Hacker News: sznio

New comment by sznio in "Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026"

sznio — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:59:01 +0000

> Making a website should be the easiest fucking thing in the world by now. There should be a program that you can use to spit out a website as easy as Word spits out words on paper

squarespace?

> and we - us fucking foss nerds or whoever - should've made it.

wordpress?

New comment by sznio in "IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake"

sznio — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:52:11 +0000

except in ipv4 getting a link-local address means "I fucked up DHCP" and isn't really meant to be a feature it didn't really work in ipv4 land, and as per the OP, doesn't work in ipv6 land too. Just give everything a proper address and leave link-local to mdns or whatever it was meant to support

New comment by sznio in "Various LLM Smells"

sznio — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:31:33 +0000

I use qwen3.5 locally and it often outputs a lot of claude-isms. Claude actually stopped telling me that I'm absolutely right with every message, but Qwen still does.

I think that the convergence of these tics is just a symptom of distillation.

New comment by sznio in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

sznio — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:51:55 +0000

>But why the fuck should any company pay for an ad when the user explicitly searched for their product?

If you don't buy out the top-place for the query, someone else will. In a better case a competitor - imagine Facebook Marketplace being the top result for "ebay". In the worst - a phishing site. The latter happens quite often for software searches.

New comment by sznio in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

sznio — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:45:09 +0000

I don't think it would result in anyone getting nuked. It would result in an end to bombings on Iran.

New comment by sznio in "The user is visibly frustrated"

sznio — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:06:34 +0000

I've been thinking recently of creating a programming language where you write mostly python, but can just "hand wave" away the boring stuff for the agent to do. If you don't want to deal with it, just type in a prompt or pseudocode and it will get filled in. Kinda like using the ai-assisted image editing software.

the main difference being that you don't switch between an agent chat window and the code. Just leave a note to the agent and go back to coding as usual, while the agent fills in the gap.

New comment by sznio in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

sznio — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:36:29 +0000

Iran should have a nuke. Might finally bring some peace.

New comment by sznio in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

sznio — Mon, 25 May 2026 07:57:20 +0000

all that matters is next quarter.

New comment by sznio in "'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing"

sznio — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:44:57 +0000

Funniest thing is how this compares to web browsers impersonating each other in the user agent string. Should Mozilla sue everyone?

New comment by sznio in "Don’t Outsource the Learning"

sznio — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:49:28 +0000

I just end up sleeping every time I try that.

New comment by sznio in "The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations"

sznio — Mon, 18 May 2026 08:03:40 +0000

After using ThinkPads for years I decided to get a MacBook Pro just to see what's up with them. I went on a 2-week vacation so I didn't even touch my work ThinkPad for this time.

After I returned I was immediately annoyed by the shit hinge, but pleased by the keyboard. ThinkPad keyboards are so nicer than MacBooks. Plastic is just nicer to the touch than metal. If Hackintosh was still possible I'd want a ThinkPad with an upgraded screen running MacOS

New comment by sznio in "Native all the way, until you need text"

sznio — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:55:59 +0000

For Jira I think the limitation is buried all the backend execution and rendering. It's still fast if you go only by the frontend user-executed part.

New comment by sznio in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

sznio — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:38:26 +0000

what kind of metric should we use to filter out that bullshit?

dollarhours?

New comment by sznio in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

sznio — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:25:56 +0000

I want a in-browser Gemini version. For some reason my company doesn't count Gemini CLI use. I guess I'm supposed to copy code between my browser and my editor.

New comment by sznio in "Overseas fakers using AI videos to push a narrative of UK decline, BBC finds"

sznio — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:12:07 +0000

what I find worst is that not all of this seems to be a work of a nation-state actor.

it seems like quite a lot of these are just made by people in 3rd world countries to make ad revenue. making videos for westerners gives you the richest audience, so the best ad revenue. and anger creates engagement, so making polarizing content gives you most reach.

New comment by sznio in "Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop"

sznio — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:08:16 +0000

I guess this model doesn't maximize engagement

New comment by sznio in "Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat"

sznio — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:59:02 +0000

beyond the general idea that we shouldn't normalize gambling, betting on some real-life events is horrid. think about insider trading on a polymarket bet for someone's death.

New comment by sznio in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

sznio — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:16:25 +0000

amazing, took me 5 clicks of the back button to finally get back from that link

New comment by sznio in "Claude mixes up who said what"

sznio — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:37:38 +0000

i think that a wasteful but good solution would be to tag each token, not use opening/closing tags.

whatever n-dimensional space the tokens occupy, manually add more dimensions, to reflect user/agent, trusted/untrusted input.

it should be much harder for the LLM to fuck up this way if every single word it reads screams "suspicion" or "trust". with tag tokens at the start it can just forget

New comment by sznio in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

sznio — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:26:54 +0000

> Wtf has happened?? How can they mess up a fucking Notepad App?

they made it use Electron