Hacker News: zcw100

New comment by zcw100 in "Creativity is the new moat"

zcw100 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:16:45 +0000

Absolutely this. The same thing is, and will continue, to take happen in the work place. This is the real threat of AI. Not that it's going to take your job, that it's going to redefine what is used to measure your value.

New comment by zcw100 in "Creativity is the new moat"

zcw100 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:48:04 +0000

Maybe everyone has it backwards. They shouldn't be mad at everyone pumping out AI shit. They should be mad at all the crappy stuff we were forced to endure that was no better than AI shit. The only difference is the crap doesn't cost anything anymore.

The emperor has no clothes.

New comment by zcw100 in "Open-source 3D anatomy explorer: 2,234 selectable BodyParts3D meshes"

zcw100 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:57:54 +0000

Looks like it was misattributed as CC BY 4.0 but it should be CC BY-SA 2.1 Japan

New comment by zcw100 in "Open-source 3D anatomy explorer: 2,234 selectable BodyParts3D meshes"

zcw100 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:55:38 +0000

You don't need to call it amateurish. It's free.

New comment by zcw100 in "Ask HN: Where Is AGI?"

zcw100 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:00:46 +0000

Here's a crazy idea. What if we are looking for AGI in the wrong place? We built a global internet. If we do achieve AGI maybe it will be a globally distributed one. If it did would we even know what to look for?

New comment by zcw100 in "Gen Z is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

zcw100 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:36:37 +0000

This is just awful. I can't even contemplate a more nuanced rebuttal because I don't want to engage with it. I feel more sorry for children today because of articles like this are being written about them.

New comment by zcw100 in "Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face"

zcw100 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:01:09 +0000

I only learned about their CDN and protocol called Xet a couple of days ago https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/xet/index That puts it in the Cloudflare of AI models category.

New comment by zcw100 in "Keenable SELECT: an agent that searches the web in SQL"

zcw100 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:51:08 +0000

SEM_EXTRACT, SEM_MATCH, WEB_SEARCH are pretty vague functions. Makes me wonder why you'd bother with the SQL part at that point and not just ask the question.

New comment by zcw100 in "Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today"

zcw100 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:32:31 +0000

I worried about this myself. 50% higher limits were nice but the flip side is you get used to it and then it just feels like they're taking 50% away. I'm not sure it's going to have the effect that Anthropic was expecting....or maybe that was the point. Who knows. I can see both perspectives.

New comment by zcw100 in "DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser"

zcw100 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:19:02 +0000

I have and the suggestion was received positively. Thanks for the suggestion to do that. DuckDB rocks!

New comment by zcw100 in "DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser"

zcw100 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:56:28 +0000

I'm excited about this and have some use cases already lined up but I'm continually worried about a grammar free-for-all and collisions as each extension author tries to modify the grammar. I'm hoping they already have something in place for that and I just haven't read about it yet. I'm concerned that you can load an extension and kind of mangle the interpretation of the syntax. Two author extensions could legitimately want conflicting parsers and there's no easy way to unload an extension in duckdb. Something like an explicit "GRAMMAR SQL" or "GRAMMAR GGSQL", etc would be nice.

New comment by zcw100 in "A Preview of DuckDB v2.0"

zcw100 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:44:11 +0000

What do you plan on stripping and what's your target? The Emscripten based build is ~10Mb. I have a component build so I'd be interesting on how you'd like to break it up.

New comment by zcw100 in "RayforceDB – a pure C analytics database with a Lisp-like syntax"

zcw100 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:15:17 +0000

I was just thinking yesterday that some of what these AI generated sites have exposed is just how vacuous and low information content a lot of websites have become. The difference is previously you could at least say, "hey, someone at least spent a little money to create this" now that cost is pretty much zero. I think the answer is to simply demand more from people who have real products. If you have a product, I want to see a screenshot. Even better a demo and I'm not hitting the "schedule a demo" button. Either you step up and demonstrate capability or you're going to get lost in the noise.

New comment by zcw100 in "A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy"

zcw100 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:23:28 +0000

You can add :p to print the command.

New comment by zcw100 in "A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy"

zcw100 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:21:58 +0000

I like to alias it to "please"

New comment by zcw100 in "How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video]"

zcw100 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:22:04 +0000

I can't help thinking of David Rees. This guy is hilarious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KabOfnbS4TQ&t=139s

New comment by zcw100 in "The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era"

zcw100 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:13:37 +0000

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.

New comment by zcw100 in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

zcw100 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:47:59 +0000

I guess you're just supposed to read Clausewitz not actually understand it.

New comment by zcw100 in "Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few"

zcw100 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:46:48 +0000

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.

New comment by zcw100 in "Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few"

zcw100 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:14:55 +0000

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.