Hacker News: zephyreon

New comment by zephyreon in "Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise"

zephyreon — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:32:09 +0000

Aside from the obvious fact that this is AI slop, the author (prompter?) doesn’t consider the R&D of AI itself. Efficiency gains, more compute, etc.

We all know every frontier AI lab is heavily subsidizing usage, and so do all of the VCs & CEOs funding them.

New comment by zephyreon in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

zephyreon — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:22:51 +0000

You’d think this is how it works but universities and schools will still end up holding the bag at the end of the day, irrespective of who is responsible.

New comment by zephyreon in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

zephyreon — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:28:26 +0000

I’d like to see more investment in their new profile manager. It feels pretty barebones at the moment. Arc had the ability to link profiles to “spaces” and you could easily switch between them without opening a new window. It was very nice to so easily swap between personal, work, & side business.

New comment by zephyreon in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

zephyreon — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:13:54 +0000

Could definitely be writing on the wall that MV2 support will be deprecated in the future but imo not necessarily a bad thing if it’s not actively developed anyways. Maintaining both MV2 & MV3 support isn’t easily sustainable long term when you factor in the need to prioritize other features.

That said, if this is writing on the wall I’d hope they’ll listen to the community this time and allow the engine to be extended / make it such that a block all ads feature always exists. I’m cautiously optimistic given Mozilla’s track record just over the past year-ish. They have released some great new features that help bring Firefox closer to feature parity with other browsers.

I am a Firefox hopeful and recently switched back to using it as my daily driver when Arc went belly up (but mainly for uBlock Origin support).

New comment by zephyreon in "CSS as a Query Language"

zephyreon — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:09:30 +0000

This is neat, but no. /s

New comment by zephyreon in "2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email"

zephyreon — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:40:57 +0000

Posts like these always give me a moment of pause to reflect just how expansive the global internet is.

New comment by zephyreon in "I gave every train in New York an instrument"

zephyreon — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:59:53 +0000

Very neat. This is an example of digital art that I’d love to see exist in physical form somehow. I suppose it could get rather noisy at a museum but I love the intersection of mass transit & music.

New comment by zephyreon in "Show HN: Travel Hacking Toolkit – Points search and trip planning with AI"

zephyreon — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:46:21 +0000

Just sent this to my partner. He’s super into travel hacking and this will be a nice add to his toolkit.

New comment by zephyreon in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

zephyreon — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:04:43 +0000

This is the classic car wash subscription scheme. You sign up a bunch of people for $40 a month to wash their car. Most people only go to wash their car once or twice a month (or even less), which offsets those few folks that do it three times a week or more.

The problem Anthropic is running into is that OpenClaw made it easy for everyone to become one of those folks that washes their car three times a week or more.

I’m sure they were losing money on subscriptions in general but now they are really losing money. Shutting off OpenClaw specifically probably helps stem some of the bleeding.

New comment by zephyreon in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

zephyreon — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:36:01 +0000

Yah well I'll be downgrading my subscription to the $20/month plan for the light chats I have with AI outside of using custom harnesses and will figure out a better provider for the agentic tooling.

New comment by zephyreon in "Show HN: Public transit systems as data – lines, stations, railcars, and history"

zephyreon — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:38:12 +0000

So interesting that Baltimore’s very subpar public transit system made it into the first batch of systems — not complaining at all I love that city & love to see it in random places on the internet :)

New comment by zephyreon in "GM requires you to submit their opt-out form multiple times with name variations"

zephyreon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:24:26 +0000

An interesting hearing it from that perspective. I had not considered that this could be used across all of the systems they have in place.

To add to this, I did a quick search on archive.org and it seems like they’ve had this site in place since 2006, albeit in different variations. Perhaps that is why they have a “global” opt-out across all of their marketing databases? Something that has just always been in place.

https://web.archive.org/web/20061103202329/https://gmcontact...

New comment by zephyreon in "GM requires you to submit their opt-out form multiple times with name variations"

zephyreon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:15:05 +0000

On my weekly unsubscribe binge I recently tried to opt out of General Motors marketing communications.

They have a form that requires you enter your full name, address, phone number, and email just to process an unsubscribe.

In addition, they indicate that you may need to enter the form multiple times with different variations of your name in order to be successful.

If by some miracle you succeed at opting out of marketing communications, your opt out is only honored for 10 years and does not include OnStar or GM Financial.

I have seen terrible opt-out practices before but this is probably one of the more egregious ones I’ve encountered.

I’d also be curious to hear if people think the patchwork of data privacy laws that have been going into effect across the U.S. might affect processes like this or if just having the process is enough. I know it is probably somewhat subjective.

GM requires you to submit their opt-out form multiple times with name variations

zephyreon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:15:05 +0000

Article URL: https://gmcontactpreferences.com/opt-out-all.jsp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547655

Points: 5

# Comments: 4

New comment by zephyreon in "Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost"

zephyreon — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:12:39 +0000

Ditto. Though I always take the lazy route and just change port numbers until I find an open one. My Mac is probably running like 20 different localhost apps at any given time.

New comment by zephyreon in "Show HN: I made an email app inspired by Arc browser"

zephyreon — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:10:23 +0000

And here.

New comment by zephyreon in "Show HN: March Madness Bracket Challenge for AI Agents Only"

zephyreon — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:16:50 +0000

I'm usually pretty opinionated on using AI for reasons I generally view as productive - for example, not moltbook - however this is actually really neat and doesn't require a ton of token usage assuming you don't instruct your agent to do multiple turns of analysis on the stats :)

It'll be interesting to see what strategies agents choose to implement & whether there are any meaningful trends.

New comment by zephyreon in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

zephyreon — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:54:56 +0000

Learning to choose your words more wisely as you age does not necessarily indicate your underlying value system has evolved.

New comment by zephyreon in "Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door"

zephyreon — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:17:08 +0000

Seems like DO sure has a bot problem. I wonder what percentage of their business is less-scrupulous actors.

Verizon Outage

zephyreon — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:06:10 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/verizon-cellular-outage-85d658a4fb6a6175cae8981d91a809c9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624371

Points: 3

# Comments: 1