Hacker News: rzz3

New comment by rzz3 in "Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal"

rzz3 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:21:53 +0000

In the age of "Twitter"? Why Twitter specifically, not the internet or social media? I honestly feel like Twitter is losing relevance. I learned about it from TikTok for what its worth, and then read more about it here on HN. I've never understood why people put Twitter on a pedestal that I feel it doesn't deserve. Though aside from that your point stands and I totally agree with you. In reality people's/companies' constitutional rights can be infringed easily and the courts take months or even years to stop said infringement.

New comment by rzz3 in "Startups in Hawaii?"

rzz3 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:25:42 +0000

Anyone have a magic link for the horrible site with a paywall?

New comment by rzz3 in "VS Code in the Terminal"

rzz3 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:25:06 +0000

But whyyyy :P

New comment by rzz3 in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

rzz3 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:25:37 +0000

As a native speaker, I have to ask it to rephrase 5-10 times a day. Sometimes I actually get mad and I tell it “I can’t answer that because I don’t know what the fuck load-bearing indirection means”. I’ve gotten so frustrated that I’ve ended a session and started over.

New comment by rzz3 in "Hacker News TUI"

rzz3 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:04:50 +0000

Np! I get it, but basically for a lot of us you burned your shot at marketing this by doing it before you were ready.

New comment by rzz3 in "Hacker News TUI"

rzz3 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:57:39 +0000

> Comment traversal is cycle-safe

What? When I saw you couldn’t even make the effort to tell your AI to at least make the README _pretend_ to be written for humans to read, I immediately knew this was slop and stopped looking further. Using AI to create this is totally fine, but there’s a minimal level of effort that needs to be put in.

New comment by rzz3 in "Reservation Apps Have Made Getting into a Restaurant a Nightmare"

rzz3 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:03:12 +0000

Not sure why people post content from these horrible media sites that require a subscription to read it. I have no interest in subscribing to the Guardian. Personally I wish HN would ban submissions from these predatory sites.

New comment by rzz3 in "Which web browser has no AI?"

rzz3 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:32:00 +0000

This doesn't really make any sense... why not just turn them off?

New comment by rzz3 in "Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now"

rzz3 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:23:41 +0000

To be fair I imagine it has very few users now; maybe a chicken and egg thing. Most people either get their news from a single news site or from social media these days. And no I'm not implying that no one verifies sources on these platforms, but either it's Reddit or Hacker News or TikTok or Twitter.

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.