Hacker News: zcw100

New comment by zcw100 in "Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF"

zcw100 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:58:29 +0000

New comment by zcw100 in "Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering"

zcw100 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:40:46 +0000

I wrote a Subsack post on this topic back in December https://open.substack.com/pub/zacharywhitley/p/the-coming-ag...

New comment by zcw100 in "Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime"

zcw100 — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:14:15 +0000

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.

New comment by zcw100 in "A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp"

zcw100 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:56:20 +0000

What your discussing is a tautology so it is not clear.

New comment by zcw100 in "A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp"

zcw100 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:53:00 +0000

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.

New comment by zcw100 in "A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp"

zcw100 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:48:27 +0000

You can have a network enclave in an air gapped network.

New comment by zcw100 in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"

zcw100 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:36:18 +0000

Don't forget Vega! https://vega.github.io/vega/

New comment by zcw100 in "A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8B Company"

zcw100 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:22:16 +0000

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.

New comment by zcw100 in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

zcw100 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:55:39 +0000

Why so every armchair reviewer can yell, "Slop!"?

New comment by zcw100 in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

zcw100 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:25:55 +0000

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.

New comment by zcw100 in "Revealed: UK's multibillion AI drive is built on 'phantom investments'"

zcw100 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:13:32 +0000

They should but they don't and that's the problem.

New comment by zcw100 in "Revealed: UK's multibillion AI drive is built on 'phantom investments'"

zcw100 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:12:05 +0000

I really enjoy Patrick Boyle's reports. Really high information content with very little fluff. I love how he sneaks in the deadpan snarky comment every once in a while.

New comment by zcw100 in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"

zcw100 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:44:39 +0000

I replaced all the light switches in my house with smart dimmers and have the lights dim in the evening. It happens in steps so it's noticeable and it's like a clock ticking down. I don't know if there's anything scientific about it but it's pleasant, like the house is going to sleep so maybe I should too.

New comment by zcw100 in "Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File"

zcw100 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:50:56 +0000

"I took a look" is the human version of vibe coding.

New comment by zcw100 in "Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File"

zcw100 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:59:10 +0000

What does verifying code by hand even mean? Do we now have artisanal testing, lovingly hand crafted? I get the current debate about LLM assisted coding but this is mudslinging and not constructive discussion.

New comment by zcw100 in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

zcw100 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:48:57 +0000

I suspect that we are going to see managers say, "Hey, this request is BS. I'm just going to get ChatGPT to do it" while employees say, "Hey, this response is BS, I'm just going to get ChatGPT to do it" and then we'll just have ChatGPT talking to itself. Eventually someone will notice and fire them both.

"What would you say you do here?" --Office Space

New comment by zcw100 in "When employees feel slighted, they work less"

zcw100 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:55:11 +0000

I think you'd enjoy reading about the Gervais Principle. It's pretty much what you're talking about.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/

New comment by zcw100 in "Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle in 2026"

zcw100 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:08:50 +0000

Why have I been seeing people use "enshitification" so much lately? Yes I know where it comes from and what it means. It's like Cory Doctorow is the new Noam Chomsky of IT and enshitification has replaced "manufactured consent".

New comment by zcw100 in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

zcw100 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:54:51 +0000

Many technical directions in the past 15 years have been a thinly veiled attempt to actually get paid for doing work.

New comment by zcw100 in "Nvidia Reportedly Ends GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Production, RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB Next"

zcw100 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:08:16 +0000

Have some faith, if it really is an AI bubble and it pops imagine the deals you're going to get like when Etherium went to PoS.