What a nice companion piece to the article. KK is full of good vibes.

New comment by panza in "Something 'deeper' than Emacs, or am I looking for a unicorn?"

panza — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:34:42 +0000

The only editors that might meet that criteria are (Neo)Vim and VS Code.

New comment by panza in "What to Do"

panza — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 23:14:10 +0000

Both Catholics and Orthodox Christians (collectively making up the majority of Christians) would strongly object to this comment.

New comment by panza in "Internet Archive Europe – Bringing Collections to Life"

panza — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 21:54:36 +0000

I wonder if there's a commercial incentive for a news outlet to choose to do this - "we don't hide, never delete articles, preserve history etc..."

Or perhaps just some middle ground between 'we delete, change and hide articles' and 'this link is forever and here's the full diff history'.

New comment by panza in "GIMP 3.0"

panza — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 07:31:40 +0000

Given the negative sentiment around Adobe's cancellation flow, you'd think they'd advertise the fact that you get a 'free year of everything' and 'zero issues'. Seems weird!

New comment by panza in "GIMP 3.0"

panza — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 07:18:34 +0000

Correct. And yet people are still choosing it over Photoshop, and then using the money they saved for avocado toast.

New comment by panza in "GIMP 3.0"

panza — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 06:54:51 +0000

If Adobe can't compete with GIMP-and-avocado, perhaps the product isn't that great.

New comment by panza in "GIMP 3.0"

panza — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 05:52:14 +0000

When I open up GIMP I think of the image manipulation program I'm opening. I think most people do.

New comment by panza in "GIMP 3.0"

panza — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 05:17:25 +0000

And it's also the name of a venerable piece of software that stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program.

This is just a ginned-up non-controversy that should have stayed in 2019.

New comment by panza in "Did Google just brick the 2nd gen Chromecast?"

panza — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:14:09 +0000

Google's Twitter feed is responding, I imagine we'll see updates there: https://xcancel.com/madebygoogle/with_replies

New comment by panza in "How browsers really load web pages [video]"

panza — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 04:15:12 +0000

I think it's fine to ask a web developer how web pages are served.

If they can talk about network layer protocols, then that tells you something. If the next candidate's understanding stops at knitting libraries together, then that's also notable.

Even if it's not a discriminating factor in hiring, it still helps you flesh out the candidate.