Hacker News: panzagl

New comment by panzagl in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

panzagl — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:49:42 +0000

It's the Innsmouth look.

New comment by panzagl in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

panzagl — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:00:05 +0000

Ah yes, the classic Mac user on Hacker News that thinks they're a tech guy. :-)

New comment by panzagl in "The real cost of owning a home"

panzagl — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:34:57 +0000

Or your office/building manager at work.

New comment by panzagl in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

panzagl — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:47:00 +0000

Bambu had its requirement to go through their servers since before the Ukraine war, though it has gotten progressively harder to work around.

New comment by panzagl in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

panzagl — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:06:18 +0000

As far as I can tell the main crime Palantir commits is actually delivering what it's asked for, instead of just stringing the government along like the other contractors do.

New comment by panzagl in "Books are not too expensive"

panzagl — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:11:59 +0000

The other thing missing is that a 1960's hardback is a much higher quality item than most modern hardbacks- sewn binding, nicer paper, better cover materials, etc. Hard covers today are cheaply made from inferior materials.

New comment by panzagl in "Books are not too expensive"

panzagl — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:05:16 +0000

The real problem is books are too cheap- as in cheaply made perfect bound pieces of shit with a bit of cardboard glued on that don't open correctly filled with nasty lightweight textureless bleached paper covered with mis-registered text and blobs of ink from under-maintained presses. We're being charged a premium for a demonstrably inferior product.

New comment by panzagl in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

panzagl — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:07:53 +0000

Maybe it's only this way in my suburban US area, but no.

New comment by panzagl in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"

panzagl — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:30:35 +0000

I think the main thing he's produced using Gas Town is Gas Town itself.

New comment by panzagl in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

panzagl — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:56:17 +0000

This article is like a cockroach in a restaurant dining room. Azure has one, GCP/AWS does not.

New comment by panzagl in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

panzagl — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:22:52 +0000

Unplug fax, no one gets benefits that day, simple fix and the office's day just got a little easier. What was already printed goes in the shred bin.

New comment by panzagl in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

panzagl — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:53:02 +0000

0.5% is like the literal definition of a rounding error.

New comment by panzagl in "Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found"

panzagl — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:38:05 +0000

Ah, so you're worried about the review team being misrepresented, not that Azure is shit.

New comment by panzagl in "Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found"

panzagl — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:31:48 +0000

It's only libelous if it's not true. This vulnerability says otherwise.

New comment by panzagl in "Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found"

panzagl — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:29:20 +0000

In those types of reviews/audits, documentation is the first indicator of whether a security organization has their act together. It's about building a trust relationship between the accreditor and contractor that will have to endure for years, as nation-state level actors throw their resources at finding vulnerabilities. MS couldn't do this or couldn't be bothered to do this. So shit documentation -> shit security processes and operations -> shit security -> shit cloud product in a government context. So the title wasn't that much of a stretch.

New comment by panzagl in "Honda is killing its EVs"

panzagl — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:49:50 +0000

Quick google math says you get 6 tires from a barrel of oil vs roughly 20 gallons of gas. Unless EVs mean you change tires every 300 miles or so I think we're good.

New comment by panzagl in "The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure"

panzagl — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:06:17 +0000

Rockets with unrestricted flow are called bombs.

New comment by panzagl in "The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure"

panzagl — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:19:17 +0000

> More and more promising treatments are accumulating in the pipeline, fueled by an explosion of new therapeutic modalities, ranging from mRNA to better peptides and more recently, by AI.

If the pipeline is backed up you put a bigger pipe in place, not get rid of it and hope some of the resulting flood goes where you want.

New comment by panzagl in "US Job Market Visualizer – Andrej Karpathy"

panzagl — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:08:13 +0000

There are a lot of education and curriculum companies pitching basically this- replace those 'expensive' teachers with aides making minimum wage as all they need to do is recite curriculum and help them log in to be evaluated.

New comment by panzagl in "Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found"

panzagl — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:08:22 +0000

Risk or benefit?