Hacker News: rzz3

New comment by rzz3 in "Apple's hostile App Store rating system"

rzz3 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:45:25 +0000

I’m curious—if it was unobtrusive would you feel the same way? For example if it were a game, and after you beat a level or finished a game, if the summary screen showing the stats and points from your session just had, down at the bottom, “Do you love this game? Consider leaving us a review in the App Store!”? I hate the bag popups too, especially when they get in the way of whatever I’m trying to do in the app and I’m forced to either dismiss the dialog or go do it. But is even _mentioning it to you_ you without the nag pop up too much? Deserving of a one star review?

New comment by rzz3 in "The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work""

rzz3 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:21:24 +0000

Does this read a bit incoherent and hard to follow for anyone else? This pluralistic website itself seems a bit chaotic..

New comment by rzz3 in "Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus"

rzz3 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:05:19 +0000

This seems like something that would be great to open source; I can see it being a good building block for other globally distributed services.

New comment by rzz3 in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

rzz3 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:16:50 +0000

Someone found a fossilized T-shirt that had the DeCSS code on it.

New comment by rzz3 in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

rzz3 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:52:42 +0000

I don’t think there’s anything definitive. 400IU/day from one study is nothing if you’re deficient. 2000IU from another study is better, but even then we don’t seem to know much about absorption from these studies. For example, did it actually raise serum levels by 10ng/ml after a year, and how did THAT correlate to positive or negative health outcomes? K2 also seems to play an important symbiotic relationship with D, and seems notably absent from these studies.

New comment by rzz3 in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

rzz3 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:44:26 +0000

Has anyone done a RCT of D3+K2? K2 seems to be important in the absorption of D3. Another aspect that bothers me with these studies is that we’re simply supplementing the vitamin D, seemingly without measuring the change in blood levels. I took 2000IU (+K2) a day for many years in between testing my blood levels and still had <30ng/ml and had to go up to 5000IU/day. I’d like to see some further study.

New comment by rzz3 in "Third Places (NYC)"

rzz3 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 02:35:52 +0000

I tried to use it but I got tired of “tap to continue” after about 4 taps without knowing what this even was

New comment by rzz3 in "Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil"

rzz3 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:20:29 +0000

At this point, it’s just you misusing the word. You WERE correct; it did mean the builders rather than the breakers. But to greater society outside of the tech industry, hacking is hacking, they don’t need a word to describe builders, and crackers sounds dumb and no one outside the tech industry would know what you were talking about. A cracker is a snack and a dated slang word to refer to white people.

New comment by rzz3 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

rzz3 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:43:41 +0000

As you’ll see from my comment history, I’ve been consistent on how horrible this forcible TikTok acquisition was, and don’t forget that Biden was banning TikTok just the same before Trump got into office (and that Trump started this anti-TikTok action in his first administration before that). Yes, this administration is a special kind of awful, but the last one sucked too.

New comment by rzz3 in "Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks"

rzz3 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:41:45 +0000

https://archive.is/BeICs

New comment by rzz3 in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

rzz3 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:26:18 +0000

In so far as bracing for draconian tracking, I already would have never worked for Meta and especially wouldn’t now. I think we can vote with our feet and not work for companies that do this.

New comment by rzz3 in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

rzz3 — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:02:42 +0000

Sounds like something we should study more rather than dismiss.

New comment by rzz3 in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

rzz3 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:10:50 +0000

What struck me though is that OP did so much work to migrare the server with zero downtime. The _single_ big server. Something’s off here.

New comment by rzz3 in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

rzz3 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:04:54 +0000

To give them some credit, they support both positions because they were told to support them by the same people and never put much thought into it.

New comment by rzz3 in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

rzz3 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:01:50 +0000

And I’m so glad they did. Tiktok has brought so many positive changes to my life, and it never would have happened if they hadn’t built a product so good that it’s literally addictive. I don’t want the government to be my parent.

Additionally, Instagram and Facebook have tried their best to make their products as addictive as possible, yet their recommendation algorithm is so absolutely terrible (not to mention their ads) that I barely stay on the platform for five minutes when I use it.

New comment by rzz3 in "What will enter the public domain in 2026?"

rzz3 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 06:05:43 +0000

Then why is he listed in that table? I don’t get it.

New comment by rzz3 in "An illustrated introduction to linear algebra"

rzz3 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:52:48 +0000

I hadn’t, and your article lost me there to be honest. You didn’t explain the what, why, or when behind it, and it didn’t make sense to me at all. That said, I’m abnormally horrible at math.

New comment by rzz3 in "An illustrated introduction to linear algebra"

rzz3 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:51:49 +0000

As always with these types of things, it starts off well and I think “wow! finally someone is explaining math in a simple and straight forward way I can understand!”. And once again, they already lost me at Gaussian elimination.

New comment by rzz3 in "How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer"

rzz3 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:02:37 +0000

>Powerful stakeholders are typically so stupid and dysfunctional that it’s effectively impossible for you to identify their needs and deliver solutions to them

I’m sorry, WHAT? How old is this author? “I fail to communicate effectively with anyone who isn’t an engineer because I lack the required empathy and perspective” is very different from “the average stakeholder is stupid and dysfunctional”. I stopped reading at this point because author is clearly someone who doesn’t take responsibility for their own failures in communication.

New comment by rzz3 in "Show HN: Lingo – A linguistic database in Rust with nanosecond-level performance"

rzz3 — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 09:54:06 +0000

Really impressive work :)