Hacker News: zht

New comment by zht in "US Military says 3 service members have been killed"

zht — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:29:37 +0000

Why would Iran, a Shia majority country being attacked, enrage the Sunni countries?

New comment by zht in "Productivity gains from AI coding assistants haven’t budged past 10% – survey"

zht — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:16:03 +0000

the number of people who have heard of Amdahl's law but don't know when to use "amount of X" vs "number of Y" always shocks me as well

New comment by zht in "Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model"

zht — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 13:11:27 +0000

It’s kinda misleading to omit the generally terrible prompt processing speed on Macs

30 tokens per second looks good until you have to wait minutes for the first token

New comment by zht in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

zht — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:13:38 +0000

Do you have data suggesting AWS outages are more frequent and/or take longer to resolve?

New comment by zht in "Tech megacaps lose $770B in value as Nasdaq suffers steepest drop since April"

zht — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 17:23:31 +0000

Tesla’s FSD is on par with Waymo?

New comment by zht in "Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August"

zht — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:29:43 +0000

why do you say that?

I can say, that 99% of those students are much less obese than the average US citizen

New comment by zht in "She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her Nudes to Facebook (2021)"

zht — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 17:56:48 +0000

Keep in mind it doesn’t always work and never works in YouTube full screen mode

New comment by zht in "AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more"

zht — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:19:20 +0000

the MSG company also makes film for CPU manufacturing?

New comment by zht in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

zht — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:08:42 +0000

grok was praising hitler...

New comment by zht in "Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to know"

zht — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:26:15 +0000

dynamically created symbols have been garbage collected for almost 10 years

New comment by zht in "Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers"

zht — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:37:21 +0000

I think it's more like you buy an abandoned house where people used to go buy drugs

you buy the house and people are still coming knocking on your door asking you if you have any drugs to sell

you're not doing anything wrong, but if the police notice people constantly coming to your house to buy drugs they may do something about it

New comment by zht in "Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab"

zht — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:34:49 +0000

is he not?

what about the whole metaverse thing and renaming the whole company to meta?

New comment by zht in "Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today""

zht — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:28:12 +0000

Elon is tearing apart the federal government

I don't think he's living "rent-free" in those people's minds. his actions directly negatively affect them and their families.

New comment by zht in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

zht — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:18:23 +0000

yes? is this a serious question?

New comment by zht in "Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today""

zht — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:47 +0000

unfortunately they are now just hanging out at the nazi bar

New comment by zht in "Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today""

zht — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:11 +0000

his actions are ripping apart the Federal Government and will have huge, negative impact, on millions of people

New comment by zht in "Amazon MGM Studios will gain creative control of the James Bond franchise"

zht — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:55:49 +0000

we barely do democracy anymore

New comment by zht in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

zht — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:12:31 +0000

Do you think rap music has had more of an impact on society or democracy than TikTok or YouTube shorts or just Facebook?

New comment by zht in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

zht — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:11:42 +0000

AR-15s can be used for hunting but it doesn’t mean it is always used for good

New comment by zht in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

zht — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:10:52 +0000

It is much worse lol

Videos cram so much stimulation over such a short period of time

Text you still have to read