Hacker News: tziki

New comment by tziki in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

tziki — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:18:10 +0000

AI sense of humor benchmark: http://witbench.com/

New comment by tziki in "The Jeff Dean Facts"

tziki — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:39:33 +0000

You mean he fired one person who threatened to quit if the changes to the paper weren't to their liking? Or am I misremembering?

New comment by tziki in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

tziki — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:54:31 +0000

"Uncharitable interpretation" is putting it mildly. I don't know the context for the quote but imagine being the CEO. You might give one hour interview outlining the tradeoffs you need to do to keep things running, and a random blogger takes a 5 second clip, makes an absurd interpretation and ends up on hackernews.

New comment by tziki in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

tziki — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:39:19 +0000

Having a "lighter standard" simply means people will have to write native apps, one per platform. I understand Apple wants this, but for Mozilla that should be the antithesis of what they're trying to achieve.

New comment by tziki in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

tziki — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:35:33 +0000

>I can't think of any existing lasers which you are intended to look at during daily use

Iphone face unlock users lidar to scan your face when you look at it.

New comment by tziki in "All about automotive lidar"

tziki — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:09:23 +0000

If that was true they would've already released a full, no safety driver service. They have not.

New comment by tziki in "Nano Banana Pro"

tziki — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 01:19:16 +0000

I agree, it seems like Seedream has the neck at same length as Nano Banana but also made the giraffe crouch down, making a major modification to the overall picture.

New comment by tziki in "Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders"

tziki — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:54:46 +0000

It's not irrelevant that it's Israel in question. There's not many countries that have been found to be committing genocide (by UN), are actively involved in a war or where the leaders are sought by ICC.

New comment by tziki in "Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens"

tziki — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:44:15 +0000

Exactly this. Top 1% of artists earn about as much as the average software engineer. Ranking people purely based on salary is turning h1b into a visa for people in specific professions.

New comment by tziki in "For all that's holy, can you just leverage the web, please?"

tziki — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:46:09 +0000

I'd say this goes for a lot of developers too. The amount of push back I see online when Chrome implements something that was previously only available in app land is weirdly high. Like do you seriously want to write separate ios app for everything?

New comment by tziki in "Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom"

tziki — Fri, 16 May 2025 03:37:26 +0000

I have the exact same experience. I felt like I went back to a phone from 2018.

New comment by tziki in "Google will let companies run Gemini models in their own data centers"

tziki — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 17:57:14 +0000

I don't understand how Google is willing to do this but won't sell TPUs to other days centers. It should be obvious from Nvidia's market cap that they're missing a huge opportunity.

New comment by tziki in "Sora is here"

tziki — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:23:28 +0000

>They will remain behind in LLMs

The latest Gemini version (1206) is at least tied for the best LLM, if not the best outright.

New comment by tziki in "China is on track to reach its 2030 clean energy targets already"

tziki — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 18:06:46 +0000

>China is using more energy and resources that rest of the world combined

This isn't obviously true even with a cursory glance at the statistics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...). This isn't the forum to fire off false one-liners.

New comment by tziki in "California Approves Waymo Expansion to Los Angeles and SF Peninsula [pdf]"

tziki — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 07:45:45 +0000

SF traffic seems harder to handle than LA traffic.

New comment by tziki in "Google abandoned "don't be evil" – and Gemini is the result"

tziki — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:01:14 +0000

I disagree with the assessment of the title. It's specifically trying to not be evil and going overboard with it that got Google into this mess. It's almost fascinating how the values of one culture (Google's bay area centric one) differ so much from the rest of the world.

New comment by tziki in "USCIS announces strengthened integrity measures for H-1B program"

tziki — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:15:04 +0000

Wrong, it's because being an animation artist is much more often a career of passion, which brings down the salaries in the industry due to increased labor supply.

New comment by tziki in "USCIS announces strengthened integrity measures for H-1B program"

tziki — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:55:01 +0000

Salaries vary by field. You can be an incredibly talented animation artist but you'll still get paid less than the average software engineer.

New comment by tziki in "Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly"

tziki — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 04:34:29 +0000

There is a difference between trivially bypassing protections and having to go though some effort to bypass it.

New comment by tziki in "Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren't enough players"

tziki — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:57:54 +0000

I honestly find it absurd that we have a perfectly good solution for gaming in the form of online streaming services like geforce now, but they somehow just haven't gained much adoption. Games not being available for a platform should be a thing of the past already.