Hacker News: zer0tonin

New comment by zer0tonin in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

zer0tonin — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:28:53 +0000

On my side, I can give many examples of random software that became significantly worse since the AI trend started.

Trainline is practically unusable for purchasing itineraries that go accross multiple european countries. GitHub Actions now contains a bunch of extremely frustrating random bugs. Grammarly somehow gives worse copy recommendations.

New comment by zer0tonin in "Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame"

zer0tonin — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:23:01 +0000

Really cool looking stuff.

Protecting Godot games against reverse engineering

zer0tonin — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:02:48 +0000

Article URL: https://alicegg.tech/2026/04/03/godot-encryption

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47626203

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zer0tonin in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

zer0tonin — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:41:49 +0000

That's very optimistic.

New comment by zer0tonin in "I love my dumb watches"

zer0tonin — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:53:57 +0000

It's a watch. It's an item that literally has one single job: tell the time accurately. It goes without saying that it should do a pretty good job at this and be accurate.

New comment by zer0tonin in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

zer0tonin — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:50:40 +0000

Because this site is basically dead for any other subject than vibecoding and AI agents.

Making Games in Go with Ebitengine

zer0tonin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:39:09 +0000

Article URL: https://alicegg.tech/2026/01/06/ebitengine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46512067

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zer0tonin in "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"

zer0tonin — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:54:35 +0000

Aider is integrated with git

New comment by zer0tonin in "Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop"

zer0tonin — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:27:34 +0000

When I was a teenager, tiny core saved me for a few months. My laptop had died and all I could use until I got a replacement was an old desktop computer we had around with 256MB of RAM. It was around the end of the windows 7 era, so even Xubuntu was struggling on such an old computer.

Tiny Core ran surprisingly well and I could actually use it to browse the web and use IRC.

New comment by zer0tonin in "We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months"

zer0tonin — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:48:14 +0000

Not only just one run per model, but no metrics other than total return. If you pick stocks at random you have a very high chance of beating the S&P 500, so you need a bit more than that to make a good benchmark.

New comment by zer0tonin in "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service"

zer0tonin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 10:11:17 +0000

This resonates with me. Last week I got stuck on a bug where GitHub actions was pulling ARMv7 docker images when I specifically requested ARMv8. Absolutely impossible to reproduce locally either.

New comment by zer0tonin in "The Junior Hiring Crisis"

zer0tonin — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:46:22 +0000

> Wages for your typical engineer stopped going up 5+ years ago

Not true for Western Europe. Getting more than 60k euros yearly as a software engineer was hard in 2019, it's now basically impossible to get less than that.

New comment by zer0tonin in "The Junior Hiring Crisis"

zer0tonin — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:34:26 +0000

Having a data science degree doesn't really mean much by itself. There's a lot of graduates that come out of it with no marketable skills.

And no, coding is not the new poetry. I wish people would stop spamming this website with doomer nonsense like this.

New comment by zer0tonin in "Show HN: Boing"

zer0tonin — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:27:07 +0000

I don't think so

New comment by zer0tonin in "Be Like Clippy"

zer0tonin — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:19:31 +0000

Sorry to be the one breaking the news to you, but I don't think this site has been a "hacker forum" since at least a decade.

New comment by zer0tonin in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

zer0tonin — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:16:15 +0000

No, Google was 10x better than any competitor until they started actively sabotaging their search product in the past 5 years or so.

ChatGPT feels like an inferior product when compared to Claude or Qwen.

New comment by zer0tonin in "Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub"

zer0tonin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:23:14 +0000

The Netherlands has its own semi supply chain, from photolithographs to chip design to printing the actual chips.

New comment by zer0tonin in "FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter"

zer0tonin — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:51:39 +0000

Yeah, LLMs are absolutely terrible for GDscript and anything gamedev related really. It's mostly because games are typically not open source.

New comment by zer0tonin in "Oracle hit hard in Wall Street's tech sell-off over its AI bet"

zer0tonin — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:28:51 +0000

If you were an actual "greybeard" your references would be Pets.com and Worldcom. Those didn't end the same way as Uber/Tesla.

New comment by zer0tonin in "OpenAI probably can't make ends meet. That's where you come in"

zer0tonin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:12:07 +0000

If the US government has to find 1T$ somewhere, it isn't very good for US treasuries you know.