Hacker News: tiznow

New comment by tiznow in "When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs"

tiznow — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:28:17 +0000

It's better than performance art, it's something you couldn't write.

New comment by tiznow in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

tiznow — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:26:26 +0000

The same people who still pay for cable and get roped into spending half an hour watching an infomercial at 4am.

New comment by tiznow in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

tiznow — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:13:27 +0000

Part of this is baked into the experience though, if "ads" here are trailers for upcoming films. I don't know if theaters are now showing ads for products, I haven't been in forever.

New comment by tiznow in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

tiznow — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:11:16 +0000

Taxation isn't theft but poor fiscal policy is larceny.

New comment by tiznow in "Defending my own brain against enshittification"

tiznow — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:55:44 +0000

I've been in multiple car accidents this year, none of them my fault. Commuting might actually be the death of me, I can't express to a future employer how much I'm willing to trade just to not have to do it anymore. Doesn't help that I deal with some of the worst traffic in America...

New comment by tiznow in "Every Company Needs a Cassandra"

tiznow — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:48:45 +0000

If people wanted to listen to Cassandras, or more broadly, people who don't have the power to make or stop changes but are voicing consent or considerations -- they would far more often, as that is very easy to do.

Corporate culture is especially nearly designed to never give Cassandras the time of day.

Why wouldn't people just write the agent off as 'broken'? Would this agent learn to keep most of it's responses to itself or end up actually broken/drifting as a result of having good advice ignored?

New comment by tiznow in "How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video]"

tiznow — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:29:19 +0000

If you draw then woodcase pencils are far easier to configure into different strokes, widths, tip lengths etc

New comment by tiznow in "OpenAI's new device will be hockey puck-sized and cost over $300"

tiznow — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:27:01 +0000

Privacy nightmare + worse UX than a phone or sitting at your desk? Dead on arrival. Not a fan of Alexa but at least it can change what you're currently viewing on your Fire stick.

New comment by tiznow in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

tiznow — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:20:01 +0000

Fishing videos are one of the best usecases I've seen for them, but people generally go fishing alone or with close friends/family so it's a much different scenario than being a glasshole in public.

New comment by tiznow in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

tiznow — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:18:43 +0000

People already disable the recording light and the problem is so pervasive Amazon has "banned" the blocking stickers.

New comment by tiznow in "Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit"

tiznow — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:23:38 +0000

Roaming around the apartment complex I grew up, in with friends and a link cable meeting new kids and trading Pokemon were some of the best times of my life.

I'm still a Pokemon fan to this day. I play Go all the time, collect cards when they're not obscene to acquire, and I'll probably buy a Switch 2 when they come out with the upgrade to immerse myself in the online aspect of modern Pokemon games. Fantastic franchise.

New comment by tiznow in "How do you plan to make a living after AI takes your job?"

tiznow — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:40:02 +0000

If my heat stops working then my heat starts working.

New comment by tiznow in "Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength"

tiznow — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 04:28:55 +0000

Consider yourself blessed, the one place in my neighborhood where I get one bar on LTE is the same place I once was repairing my car. Awful experience but the rest of the subdivision is fine.

New comment by tiznow in "Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan"

tiznow — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 23:04:04 +0000

People have been using "off the market" since before the internet was born.

New comment by tiznow in "Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan"

tiznow — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 23:02:48 +0000

> There's no objection, but it doesn't work because men compete while women collude.

It's funny because many people, even some women would say you have the genders flipped here

New comment by tiznow in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

tiznow — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 03:49:58 +0000

.350 Legend is a rising hunting round for deer with upper receivers that can be slapped onto a common AR-15 lower.

New comment by tiznow in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)"

tiznow — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:51:59 +0000

Location: East Coast (DC/Philly), willing to work remote in most any time zone Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: AWS, Python (love Django), JavaScript/TypeScript (love React), Docker, PowerShell, Postgres Resume: Available on request Email: k.mensah94@outlook.com

Seeking: Ideally looking for junior/associate roles

New comment by tiznow in "How would you start to learn coding today?"

tiznow — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:00:23 +0000

The Paul Graham advice of "build things you and your friends would use" alongside Python -- which was my first language, getting back to coding for the first time since 9th grade -- is basically the carrot I've offered to a few people wanting to get into coding.

I'm lucky in the sense that what got me back into coding was a very specific set of personal needs that drove me mad in the best way with passion. I'm not a technical wizard, but coding and growing over the last few years has to count for something.

New comment by tiznow in "Show HN: Struggle with CSS Flexbox? This Playground Is for You"

tiznow — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 21:35:51 +0000

I needed this 3 days ago before I approached a mental breakdown, haha.

New comment by tiznow in "Ask HN: Have you ever taken a career break or gap year to hack?"

tiznow — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:10:06 +0000

Yes, but I've never been an employed programmer -- I lost my job over a year ago, and basically, because I still have the chance to upskill and live with my parents, I've used the last year to work part-time and flesh out some projects and become more employable overall.

I'll be starting a job next month, because at this point I probably gotta get back on the hamster wheel and work into some professional progress, but I'm hoping this is my last non-programming job. The last 13 months have absolutely been worth the price of admission.