Hacker News: rozap

New comment by rozap in "Zed DeltaDB"

rozap — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:13:44 +0000

It's funny, zed started out really refreshing, and now it's degraded to the point where it's fairly unusable. Regularly it would tie up tons of resources on my fairly beefy laptop. I switched back to sublime and it is a breath of fresh air, I didn't realize how slow zed had gotten. It seems like maybe they lost their way a bit, but I recognize that also they need to make money presumably, and it's hard to do that with a large team and a focused product.

New comment by rozap in "The Cold Email"

rozap — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:40:41 +0000

Sometimes I think about how much of a pain it would be for our company to not use elixir. We would be spending so much time on mundane ops stuff and not building the thing. Such a lovely programming model and ecosystem.

New comment by rozap in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

rozap — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:00:01 +0000

"Great men of history do not introspect, move forward, go!"

New comment by rozap in "Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall"

rozap — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:42:01 +0000

Goomba fallacy

New comment by rozap in "98.css"

rozap — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:24:21 +0000

What are your favorite aero or xp css design systems?

New comment by rozap in "Meta's AI models are powering the first wave of Genesis Mission projects"

rozap — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:11:29 +0000

Really fascinating writeup — I particularly appreciated how they didn't hesitate to delve into the load bearing design choices — the implications are staggering.

New comment by rozap in "Giant Banana Pulled Over: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s of Times"

rozap — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:27:25 +0000

Yea, he should be driving the state sponsored crossover suv like the rest of the country.

New comment by rozap in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

rozap — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:38:51 +0000

Ea appears to primarily be a post hoc rationalization for someone's unhinged drive for money and power. A way for people who see themselves as good, but act according to a different set of principles, to launder their consciousness through a compelling sounding framework. Now, this isn't to say that all EA practicioners are like this, or that it's bad (I think doing some good is better than doing none, if we can quantify good...), or even that there's a better alternative in the system that we live in. But the whole thing just feels inauthentic and handwaves externalities in a way that always felt uncomfortable. So I'd hardly say EA has "proved" anything.

New comment by rozap in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

rozap — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:58:07 +0000

Very true. I work for an AI company, I use it every day, it's a huge value add for certain problems.

My heat pump died the other day and I called an HVAC place and got an AI agent, which was frustrating and not helpful. So I called a different HVAC place and spoke to someone who could actually help, then I gave them lots of money.

New comment by rozap in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

rozap — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:18:15 +0000

My experience is a bit different. They constantly update it and make it more unusable. At this point it's totally broken. Occasionally I open it, it loads for 30 seconds, I have a notification icon for a post I saw a month ago, then my feed shows the same picture of a guy I follow driving his rally car, which was posted several months ago, then I log off. It's truly bizarre what they've managed to do.

New comment by rozap in "CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers"

rozap — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:47:22 +0000

This is wild, have you written about it publicly, or can you expand on it here?

New comment by rozap in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"

rozap — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:17:22 +0000

So we're now in this world where everyone is instantly 10x more productive at turning their thoughts into code. Now, think about the coworkers you've had that are middling to mediocre. Do you want them to have a tool that makes them 10x more productive?

That's what I wonder about, what happens to all those folks.

New comment by rozap in "Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump"

rozap — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:03:01 +0000

This is a good point. We should just let all the ponzi schemes that are currently underway ride. Maybe they made good investments that will return 100x. The only way to know is to not intervene.

New comment by rozap in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

rozap — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:12:24 +0000

You're right it's a good thing, but I think they're maybe 10 years too late. The issue is that their product is hateful, non-functional, and my feelings toward the brand are probably more negative than any other brand I can think of. So why would I give them money? It's a tough sell.

New comment by rozap in "Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates"

rozap — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:32:31 +0000

I spent $111 for two quarts

New comment by rozap in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

rozap — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:38:08 +0000

Yes, this is happening. A friend of mine was telling me about a 25k LoC PR that was submitted by a product manager that he had to content with. And the politics are real - you can't just be like "no", but it's pretty tough to meaningfully review a 25k line PR, let alone from someone who knows fuck all about what they're doing and can't answer questions you might have.

New comment by rozap in "Greg Brockman interview [video]"

rozap — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:15:28 +0000

Every billionaire is a policy failure. It's not a question of equity, the issue is that no one human should be that powerful. It's very obvious that its leading to the US's rather quick and colorful decline. A small cohort of very powerful people are moving elections and policy to enrich themselves, everyone else be damned.

New comment by rozap in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

rozap — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:23:51 +0000

Saying that shunning the machine that is usurping human creativity and intelligence is "anti intellectual" is pretty funny

I'm not an AI hater but the implication of your comment is that being on the AI train is the intellectual position, which is wild, given the AI hype is almost entirely from CEOs, who are the furthest thing from.

New comment by rozap in "Your Most Improbable Life"

rozap — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:32:42 +0000

I was recently talking to a friend about this, the concept of a normie. A normie is kind of a mirage, it only exists in the realm of statistics, but when you look at any one individual who could fit that label, they are unlikely, so, can they really be a normie? Once internalized, the only real way out is to be less judgemental. Sure, you won't be friends with everyone, but the buckets are just not super useful when looking at an individual.

New comment by rozap in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

rozap — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:18:29 +0000

You're right, it does, and my edit was my emotion getting the better of me. But when you realize you're interacting with an account that only posts about the same few talking points and never contributed to tech discussion, I think it's a reasonable conclusion to come to. I was wound up enough to check his profile, which yea...don't do that, but he got me. Bot and troll accounts are good at that, whereas generally discussion on hn is alright, even if the viewpoints are disagreeable.