Hacker News: zeroCalories

New comment by zeroCalories in "GPT-6 Astra"

zeroCalories — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:45:58 +0000

Can it? Last I checked, all my free software operating systems and browsers were still hacked together trash. I can't wait for AI to actually be good so I can spam a bunch of AGPL code with it.

New comment by zeroCalories in "If You Build It, They Will Come"

zeroCalories — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:50:07 +0000

The stigma is pure cope. Most nerdy types I know wasted a ton of time on some stupid hobby. If not video games, it was some other dumb geek thing like anime, comic books, or furries.

New comment by zeroCalories in "If You Build It, They Will Come"

zeroCalories — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:41:34 +0000

That's the cost of doing business. Luckily, you can't go bankrupt from hurt feelings....

New comment by zeroCalories in "Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds"

zeroCalories — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:23:12 +0000

Lol this feels trite to say, but tech bros are not ideologically homogenous. You and the author are mixing up different people commonly identified as tech bros.

New comment by zeroCalories in "Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise"

zeroCalories — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:53:22 +0000

These are not mere personal goals, they provide value back to society, which in turn helps others to achieve these goals. That's why we are concerned with them. We have a generation of leeches and losers that are only concerned with maximizing their consumption, not leaving behind a legacy.

New comment by zeroCalories in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

zeroCalories — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:00:59 +0000

Hi can you please delete my account? I'm trying to quit posting on social media

New comment by zeroCalories in "Ask HN: How do you effectively communicate or present?"

zeroCalories — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:19:16 +0000

I'm a horrible communicator, but these are some tips that have helped me:

1. Give the conclusion first, ramble the details after so people don't get lost.

2. Only share something if it impacts decision making, otherwise it's just noise.

3. Prefer arguments based on facts, because "I don't like it" is too vague for others to make decisions on.

New comment by zeroCalories in "Bun has been converted to rust. Now what?"

zeroCalories — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:08:44 +0000

Then you would expect to see several related CVEs and outages related to this? How many? Would you be willing to bet on it?

New comment by zeroCalories in "Bun has been converted to rust. Now what?"

zeroCalories — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:13:55 +0000

To be fair, who cares about ai slop websites? To be honest, they're often better than the average webdev garbage. Language runtimes are held to a much, much, higher standard.

New comment by zeroCalories in "Bun Has Been Converted to Rust. Now What?"

zeroCalories — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:09:39 +0000

I would trust a zig -> rust translation far less if it didn't make liberal use of unsafe, because that implies an order of magnitude more aggressive refactoring

New comment by zeroCalories in "Bun Has Been Converted to Rust. Now What?"

zeroCalories — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:05:43 +0000

Depends on who vibe codes it. At the end of the day the Bun developers are the ones responsible for the quality of their software. If they've reviewed the code closely, tested it, and eat their own dog food, then I don't see why I should treat it any different from any other untrusted 3p dependency.

IMO, the main problem with vibe coding is that it empowers reckless behavior at companies like Microsoft, and that people with no serious investment in outcomes are empowered to make things. Does that apply to Anthropic? The Bun team? It's not 100% clear yet.

New comment by zeroCalories in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

zeroCalories — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:51:47 +0000

Sometimes you gotta let people know how awesome you are. The real question is if you're misrepresenting yourself(all marketing, no substance).

New comment by zeroCalories in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

zeroCalories — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:08:20 +0000

What you mean is that you can't have everything you want on minimum wage

New comment by zeroCalories in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

zeroCalories — Sat, 09 May 2026 09:32:58 +0000

Maybe you need to watch more Clavicular streams

New comment by zeroCalories in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

zeroCalories — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:29:53 +0000

No one really "needs" anything. You can live perfectly well on minimum wage. But really, you could survive perfectly well as a slave. Infact, the world is content for you to die and get nothing. All "need" is "want". All you deserve is what you have leverage for.

New comment by zeroCalories in "Write some software, give it away for free"

zeroCalories — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:39:45 +0000

Do you not trust your teammates? LGTM click merge

New comment by zeroCalories in "Banned by Anthropic"

zeroCalories — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:58:30 +0000

After getting to the point where vibe coded slop is getting pushed to production it's not clear to me if a future where AI can replace me is a worse future than we have now.

New comment by zeroCalories in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

zeroCalories — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:03:53 +0000

Yeah just say horse radish geeze

New comment by zeroCalories in "Ask HN: Are your product managers sending PRs?"

zeroCalories — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:18:33 +0000

I told my PM they can send me PRs if I can send them PRs for review.

New comment by zeroCalories in "Anthropic silently downgraded cache TTL from 1h → 5M on March 6th"

zeroCalories — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:09:45 +0000

Several thoughts went through my head before I realized what's wrong:

1. I guess longer caching means more stale data, which is why it's a downgrade? 2. Maybe this isn't the TTL I thought it was? 3. Maybe this isn't the cache I thought?

Then I clicked on the link and realized I had been mislead my the title.