Hacker News: zadler

New comment by zadler in "Soldiers in combat can kill without moral injury"

zadler — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 04:11:12 +0000

prepare for war, western man!

New comment by zadler in "The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer"

zadler — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 12:18:03 +0000

So happy humans will be able to stop using their brains soon due to AI !

New comment by zadler in "ChatGPT can't kill anything worth preserving"

zadler — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 03:27:05 +0000

A little sugar is fine. Alot of it kills you.

New comment by zadler in "ChatGPT can't kill anything worth preserving"

zadler — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:28:28 +0000

Maybe this is propaganda and you are being told what to think.

Of course AI isn’t going to be a good thing for the majority of humans at all. But it’s very important to manage sentiment within tech audiences.

New comment by zadler in "Boston Dynamics shows off another major leap in humanoid mobility"

zadler — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:14:38 +0000

Do we need it

New comment by zadler in "US support to maintain UK's nuclear arsenal is in doubt"

zadler — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 12:52:16 +0000

Why are they like this?

Why dont they stop the nuclear posturing and just get on with reindustrializing

New comment by zadler in "Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft"

zadler — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:20:58 +0000

Precision targeting should or could yield less but what’s happened is more like what you do to a windows 98 machine every year or two

New comment by zadler in "Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft"

zadler — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:03:25 +0000

Which is not the same as avoiding collateral damage.

New comment by zadler in "Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft"

zadler — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:49:45 +0000

We are all sleepwalking into a terminator scenario or dangerous surveillance state at least. Not just Israel. This kind of tech is eventually turned inwards.

New comment by zadler in "My takeaways from 12 months of therapy"

zadler — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 14:52:12 +0000

Once you figure out what your issues are, you might however find yourself going to therapists with the questions “what are we to do or what am I to do about it?” And finding they have no answer. Just, “yea it’s a process…”

New comment by zadler in "Bitcoin price hits $100K for first time in history"

zadler — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:27:38 +0000

Believing that misallocation of capital means that we are living in a post scarcity society is a very techno optimist way of looking at things.

HN is unbelievably apolitical, apart from it's baseline tendency towards the left and whatever silicon valley demands people believe.

If you were anywhere near a post scarcity society (applies to USA) you wouldn't be hurtling towards national sovereign debt default at a rate of knots, and you wouldn't have the most expensive healthcare in the world.

As it happens, what appears to be a "post scarcity society" is just pathological misallocation of capital due to a political failure (that shaln't be spoken of here) that has the entire west circling the bowl at the moment.

New comment by zadler in "Bitcoin price hits $100K for first time in history"

zadler — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:15:59 +0000

Sure. Millions of people in the third world use crypto for payments. There's also Polymarket, very much recognized within the mainstream. And generally, crypto will continue to spawn new digital infrastructures in a sovereign space.

New comment by zadler in "Bitcoin price hits $100K for first time in history"

zadler — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:49:56 +0000

Either way it’s headed off the rails. Sloppification of everything, followed by eventual machine takeover.

New comment by zadler in "Bitcoin price hits $100K for first time in history"

zadler — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:21:58 +0000

I feel this way about AI. Oh wait, AI is actually an existential risk to humanity, also.

New comment by zadler in "Bitcoin price hits $100K for first time in history"

zadler — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:20:27 +0000

There’s still room for it to become an inflation hedge, we still havnt really seen much in terms of USD inflation and people scrambling for the exit.

OTOH, government crackdowns might be able to tank the price.

New comment by zadler in "Bitcoin price hits $100K for first time in history"

zadler — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:13:38 +0000

If you are sure of this then congrats, you’ve spotted a pattern in the market that you can exploit and get rich off.

Seems unlikely tho for this reason.

New comment by zadler in "Bitcoin price hits $100K for first time in history"

zadler — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:11:30 +0000

Account created 18 mins ago spreading FUD…

New comment by zadler in "Bitcoin price hits $100K for first time in history"

zadler — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:05:53 +0000

First comment of any bitcoin thread on HN is always something like this, generally negative and a bit grumpy.

New comment by zadler in "AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing"

zadler — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 22:30:59 +0000

Massive thanks for this! I’m already using my own version of analytical antialiasing but there were some bits I couldn’t get quite right so this is perfect!

New comment by zadler in "Ask HN: How would you launch a privacy-first, Instagram-like social network?"

zadler — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 13:30:38 +0000

http://beastie.fi. App links in the menu. It’s likely not what you’re expecting.