<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: zcw100</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zcw100</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:33:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=zcw100" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't help thinking of David Rees. This guy is hilarious <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KabOfnbS4TQ&t=139s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KabOfnbS4TQ&t=139s</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:22:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242694</link><dc:creator>zcw100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242694</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People need to stop yelling "Slop!" all the time and saying silly things like "every line of code was reviewed by a human". First, it's ridiculous. There is no possible way to verify that claim, determine what was or wasn't done after reviewing it, and there's no reason to review every single line. It's performative. I have a ton of stuff I haven't bothered contributing. Why? So I can deal with all the hate? When it was "many hands make light work" there was value in sharing the load. Now I've got a backhoe and it's not worth the hassle.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:13:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911672</link><dc:creator>zcw100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911672</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I guess you're just supposed to read Clausewitz not actually understand it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:47:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848820</link><dc:creator>zcw100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848820</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A large number of logically irreconcilable perspectives (in one's own mind) is the precise definition of cognitive dissonance. You also say that I may be building a straw man without even trying to point out where you think I've done that. You've already conceded my argument that there are many competing perspectives and I make no attempt to poke any holes in that so there is no straw man.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:46:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710864</link><dc:creator>zcw100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710864</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm done. The cognitive dissonance over AI has jumped the shark. It's not fair that it's everywhere. It's not fair that only a few have it. It's not fair that it uses so much electricity. It's not fair that it's killing my environment. It's not fair there's a datacenter in my back yard. It's not fair there isn't a datacenter in my back yard. It's not fair that it threatens my job. It's not fair that my employer doesn't give me access to AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:14:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706356</link><dc:creator>zcw100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706356</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can't really win can ya? Scarce? They're driving up prices! Plentiful? It's all a big bubble!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:03:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691301</link><dc:creator>zcw100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691301</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "Show HN: High-Res Neural Cellular Automata"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've always loved the original work and it's nice to see they're still working on it. I've always wondered if there was a way to connect this back to infrastructure rather than images. Something you could run on a cluster and if portions of it failed it would regenerate the system.<p>Like a bio inspired Kubernettes.....Bionettes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:36:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571151</link><dc:creator>zcw100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571151</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "Chameleon Ultra: a flashdrive sized NFC toolkit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> "no single „this is what this project is” anywhere in the repo description, readme or docs. "<p>That sounds like he read through the docs to me and make a perfectly valid observation that that the maintainers might find valuable. He didn't criticize them for not doing it he just pointed out that it wasn't there. You then told him to RTFM when you didn't seem to spend much time reading what he had written.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:12:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570843</link><dc:creator>zcw100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570843</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "The Road to the WASM Component Model 1.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You don't need to write platform-specific code if you use some cross-platform framework. For simple programs it may be enough to use only the standard library of your language of choice.<p>That's a circular argument and "some" is doing a lot of work there. What cross-platform framework would you be referring to?<p>> It has little value. Compiling a separate binary for each OS isn't that hard, since only a handful of architectures and operating systems are actually in use. Using an abstract cross-platform binary (like WASM) in the other hand adds extra performance costs and other user-side overhead, which isn't strictly necessary.<p>It my have little value to you but that doesn't mean it has little value to everyone. I don't agree that compiling to multiple architectures is without difficulty and restricting yourself to only popular ones proves the point. What specific "other user-side overhead" would you be referring to? Lots of things aren't strictly necessary, that doesn't imply they're not necessary. Yes, there is a performance cost. Sometimes that cost is worth paying.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:58:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48559260</link><dc:creator>zcw100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48559260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48559260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can use iPXE <a href="https://ipxe.org/" rel="nofollow">https://ipxe.org/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:58:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507323</link><dc:creator>zcw100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507323</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wrote a Subsack post on this topic back in December <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/zacharywhitley/p/the-coming-age-of-tokenomics?r=rc2kf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web" rel="nofollow">https://open.substack.com/pub/zacharywhitley/p/the-coming-ag...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:40:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435903</link><dc:creator>zcw100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435903</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is this being handed over to the Bytecode Alliance or is this a hard fork and will diverge from Chicory? It isn't clear from the announcement but I suspect the former.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 20:14:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314790</link><dc:creator>zcw100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314790</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What your discussing is a tautology so it is not clear.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:56:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951106</link><dc:creator>zcw100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951106</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you have factual observations to make that's fine but can we stop with the "smells like vibe coding" attacks? It's like an AI version of an ad-hominem attack.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:53:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904048</link><dc:creator>zcw100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904048</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can have a network enclave in an air gapped network.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:48:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904018</link><dc:creator>zcw100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904018</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't forget Vega! <a href="https://vega.github.io/vega/" rel="nofollow">https://vega.github.io/vega/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:36:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834136</link><dc:creator>zcw100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834136</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8B Company"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is just like when Paypal got started and was basically operating their own bank. Good luck doing that without getting in trouble. This is selling pharmaceutical drugs over the internet. You're playing chicken with going to jail they just happened to get lucky.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:22:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619678</link><dc:creator>zcw100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619678</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why so every armchair reviewer can yell, "Slop!"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:55:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390596</link><dc:creator>zcw100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390596</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just met a guy from Amazon this past weekend who was bragging, "We've got unlimited access to LLMs and our developers have 10 agents going at a time.". I tried telling him it wasn't all unicorns and rainbows but I didn't get the impression he cared and just kept crapping out skittles.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:25:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47326999</link><dc:creator>zcw100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47326999</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47326999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zcw100 in "Revealed: UK's multibillion AI drive is built on 'phantom investments'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They should but they don't and that's the problem.</p>
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