Hacker News: zephod

New comment by zephod in "Zed 1.0"

zephod — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:19:58 +0000

I tried Zed for a few days and loved it, but had to switch back to Cursor because I've become dependent on Cursor Tab.

The problem is that Cursor Tab seems kinda psychic, and I didn't realise how conditioned I'd become to just expressing a few keystrokes in the right place and have Tab pick up my intentions. If you're refactoring, you can move between files and it'll remember what you just did in a tab you just closed, and work out how to make the same changes here.

It's also really good at picking up patterns and the right imports from the whole repo. It seems to be working with a much larger, more persistent context.

I tried Zed AI, Copilot, and Mercury. All three seemed forgetful after a year of Cursor Tab. I wish there was a fix because literally everything else about Zed was an improvement.

New comment by zephod in "Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment"

zephod — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 23:16:00 +0000

This lends even more weight to the theory that Massive Attack’s singer is, in fact, Banksy.

New comment by zephod in "London's 850-year-old food markets to close"

zephod — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:39:55 +0000

We spent our first year as a startup hacking on laptops in the attic of Smithfields, along with a dozen other startups. No idea if Innovation Warehouse is still up there[1]. If you arrived at work early enough they'd still be hosing the blood off the tarmac from the early morning market.

Most startups moved out to WeWork as soon as they could turn a profit. But hey, it was cheap office space in super-central London.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/innovationwarehouselondon/

New comment by zephod in "From Harlem to Herrang: An Original Lindy Hopper Blooms in Sweden"

zephod — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 21:00:48 +0000

I have many happy memories of weeks at Herrang. In fact I got offered my first job in open source there after a chance meeting, and my first startup can trace its origin to some conversations with other hackers in between dance classes.

New comment by zephod in "Mixing Vue.js templates with server-side templates can lead to XSS"

zephod — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:24:56 +0000

Let's be clear - this affects client-side apps which include the template compiler (ie. the full vue.js bundle). Right? So apps built with Webpack, and using vue.runtime.min.js should be safe?

I'd imagine that represents the majority of Vue apps in production, but I might be wrong.

New comment by zephod in "Show HN: VPS Comparison – Automated tests to compare VPS by yourself"

zephod — Tue, 02 May 2017 13:08:37 +0000

I think virtualization is a fancy word for cloud.

New comment by zephod in "America has never had so much TV, and even Hollywood is overwhelmed"

zephod — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:55:06 +0000

$3.8B? The average subscription amount is slightly less than $10,000/month...

New comment by zephod in "Elevated error rates on applications and deployments"

zephod — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 14:05:25 +0000

What was it?

New comment by zephod in "Weave and Docker for Mac: The bridge between local and remote services"

zephod — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:08:38 +0000

Offtopic, but does anybody know how the diagrams in this article were generated? I'd love a simple piece of software to generate beautiful, straightforward pictures like this to explain architectural problems.

New comment by zephod in "Hiten Shah on VC funding vs. bootstrapping and how to determine ‘grit’ [video]"

zephod — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 18:12:10 +0000

I'd like to listen to this as a podcast later -- any idea how I can get hold of it, without running a Flash video player in a desktop browser?

New comment by zephod in "How to Value a SaaS Business"

zephod — Sat, 27 Feb 2016 12:05:55 +0000

My feeling is that a simple revenue multiplier doesn't work as a seed stage business valuation.

For example, how does this work for pre-revenue SaaS startups valued $1M-$5M during seed? Even if they've started generating revenue, much of their value comes from the long-term network effects and potential to create a market (right?)

New comment by zephod in "Show HN: Jolteon – Babel/Electron/React/Browserify/Sass application stack"

zephod — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:03:04 +0000

The highly popular React Starter Kit disagrees:

https://github.com/kriasoft/react-starter-kit/commit/ed14145...

New comment by zephod in "301 redirects: a dangerous one way street (2012)"

zephod — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:04:56 +0000

What data do you need? This is empirically observable. Half the people in this thread are giving you examples.

New comment by zephod in "301 redirects: a dangerous one way street (2012)"

zephod — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:22:41 +0000

I took over a domain which had previously 301-redirected HTTP:// to HTTPS://. It caused us no end of trouble getting the alpha site online -- obviously we set up SSL but we didn't realise it was the _first thing we'd have to do_.

It also caused half a day of confusion to understand why some of our web browsers were still failing to connect and others could see the alpha site (because they'd never visited the previous 301 site at that address).

New comment by zephod in "On the Proposed PHP Code of Conduct"

zephod — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 21:02:15 +0000

It did say [Flagged] for a while, though. I was reading the discussion and it bounced in-and-out of existence while I was trying to contribute. The Reply button would disappear; at one point the link and title were removed, then restored. I guess this is what the Vouch system is for.

New comment by zephod in "People Call Me Aaron"

zephod — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 23:20:59 +0000

Intuitively I'd agree, but I was surprised at how many people/friends/colleagues didn't know what I was talking about when The Internet's Own Boy was released. If they weren't readers of Hacker News they almost certainly didn't pick up on the story. Again - anecdotal.

New comment by zephod in "People Call Me Aaron"

zephod — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 22:48:25 +0000

This is so sad. I wonder if Noah has considered moving abroad for a bit - in my experience, very few people in the London tech scene know who Aaron Swartz was, or if they've heard the name they will struggle to remember the story behind it. Maybe people will disagree, but I don't think the story had quite the same cultural resonance outside the USA.

New comment by zephod in "Unethical Growth Hacking from YayView"

zephod — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 14:48:46 +0000

I wasn't at all surprised to see this is a funded startup -- it's had a lot of effort put into the design and execution, and it just screams desperation to me. I imagine somebody is under a lot of pressure to hit their growth metrics, and they probably convinced themselves that throwing out the rulebook is ok.

New comment by zephod in "Please do not delete this commented-out version"

zephod — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 00:22:33 +0000

But you could _delete it today_ and it would not be lost. Right?

New comment by zephod in "Please do not delete this commented-out version"

zephod — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 00:00:28 +0000

No idea why this was downvoted. Perfectly legitimate question given unclear circumstances.