Hacker News: z0r

New comment by z0r in "Dark Castle"

z0r — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:36:28 +0000

Someone claiming to be the creator of Dark Castle says they are working on a 40th anniversary edition in the comments of that video.

New comment by z0r in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

z0r — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:55:10 +0000

If you can cure a cancer by framing it as a data analysis exercise that doesn't seem to be a bad thing.

New comment by z0r in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

z0r — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:55:01 +0000

Children generally have these things called "parents" who are supposedly responsible for their well being. Oh hey, suddenly there isn't a contradiction.

New comment by z0r in "My AI Adoption Journey"

z0r — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:07:43 +0000

I'm not as good as Fabrice Bellard either but I don't let that bother me as I go about my day.

New comment by z0r in "Code is cheap. Show me the talk"

z0r — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:30:53 +0000

From the article:

  Historically, it would take a reasonably long period of consistent effort and many iterations of refinement for a good developer to produce 10,000 lines of quality code that not only delivered meaningful results, but was easily readable and maintainable. While the number of lines of code is not a measure of code quality—it is often the inverse—a codebase with good quality 10,000 lines of code indicated significant time, effort, focus, patience, expertise, and often, skills like project management that went into it. Human traits.

  Now, LLMs can not only one-shot generate that in seconds,

Evidence please. Ascribing many qualities to LLM code that I haven't (personally) seen at that scale. I think if you want to get an 'easily readable and maintainable' codebase of 10k lines with an LLM you need somebody to review its contributions very closely, and it probably isn't going to be generated with a 1 shot prompt.

New comment by z0r in "Bugs Apple loves"

z0r — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:05:38 +0000

The first one is pretty funny because Gmail search itself has a lot of issues.

New comment by z0r in "Claude Code is the ChatGPT moment repeated and awful news for software stocks"

z0r — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:55:11 +0000

Vague nonsense

New comment by z0r in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"

z0r — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:17:37 +0000

The newly released footage is truly a political Rorschach test. It is unbelievable to me that anyone without diminished mental capabilities could believe that exonerates the camera man.

New comment by z0r in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"

z0r — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:30:27 +0000

Not that your comment is relevant, but why is there a narrative of obstruction when you can visibly see Renee Good wave another truck by moments before she was killed?

https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1q7cg7o/minneapolis_ic...

New comment by z0r in "How Much Wealth an AI Stock Market Crash Could Destroy"

z0r — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:24:18 +0000

Don't the invested dollars poured into infrastructure that won't yield gains represent a loss of value? Especially if the same investment could have been put to work somewhere more fruitful.

New comment by z0r in "Over-regulation is doubling the cost"

z0r — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:13:04 +0000

The parent comment is talking about outsourced lead battery recycling. What is the middle ground there? I think your very abstract argument about over regulation probably belongs in another thread.

New comment by z0r in "Over-regulation is doubling the cost"

z0r — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:11:56 +0000

Is the suggestion here to remove environmental regulations that make outsourcing to countries without regulations appealing? I'm not sure what problem that solves. Of course without discussing specific regulations it is hard to argue about anything - maybe there are useless environmental regulations that make lead battery recycling impossible in first world countries? Or maybe your line of reasoning just doesn't make sense, at least in this case. I don't think I'd want to live near a polluting lead battery recycling operation.

AI Killed My Job: Tech Workers

z0r — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 02:02:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-killing-jobs-in-the-tech-f39

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45883295

Points: 5

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New comment by z0r in "What we talk about when we talk about sideloading"

z0r — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:52:53 +0000

Maybe software updates could contain things users actually want, that provide a competitive incentive for users to choose to buy the phones from specific makers?

New comment by z0r in "A definition of AGI"

z0r — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 02:51:56 +0000

It's good at tasks if you have a competent and _critical_ human editor selecting outputs and pulling the prompt slot lever again as needed.

New comment by z0r in "Matrices can be your friends (2002)"

z0r — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:45:25 +0000

Tricks of the * Game Programming Gurus :)

New comment by z0r in "The dangerous intimacy of social location sharing"

z0r — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:39:00 +0000

Would your parents have picked you up if real time location sharing existed? I understand your story is emotional and personal, but using it as an argument why you want to share your location at all times is a bit of a non-sequitur.

New comment by z0r in "Privacy Harm Is Harm"

z0r — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 18:48:17 +0000

You could engage with the article and explain why you don't agree with the argument that is being made - or you could simply leave no comment at all. That is the hidden subtext of the comment you are replying to here.

New comment by z0r in "Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026"

z0r — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 01:23:49 +0000

They're right :) even if it isn't a conspiracy, that's what will happen because it will be convenient and easy.

New comment by z0r in "Decoding Netflix's AV1 Streams"

z0r — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:20:47 +0000

This didn't trip my AI detector; I instinctively skimmed to look at the numbers and conclusions. Your comment made me go back up to the top and read the opening paragraphs and I see what you are saying. It is always painful to realize you are reading AI product. I think it is less of a problem with this blog post because it is just presenting a handful of tables of numbers and a few graphs, but it seems I am already unconsciously training myself to ignore florid AI writing.