Hacker News: zerotolerance

New comment by zerotolerance in "Pwn.college"

zerotolerance — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:00:54 +0000

I learned a ton through similar exercises on cyberarmy.com back in like 2002. Looks like it is still online: https://www.ca-zeb.com

New comment by zerotolerance in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

zerotolerance — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 16:58:30 +0000

Maybe through a very specific engineering perspective it was interesting. From a broader engineering perspective it was embarrassing. It is called a truck, very much not a truck. Nearly no actual utility. No hauling capability. No durability. Falls apart because it is glued together. Shows every place where someone brushed up against it. Poor fit to the operating environment.

I'll give you that it was a unique design. But if we're talking about engineering... it could not have promised more or delivered less.

New comment by zerotolerance in "Please Let the Internet Die. It's Time to Start Over"

zerotolerance — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:56:56 +0000

The ability to adapt vernacular to different sociolects is important for mass communicators.

New comment by zerotolerance in "Somebody please stop the spam texts"

zerotolerance — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 21:16:16 +0000

Outbound is over. RIP

New comment by zerotolerance in "Somebody please stop the spam texts"

zerotolerance — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 21:15:43 +0000

I have no faith that this would have any impact whatsoever. The thing is, it also isn't my problem. It has absolutely ruined outbound sales. I'll never answer my phone or accept a text from anyone not in my contacts. I basically don't read email. I'm unreachable to people who I'm not expecting outreach from. And I'm fine with it, only because I'm not the one trying to make a living cold calling people.

New comment by zerotolerance in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

zerotolerance — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:56:38 +0000

When the courts have no power or are complicit then legality is irrelevant.

New comment by zerotolerance in "We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare"

zerotolerance — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:05:37 +0000

We've gone fully offline with our code and artifact storage. No need for a social network with vestigial low-quality dev tooling. Our devs don't even need a web UI. Bare git repos on SSH are plenty for agent workflows.

Now that we don't have to worry about people and weak git skill getting in the way, agents can use git without needing all the emergent centralization.

New comment by zerotolerance in "Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta"

zerotolerance — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:58:40 +0000

Meta glasses are already officially banned in our office and in front of our laptops.

New comment by zerotolerance in "I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture"

zerotolerance — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:05:06 +0000

On the other hand here we have an amateur that could accelerate their learning and experimentation faster than ever possible before.

New comment by zerotolerance in "iPhone Duo"

zerotolerance — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:00:57 +0000

Feels like a tag-along solution looking for a problem.

New comment by zerotolerance in "I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers"

zerotolerance — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:23:51 +0000

How conditioned am I? I thought the title was a play on "em dashes" and when I got into the second paragraph and saw em dashes I immediately flipped to assuming I was reading a story from some never-lived life manifest by a diffusion model. I don't think it is. But that is irrelevant. The point is if our content cannot avoid or ultimately pass the sniff test it won't have the impact we hope.

New comment by zerotolerance in "Beware Management Consultants"

zerotolerance — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:29:38 +0000

Management consultants exist as a liability shift. Boards or exec management pay them money, the consultants interview them in private, the consultants give them their ideas back. This provides two things: cover, and political lubricant. Worth every penny when the alternative is completely dysfunctional management teams, or when it is your reputation or job on the line.

New comment by zerotolerance in "fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent."

zerotolerance — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:25:47 +0000

Because they're valueless and trivial to produce, but trends are gonna trend.

New comment by zerotolerance in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

zerotolerance — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:24:01 +0000

Another outcome is that none win.

New comment by zerotolerance in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

zerotolerance — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:21:41 +0000

Experimenting with your "scalability?" mean?

New comment by zerotolerance in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

zerotolerance — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:52:30 +0000

I just don't like the idea of an AI company saying that they've added a secret signature that isn't verifiable by any third party to all responses. And we're supposed to both take them at their word, and feed them all the content we want to check so they can continue gobbling up a bunch of fresh works. What is to stop them from saying "Oh yeah, that is ours. We signed it. Trust us."

The obvious conflicts here are wild.

New comment by zerotolerance in "Goodebye Forever Probably: Why I’m leaving developer relations"

zerotolerance — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:33:38 +0000

This is an excellent question and the answer is maybe not too surprising. Where mechanics buy their own tools and nurses have little tool purchasing power, developers produce machinery that is costly to change and if they struggle to use something (activation risk) then we can't get that lock-in to stick. DevRel isn't for the individuals, it is for influencing the aggregate so they get their companies stuck with the solution.

New comment by zerotolerance in "Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year"

zerotolerance — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:00:13 +0000

I cannot consume any content anywhere without being slapped in the face with an unending stream of OpenAI ads and paid plugs. I'd guess most of that money is going directly to Google and Facebook.

New comment by zerotolerance in "The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate"

zerotolerance — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:58:10 +0000

It is AI generated.

New comment by zerotolerance in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

zerotolerance — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:16:27 +0000

Should have renamed the company xGoodwill.