Hacker News: zahirbmirza

New comment by zahirbmirza in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

zahirbmirza — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:27:36 +0000

Amazing!!! As ereaders get faster and with colour, this could make books from the Project even more attractive. I love the work of your team. Thank you.

New comment by zahirbmirza in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

zahirbmirza — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:09:04 +0000

Is Project Guternberg ever going to add PDF download options?

New comment by zahirbmirza in "Reddit Is the Most Dangerous Social Media Platform for Human Creativity-Opinion"

zahirbmirza — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:23:16 +0000

yes

New comment by zahirbmirza in "Reddit Is the Most Dangerous Social Media Platform for Human Creativity-Opinion"

zahirbmirza — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:23:03 +0000

Crikey

New comment by zahirbmirza in "Reddit Is the Most Dangerous Social Media Platform for Human Creativity-Opinion"

zahirbmirza — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:00:23 +0000

It is very challenging that the moderation and rule making is more arbitrary that you would believe from community rules.

New comment by zahirbmirza in "Reddit Is the Most Dangerous Social Media Platform for Human Creativity-Opinion"

zahirbmirza — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:59:40 +0000

Yes, I do agree. But my long standing frustrations with Reddit came to the Surface with this OpenAI article. My thoughts reflect on how we are soon to be subjected to the whims of the LLM masters when it comes to conformity.

Reddit Is the Most Dangerous Social Media Platform for Human Creativity-Opinion

zahirbmirza — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:44:21 +0000

Article URL: https://mirz.ai/post/reddit-is-the-most-dangerous-social-media-platform-for-human-creativity-opinion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960187

Points: 6

# Comments: 8

New comment by zahirbmirza in "Where the goblins came from"

zahirbmirza — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:13:32 +0000

I find it worrying that a handful of software companies will define what classifies personality "type".

New comment by zahirbmirza in "Using the internet like it's 1999"

zahirbmirza — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:50:19 +0000

How can we solve this problem, of the current state of the internet, without reverting to the compromises of the past? This has been on my mind for a while. The layer of trash some companies have built over the internet has been ruinous.

New comment by zahirbmirza in "You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings"

zahirbmirza — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:11:11 +0000

could the same be said of iOS?

New comment by zahirbmirza in "Talk like caveman"

zahirbmirza — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:19:33 +0000

You can also make huge spelling mistakes and use incomplete words with llms they just sem to know better than any spl chk wht you mean. I use such speak to cut my time spent typing to them.

New comment by zahirbmirza in "Fatal addiction: Authors accuse Apple of destroying Japan's tech industry"

zahirbmirza — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:50:26 +0000

One of the few articles discussing this Japanese book in more than cursory detail.

Fatal addiction: Authors accuse Apple of destroying Japan's tech industry

zahirbmirza — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:50:26 +0000

Article URL: https://theworld.org/stories/2016/07/30/fatal-addiction-authors-accuse-apple-destroying-japans-tech-industry

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632083

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by zahirbmirza in "Vaping likely to cause lung and oral cancer, Australian researchers find"

zahirbmirza — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:41:45 +0000

Fascinating. I wonder if this will help change the growing apathy toward vaping in enclosed spaces.

New comment by zahirbmirza in "Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons"

zahirbmirza — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:23:16 +0000

I still miss launchpad. Which is made worse by the fact the spotlight has become terrible.

Safari is unusable due to some weird sync that happens whenever I open a new window ( i dont use tabs) and adding bookmarks takes about 10-15 seconds.

Please Apple, help? Apple seem to have lost their cultish drive to satisfy UI obsessive like me who often didn't even know what we wanted until they gave it to us. Now, we know what we want, but Apple can't give it to us.

New comment by zahirbmirza in "Tinybox- offline AI device 120B parameters"

zahirbmirza — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:19:11 +0000

10 mil today... 1k in 10 years. Are OpenAI and Anthropic overvalued?

New comment by zahirbmirza in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

zahirbmirza — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:23:19 +0000

Fossil-fuel subsidies from governments totalled $7trn in 2022. Thats about 7% of global GDP. The world spends 4% of GDP on education. Source Monocle Magazine no.190 page 88.

There is a lot to unpack here and also an obvious solution.

Ask HN: Best Tech News Sites

zahirbmirza — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:29:27 +0000

What are the best sites to keep up-to-date on tech/ai/geek news?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47419231

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by zahirbmirza in "Can I run AI locally?"

zahirbmirza — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:00:13 +0000

Also, I have to add, this project is an excellent piece of work.

New comment by zahirbmirza in "Can I run AI locally?"

zahirbmirza — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:56:46 +0000

This was depressing. But, also, I can't figure why AI companies are valued so high. The models will reach a limit (ie for what most people want to use a model for), and compute will increase over time.