Hacker News: syngrog66

New comment by syngrog66 in "Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries"

syngrog66 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:37:03 +0000

Claude-ware

New comment by syngrog66 in "Authorize, don't authenticate"

syngrog66 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:54:18 +0000

authenticate: who are you?

authorize: what do you want?

account/audit: what did you do?

New comment by syngrog66 in "Seedance 2.5"

syngrog66 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:40:18 +0000

distributed!

New comment by syngrog66 in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

syngrog66 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:46:44 +0000

save money. buy low, sell high. dont become a spendthrift. every dollar put toward something one doesnt need is a dollar which will not be available later for something needed. seek highest income for one's time. etc etc etc

no AI needed

New comment by syngrog66 in "Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion"

syngrog66 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:36:29 +0000

The root problem is that an LLM is like an automated sociopath. One whose source is opaque and effectively secretive. And the dominant AI vendors have a track record of carelessness and poor QA. "Ship it!" then hype.

And they lie and misrepresent, repeatedly, in spite of evidence we can see independently with our own eyes.

New comment by syngrog66 in "We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447"

syngrog66 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:40:24 +0000

what a circus

New comment by syngrog66 in "How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?"

syngrog66 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:18:45 +0000

I've "seen enough" by now

New comment by syngrog66 in "Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site"

syngrog66 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:14:57 +0000

thank you for bringing another TUI into the world!

New comment by syngrog66 in "Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings"

syngrog66 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:28:58 +0000

Upon first read of headline I assumed, not unreasonably, that it was a story about how Amazon.com was paying for some wildlife crossings as a kind of community philanthropy.

New comment by syngrog66 in "Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs"

syngrog66 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:08:40 +0000

thank you for speaking up

New comment by syngrog66 in "Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents"

syngrog66 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:38:29 +0000

yikes

New comment by syngrog66 in "I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation"

syngrog66 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 01:43:12 +0000

I once received a suspiciously too good to be true job offer, and at the last minute they surprised me by insisting I use a specific laptop they insisted on mailing me. One they would possess prior to me, and "configure" as superuser, before giving to me to use while working for them.

I declined, as diplomatically as I could. I should not have to spell out in precise detail how dangerous to me their proposal was. In the eyes of an adversary/APT predator: ignorant --> naive --> gullible --> prey --> profit. Rinse, repeat, scale up.

New comment by syngrog66 in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

syngrog66 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 01:10:10 +0000

vi slides.md

screenshare to taste

New comment by syngrog66 in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

syngrog66 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:42:16 +0000

world's smallest violin plays...

New comment by syngrog66 in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

syngrog66 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:32:55 +0000

awful

New comment by syngrog66 in "Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse"

syngrog66 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:06:48 +0000

AI is making lots of jobs and workplaces worse.

New comment by syngrog66 in "Solod: Go can be a better C"

syngrog66 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:51:27 +0000

The worst of both worlds.

New comment by syngrog66 in "Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel"

syngrog66 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:05:53 +0000

fair enough

New comment by syngrog66 in "Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel"

syngrog66 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:32:19 +0000

Doom and Quake had drop-down command consoles too that let the user change the game's state -- I've included such features in some of my GUI, realtime engine games too. but I would never promote any as a "command line" game

New comment by syngrog66 in "Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel"

syngrog66 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:29:35 +0000

The video for Duskers 2 in the linked article was of a very graphical, real-time engine style game with sound, music and animation

title is misleading if not abusive of our time