Hacker News: zavec

New comment by zavec in "Who's the smartest corvid?"

zavec — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:11:07 +0000

It definitely seems brutal, but when I stop and think about it it's actually probably more humane for the prey than getting eaten alive, right?

New comment by zavec in "Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency"

zavec — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:21:10 +0000

Hell, I grew up with English as my first language and I still learned a lot of obscure vocabulary from magic!

It's definitely not so good these days, but a format called premodern is getting more popular. You may find it worth looking in to that one.

New comment by zavec in "FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX"

zavec — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:18:56 +0000

Homestuck is finally happening?

New comment by zavec in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

zavec — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:48:54 +0000

Alive 2007 is a bit late to be the 90s though

New comment by zavec in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

zavec — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:39:15 +0000

Lock picking is great! Many security conferences will have a "lockpick village" where there are just a bunch of locks, lockpicks, and volunteers teaching people how to do it.

New comment by zavec in "Google open-sources experimental agent orchestration testbed Scion"

zavec — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:21:37 +0000

This looks really promising, I am curious about the choice to use containers as the isolation layer though. If the goal is to treat agents as untrusted and isolate them fully I feel like microVMs would be a better option.

If it supports OCI runtimes though then maybe kata containers can be plugged in, I'll have to dig in after work and see.

New comment by zavec in "FSF statement on copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic"

zavec — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:13:06 +0000

> The courts decided that rap records had to clear every single sample, thereby basically destroying the art form, but now you can literally feed every book into a blender, piece another book together out of the pieces, and sell it.

Are they still enforcing the old way on hip hop samples, or has that changed with the recent rulings? If the new way of doing things is applied fairly to everyone that seems like a win.

New comment by zavec in "How to record and retrieve anything you've ever had to look up twice"

zavec — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:04:32 +0000

This sounds fascinating, if you ever write more about it I'd love to read it!

New comment by zavec in "Sealos – AI Native Cloud Cloud Operating System"

zavec — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:48:43 +0000

Last rc is 2025 but there are at least still new commits (one from 3 hours ago)

New comment by zavec in "On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]"

zavec — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:17:11 +0000

> IMO the issue is not propaganda at all, but real physical problems that are not being addressed.

I don't think those are mutually exclusive. There can be real problems, and propaganda can magnify those and lead people to decisions that are for the benefit of the propagandist rather than things that will actually solve the problem.

New comment by zavec in "Giving university exams in the age of chatbots"

zavec — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:57:39 +0000

It was the same when I graduated 6 years ago. We had projects to test our ability to use tools and such, and I guess in that context LLMs might be a concern. But exams were pencil and paper only.

New comment by zavec in "Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app"

zavec — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:26:35 +0000

There's also a sex toy

New comment by zavec in "C Is Best (2025)"

zavec — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:02:25 +0000

You haven't been getting the checks? Bring that up at our next secret cabal meeting.

New comment by zavec in "No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter"

zavec — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:08:38 +0000

I think you can with a user.js file, unless they changed that?

New comment by zavec in "No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter"

zavec — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:58:35 +0000

It's bitter for me because I like looking at how things work under the hood and that's much less satisfying when it's "a bunch of stats and linear algebra that just happens to work"

New comment by zavec in "No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter"

zavec — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:43 +0000

I guess it's nice for non-technical people who don't know how to use `about:config` but beyond that I don't really see the need. Hopefully adding that extra layer of indirection doesn't mean the users will have to wait too long for security patches.

New comment by zavec in "Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto"

zavec — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:32:58 +0000

Pragmatic is not bothering to switch to the shiny new thing just because it's shiny and new if your current tool doesn't give you any problems.

New comment by zavec in "Frequently Asked Unicycling Questions"

zavec — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:33:38 +0000

This is exactly why I just bought one! I take the bus to work, but I live about 1.5k from the nearest bus stop and it's pretty flat.

Unfortunately it's just starting to be icy here so I probably won't be able to make much use of it for several months, but at least it's something to look forward to!

New comment by zavec in "Frequently Asked Unicycling Questions"

zavec — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:31:44 +0000

Ooh I'm definitely going to have to give that a read for my blog! For somebody who usually hates frontend development I sure do like to tinker with small blog improvements for some reason.

New comment by zavec in "I don’t need a Steam Machine"

zavec — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:59:03 +0000

> Support from professional software vendors (Dassault, Autodesk, et al) and Nvidia could be better, admittedly, but these restrictions aren't very relevant to me.

I think that's maybe what GP was getting at. If you know how to debug stuff and such then Linux is perfectly serviceable today.

With something like this, between Valve presumably publishing some docs and a big community for a single platform it should become a lot easier for people who are less familiar to search "I got xyz error on my steam box what do I do" and get help they can use. For mass adoption I think that's a big step. And then from there they can start venturing further out, if they want.