Hacker News: zactato

New comment by zactato in "Grok 4.5"

zactato — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:41:49 +0000

I am amazed at people's willingness to use Grok. The company is so transparently morally bankrupt. They're the only AI company that seems okay with CSAM (or at least don't do as much to stop it)

Why give them money?

It would be one thing if they were the only game in town but thats definitely not the case.

New comment by zactato in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"

zactato — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:53:51 +0000

Ehhh in my experience compliance auditors are 10 behind the cutting edge. I still see auditors that don't understand Kubernetes and so ask the same questions they would about on prem machines. They don't know the questions to ask to get to the real meat of the risks. This leads them to allow things through that probably deserve more scrutiny. I bet the same thing will happen with LLM tools like this. They'll just ask if you use PRs and wave you on through.

New comment by zactato in "30 Years Ago, Robots Learned to Walk Without Falling"

zactato — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:11:52 +0000

yeah came here to say that. Leg lab was doing robotic locomotion in the 80s

Leg Lab evolved into Boston Dynamics, which have been (and maybe continue to be) the leader in real bipedal walking.

New comment by zactato in "Japanese Woodblock Print Search"

zactato — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:48:55 +0000

Pretty sure this was made by John Resig, the creator of jQuery.

I used to be friends with him back in the day and he described wanting to do something like this. He was/is a passionate dude.

New comment by zactato in "Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself"

zactato — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:08:35 +0000

Either you trust AI or you don't? If you don't trust it then you need to review what it's writing.

Docker seems like a pretty low complexity way to create an isolated environment to run automation.

New comment by zactato in "Functional Programming Lessons Conclusion"

zactato — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 17:38:32 +0000

I've always thought that there should be mutability of objects within the function that created them, but immutability once the object is returned.

Ultimately one of the major goals of immutability is isolation of side effects.

New comment by zactato in "Apple M3 Ultra"

zactato — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 23:29:03 +0000

It doesn't support Macs yet

New comment by zactato in "MacBook Air M4"

zactato — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:51:42 +0000

I think the M1 was a pretty huge innovation. It's the first time a laptop felt portable and without compromise. I can get a full day of work out of my laptop without plugging it in. It's pretty wild.

Before this laptops were simply things that were small enough that you could carry one from point A to point B, but they were still effectively tethered to a wall and desk for any non-trivial usecases.

New comment by zactato in "Facebook ban on discussing Linux?"

zactato — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 05:43:48 +0000

It makes sense

I assume Facebook doesn't want anything posted on FB that can't be turned into a racist diatribe. There's not a whole lot of racism potential in Kernel tuning.

Maybe you could squeeze in anti-Finnish rant about Linus, but it would be minimal

New comment by zactato in "Six Sins of Platform Teams"

zactato — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 23:22:14 +0000

If those people were unhappy in their previous product engineering roles wouldn't they have left he company?

New comment by zactato in "City Roads: A tool to draw all roads in a city at once"

zactato — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 03:01:02 +0000

I would expect the opposite with a basic LRU cache before the fetch to OSM

New comment by zactato in "Show HN: DIY 80€ 3D Printer Basement Ventilation"

zactato — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 23:08:09 +0000

I just ordered by first 3D printer, I'm not normally sensitive to air quality issues, but my partner is, so I spent some time doing some research on the issue.

It's amazing how many people believe "if you can't smell it, there's no problem" and quite incorrectly assume that things like PLA won't hurt them. Surely minimal exposure is fine, but 3d printers run over many hour periods and those VOCs can build up.

I decided to be safe and bought a basic fabric enclosure with an exhaust fan that vents to the outdoors. It's probably not perfect, but maintaining negative pressure inside the enclosure should remove most particulates. I wouldnt handle bromine in it.

I'm worried about all the folks running print farms in their house with minimal ventilation.

New comment by zactato in "Google says AI weather model masters 15-day forecast"

zactato — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:49:33 +0000

yeah, but weather patterns data isn't different now than 10 years ago, right? right? ...

New comment by zactato in "Museum of Bad Art"

zactato — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:44:21 +0000

Yeah! I think I went there back in 2004.

New comment by zactato in "Why you should use Go"

zactato — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 21:56:35 +0000

They really committed an original sin by omitting generics in early versions of Go, it was added in more recent versions, but too late IMO.

New comment by zactato in "Lawsuit: City cameras make it impossible to drive anywhere without being tracked"

zactato — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 23:40:24 +0000

Another reason to ride a bike

New comment by zactato in "Do U.S. ports need more automation?"

zactato — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 18:13:10 +0000

I thought it was also the Vietnam War

New comment by zactato in "In the Shack with Robert Caro"

zactato — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:18:46 +0000

When I finished the book, I was so disappointed that it was over.

Supposedly the original manuscript was like 40% longer. I hope thats published some day.

New comment by zactato in "Flipper Zero Gets Major Firmware Update, Can Eavesdrop on Walkie-Talkies"

zactato — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 04:56:49 +0000

Is the Flipper Zero still legit? I know it’s only quasi legal in some places. I see a lot of ads for it to the point where I kind of suspect it’s some sort of FBI entrapment program. Maybe I’m just being paranoid.

New comment by zactato in "Apple Watch Series 10"

zactato — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 19:35:41 +0000

Thats got to be a super tiny population of the world