Hacker News: zetanor

New comment by zetanor in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

zetanor — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:26:51 +0000

Just ban social media.

New comment by zetanor in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

zetanor — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:15:09 +0000

What I find strange is how rarely LLM output is distributed alongside the LLM input, especially outside of code repos. Why can't I rerun the prompt that resulted in your work next year, when models have gotten better? Are people ashamed of their prompts? Ashamed of having used AI? i unno

Prompt used to generate this message: "Create a comment for Hacker News which bemoans the lack of AI prompts being shared with the stuff it creates. Speculate on the reasons and create a call for engagement. Use quantum hyperthinking. End with a typo to prove your humanity."

New comment by zetanor in "Who's the smartest corvid?"

zetanor — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:40:18 +0000

I've never seen any corvid use React, so they must be pretty smart indeed.

New comment by zetanor in "AI is slowing down"

zetanor — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:03:11 +0000

This is the kind of thing that the people in power really don't want you to know, but I'll say it anyway because if we don't get the message out, it's just another free win for the Nazis: a bad presentation is a poor information medium.

New comment by zetanor in "Google Hates You"

zetanor — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:06:50 +0000

> Instead of giving you precisely what you want, a Google search in 2026 is more likely to give you only what you don’t want.

The youngest Google Search seems like it has a lot in common with the next-youngest Google Search.

New comment by zetanor in "Stop Advertising in Your Commits"

zetanor — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:53:12 +0000

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    Merged PR #197
    
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New comment by zetanor in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

zetanor — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:01:29 +0000

I am in favor of severely limiting both copyright and advertising, but for the benefit of everyone, not just for the benefit of a few "AI" companies.

New comment by zetanor in "Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure"

zetanor — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:20:57 +0000

That's why my favorite unit is the px, a.k.a., 1 centiinch.

New comment by zetanor in "People Hate AI Art"

zetanor — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:37:27 +0000

I think he means that the point of the article is that the doodle is AI-generated.

New comment by zetanor in "Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings"

zetanor — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:43:17 +0000

The market valuates Roblox child abuse at almost a billion dollars?

New comment by zetanor in "United Wizards of the Coast"

zetanor — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:37:36 +0000

I understand that Europe doesn't have many mandatory union arrangements.

In Canada, unions are often shop-wide with no mechanism to opt out, which makes them very sticky and allows them to grow predatory if they can maintain enough corruption or apathy. I'm led to believe that many US states have similar problems, but that's only based on how American unions are portrayed in news and fiction.

New comment by zetanor in "EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs"

zetanor — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:46:52 +0000

It's HN, nobody reads articles even when they're not slop.

New comment by zetanor in "Does internet advertising work? (2020)"

zetanor — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 04:23:47 +0000

Advertising isn't just B2C, it's also B2B. The companies that make everything you buy (from the food you eat to the electrical wires you install in your walls) needs raw materials and machinery to produce anything. While there's trade shows and good ol' fashioned handshakes and whatnot, one of the main ways to sell B2B is just camp the top Google result spots by giving Google a lot of money to be the first result for the names of business inputs (or the names of your competitors, if you want to be cheeky).

When you hire a non-technical purchaser, when production line 13's full-body discombobulator breaks and the maintenance guy says "we need a new full-body discombobulator", the purchaser has no idea what a "full-body discombobulator" is or who makes it but they'll Google "full-body discombobulator" and they'll click [Buy Now] on whatever link shows up so that production line 13 can continue printing half a million bucks an hour.

New comment by zetanor in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

zetanor — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:55:07 +0000

online sociability protip: writing in all lowercase outside of instant messaging comes across (to me) as weirdly manipulative, status seeking behavior. you want people to read your stuff and to come to some form of conclusion—you wouldn't be writing, editing and posting text otherwise—but you feel you have to put your ideas and your vulnerability behind a moat of detached, nonchalant aesthetics

nothing personnel, kid

New comment by zetanor in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

zetanor — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:39:18 +0000

Offline, the client knows movement, graphics, statics (the world mesh, excluding the location and functionality of npcs, doors, plants, etc.) and some localized text. Almost all the gameplay logic is server-side.

New comment by zetanor in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

zetanor — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:08:52 +0000

What's the matter, honey? You've barely touched your corn in canola oil.

New comment by zetanor in "The human cost of 10x: How AI is physically breaking senior engineers"

zetanor — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:55:29 +0000

A watched pot never boils. A watched vibe coder never 10x-es.

New comment by zetanor in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design"

zetanor — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:56:45 +0000

Day-to-day usability doesn't bring much "wow" factor to a sales pitch.

New comment by zetanor in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

zetanor — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:30:09 +0000

I've tested just about every DNS provider I could find. Self-hosting and Bunny aside, my needs are especially well met by CloudDNS and LuaDNS.

https://www.cloudns.net/premium/

https://www.luadns.com/pricing.html

I've found every other offering to be lacking. Some examples: Cloudflare is alright but has settings footguns if you're not used to Their Way of Doing It™ (e.g., before using DNSControl, I had to manually flip switches to turn off proxying every time I updated my zones). deSEC is free and okay, but sometimes quite slow to propagate and its UI+API are unwieldy. DNS Made Easy is often pushed on social media, but it's ridiculously pricey for what you get if you don't need a SLA. DNSimple seemed nice but IIRC I couldn't get a different API token per zone (?).

I'm currently relying mainly on LuaDNS. For me, it functions as a "dumb" DNS host (i.e., not using their Lua configuration-as-code system). Their API is oddly designed, but it's been passable since a recent-ish update, which has allowed me to safely port my zone files to DNSControl.

https://dnscontrol.org

New comment by zetanor in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

zetanor — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:10:34 +0000

Military-style ARPANET designed primarily for nuclear warfare?