Hacker News: zenethian

New comment by zenethian in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

zenethian — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:26:25 +0000

As a Minnesotan I would gladly trade Alberta for Minnesota and become Canadian.

New comment by zenethian in "LoRA and Weight Decay (2023)"

zenethian — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:16:02 +0000

Every time I see an article about LoRA on here I think it’s about the radio technology LoRa that powers LoRaWAN and just for a moment I’m very excited.

New comment by zenethian in "The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it"

zenethian — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:18:43 +0000

You forgot the part where they stole literally everyone’s copyrighted works and trained on it and have not been sanctioned at all for it.

New comment by zenethian in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

zenethian — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:02:10 +0000

I read the comment as “use it to mitigate against OpenAI bots scraping the web” and not to mitigate Cloudflare.

New comment by zenethian in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

zenethian — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:32:28 +0000

You got some sources or did you just make that up?

Because to hell with UX when it comes to security. Knowing the exact length of a password absolutely makes it significantly less secure, and knowing the timing of the keystrokes doubly so.

New comment by zenethian in "Oil and gas prices jump after Iran and Israel attack gasfields"

zenethian — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:36:30 +0000

Time to get out our “I did that” stickers, right?

New comment by zenethian in "Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?"

zenethian — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:57:08 +0000

I still have my node address memorized. The very late 1980s and mid 90s were the very best era for the vibe of hobbyist computing. Amazing ANSI art and text driven menus still fill my heart with joy.

I still think that some of those systems are easier to use than what we have now.

I miss the quality of EchoMail conversations with friends around the world. I even ended up moderating a few echoes myself after mods had moved on.

Good times.

New comment by zenethian in "New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind?"

zenethian — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:57:31 +0000

I am not a mathematician; I barely knew who Cantor was and had never heard of Dedekind. I would have likely not read the article without the title being so sensational. Your assumption sits upon the tip of your nose.

New comment by zenethian in "[dead]"

zenethian — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:54:58 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree. I pity any kid whose parents use this product. The AI use is irrelevant; this is just shameful.

New comment by zenethian in "SwiftForth IDE for Windows, Linux, macOS"

zenethian — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:24:31 +0000

Especially for $400

New comment by zenethian in "The Day the Telnet Died"

zenethian — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:42:23 +0000

Can you show the exact line in the RFC or IANA port reservations that says it has to implement a shell login interface with the Telnet protocol if it’s on port 23? Because I can’t find it. Nothing says that anywhere.

New comment by zenethian in "The Day the Telnet Died"

zenethian — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:31:24 +0000

Their replies are only obtuse because you fail to see that you’re being made fun of for having such a ridiculous pedantic position about this. “Terminal” does not mean shell when you read the Telnet RFC. It means TTY. A human to machine interface. MUDs implement the Telnet protocol and provide a remote TTY. What’s running on the terminal is absolutely irrelevant.

New comment by zenethian in "G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB)"

zenethian — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:03:31 +0000

Oh, we’re talking to an llm. Gross.

New comment by zenethian in "Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage"

zenethian — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:15:36 +0000

Okay but hurting consumers by tracking everything they do is totally okay?

Companies aren’t people. Fuck companies.

New comment by zenethian in "New books aren't worth reading?"

zenethian — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:42:37 +0000

Somebody deeply hurt this person and their anti-women stance is so bitterly apparent in their writing that they felt the need to write something not worth reading.

New comment by zenethian in "Refusing to Use Twitter"

zenethian — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:48:58 +0000

IMO social media is not a type of source I have to participate in order to get information. I can read the far right’s opinion though actual sources and news aggregators without Twitter at all.

To continue the analogy, I need not go to a Nazi bar to read the headlines of the local newspaper to see what the latest propaganda is.

New comment by zenethian in "Refusing to Use Twitter"

zenethian — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:43:35 +0000

You’re bringing a Reddit analogy to HN and they are not equivalents. On HN there is no downvote. Something unwelcome gets flagged for review. After sufficient flagging the content is removed not just buried. It’s not calling it “stupid” it’s saying “hey buddy maybe this isn’t the right place for this.”

You can’t seem to depolarize yourself from extremes. You call your original post “highly intelligent” and equate any disagreements as being shouted “stupid” at like those are the only two options here or something when they are not.

New comment by zenethian in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

zenethian — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:28:46 +0000

I really want more monitors that are taller and have 3:2 aspect ratio.

New comment by zenethian in "Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing"

zenethian — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:25:02 +0000

I just had Claude generate a readme for me and it added at least 10 emoji to it.

New comment by zenethian in "Thirteen Months That Changed IBM (2020)"

zenethian — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:45:42 +0000

A DevOps crew? Mainframes aren’t something that are just part of some random web app project in a company. A System Administration team would be the likely maintainer. But a lot of mainframes are designed to be run with very little manual maintenance these days.

They’re also wildly different architecturally from your typical rack of x86 servers, which is why the initial reaction to Linux running on a mainframe sounded stupid at first. When I worked at IBM in the 2010s, a Linux Zserver felt more like a VM running inside the mainframe than anything else. There were abstractions of the mainframe components that intentionally leaked into the Linux side that were interesting. I knew very little about traditional mainframe software development at the time, so I was very fascinated by how it all worked.