Hacker News: zemo

New comment by zemo in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

zemo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:23:28 +0000

So who will buy their cursed campus when they collapse?

New comment by zemo in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

zemo — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:03:03 +0000

in Chicago near Wrigley Field (the Cubs stadium), the closest train stop (Addison) was basically wall to wall (some on the floor too) DraftKings advertisements until recently because they have a physical sports betting bar adjacent to Wrigley Field. After the latest round of elections they're closing that location so the ads came down.

New comment by zemo in "Google changes its search box"

zemo — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:56:25 +0000

> I never want to have a conversation with a website that is geared towards advertising me products.

yeah man good thing LLMs are structurally incapable of being incentivized to sell you a product or render referral links, this is surely future-proof

New comment by zemo in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

zemo — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:30:02 +0000

oh i’ve definitely seen “we’re going to track the number of bugs created in jira per team” turn into “people just file things as tasks instead of bugs” or “only easy things are filed as bugs and completed right away”. It’s trivially gameable.

New comment by zemo in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

zemo — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:26:45 +0000

nice try, Claude

New comment by zemo in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

zemo — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:24:01 +0000

working in a large codebase I use Claude for code understanding and the code reviews from Macroscope have caught bugs for me a bunch of times. Usually if I use claude it’s for refactoring a and source to source transformations that would be too confusing for me to figure out how to do with e.g. ast-grep, but that I can prompt in a minute or two and then have claude work through it. It’s stuff I could do without LLMs but it’s less effort to use them. I don’t let it write new code, because it decays the process of programming as theory building.

New comment by zemo in "Googlebook"

zemo — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:53:55 +0000

the last time I went to Japan was I think 2015 and the exchange rate was about 120 yen to the dollar. I bought almost all of the clothing that I wore for the next year or two during a stretch of three days in Tokyo. The exchange rate right now is 155 yen to the dollar and prices on everything in the US have gone through the roof, so this doesn't seem all that ridiculous to me. I am more annoyed by the assumption that I live in SF than the idea that I might go from SF to Tokyo on a vintage shopping trip.

New comment by zemo in "RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both"

zemo — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:53:23 +0000

tech peaked at the PS Vita and I am not joking

New comment by zemo in "Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions"

zemo — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:50:57 +0000

ideally european/asian users would hit european/asian servers, so potentially not surprising

New comment by zemo in "Keycard – inject API keys into subprocesses, never touch shell env"

zemo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:42:29 +0000

Reads like it’s not copying the parent, it’s manually constructing the env dictionary to be passed to execve explicitly. I do this in one of my tools at work because developers were exfiltrating secrets and hand jamming them into .env files.

New comment by zemo in "Keycard – inject API keys into subprocesses, never touch shell env"

zemo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:40:36 +0000

> Password manager > No CLI injection.

reminds me of the 1password cli:

https://developer.1password.com/docs/cli/reference/commands/...

New comment by zemo in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

zemo — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:15:41 +0000

that's more or less how I felt about it, but someone I know worked at Whatnot and liked working there so I tried out the app before applying and then applied because the product clicked for me. I wouldn't have joined Whatnot if I didn't like the product.

> I couldn't imagine going through items video by video.

That's fair, it's just not how people use it and it's not the concept. It's primarily a browse experience, not a search experience. You can search but that's not the core experience.

I buy vinyl records and retro games. There are sellers that I like. When I open the app I see which of my preferred sellers are live and I tune into their stream and hang out and watch them. If something I'm interested in pops up, I'll bid on it. Live shopping is not trying to be "ebay but video", it's a different experience.

New comment by zemo in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

zemo — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:14:45 +0000

full disclosure I work at Whatnot but that sort of thing is a large part of the appeal of Whatnot to me, that people are showing off the stuff live on stream and you can ask questions about it

New comment by zemo in "Goodbye to Sora"

zemo — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:17:29 +0000

violence at scale is often facilitated by and preceded by propaganda at scale, which is one of Sora’s only applications. Certain things are obvious to normal people, like “propaganda is real, powerful, bad, and historical of enormous significance”.

New comment by zemo in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

zemo — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:27:39 +0000

"was being pushed" ... by whom? I think there's widespread grassroots support for it because it's a good tool.

New comment by zemo in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

zemo — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:47:27 +0000

> but I think his versions are better, they deserve to be presented by themselves, instead of alongside the mental clickbait of the classic aphorisms

keeping the historical chain of thinking alive is good, actually

New comment by zemo in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

zemo — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:58:43 +0000

respectfully, I do not find Mecha Hitler to be particularly free of bias.

New comment by zemo in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

zemo — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:33:05 +0000

Meta could not get more uncool

New comment by zemo in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

zemo — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:56:59 +0000

> Anthropic's marketing somehow punches hard. Not sure why

The fish rots from the head and marketing depends on being relatable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAg8_yf9zA

Take a scroll through the comments.

New comment by zemo in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"

zemo — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:52:31 +0000

> memcached is multithreaded, so it scales up better per node.

redis i/o is multithreaded, it's just the command loop that's single-threaded. If all you're doing is SET and GET of individual key-value pairs, every time I've seen a redis instance run hot under that sort of load, the bottleneck was the network card, never the CPU.

I ... actually think scaling redis for simple k-v storage is already pretty easy so I dunno that that's much of a concern?

mcrouter ... damn I haven't thought about mcrouter in at least 10 years.