Hacker News: ziftface

New comment by ziftface in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

ziftface — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:47:55 +0000

The sun

New comment by ziftface in "Qwen3-Max-Thinking"

ziftface — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:53:48 +0000

Incidentally, a western model has very famously been producing csam publicly for weeks.

New comment by ziftface in "Say No to Palantir in the NHS"

ziftface — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 03:13:04 +0000

It's totally reasonable to be skeptical of palantir without knowing the exact product in question, given their record.

New comment by ziftface in "Magit Is Amazing"

ziftface — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:24:05 +0000

I've used it before when I used to use emacs and it's really neat and simple to use but I think lazygit is better. I think of lazygit as the spiritual successor of magit. If you're curious what that looks like you can see a descriptive video on their GitHub.

New comment by ziftface in "Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Korea's investments"

ziftface — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 06:57:46 +0000

If a Chinese company was making a substantial investment in Korea, they would likely not be stupid enough to jeopardize the project over some paperwork.

New comment by ziftface in "Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Korea's investments"

ziftface — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 06:34:19 +0000

Do you have another explanation?

New comment by ziftface in "I Don't Like "AI""

ziftface — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:03:07 +0000

It's not necessary to provide proof that humans are not machines which do nothing but guess the next likely word. But also feeling anything at all is proof of that.

New comment by ziftface in "Building your own CLI coding agent with Pydantic-AI"

ziftface — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:12:38 +0000

I had the opposite experience. I liked the niceties of Pydantic AI, but had trouble with it that I found difficult to deal with. For example, some of the models wouldn't stream, but the OpenAI models did. It took months to resolve, and well before that I switched to LiteLLM and just hand-rolled the agentic logic stuff. LiteLLM's docs were simple and everything worked as expected. The agentic code is simple enough that I'm not sure what the value-add for some of these libraries is besides adding complexity and the opportunity for more bugs. I'm sure for more complex use cases they can be useful, but for most of the applications I've seen, a simple translation layer like LiteLLM or maybe OpenRouter is more than enough.

New comment by ziftface in "Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)""

ziftface — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 06:15:29 +0000

I think Simon was being overly charitable by pointing out that there's a chance this exact behavior was unintentional.

It really strains credulity to say that a Musk-owned ai model that answers controversial questions by looking up what his Twitter profile says was completely out of the blue. Unless they are able to somehow show this wasn't built into the training process I don't see anyone taking this model seriously for its intended use, besides maybe the sycophants who badly need to a summary of Elon Musk's tweets.

New comment by ziftface in "Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library"

ziftface — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 21:14:32 +0000

Would love if the site had some more information about how the components are implemented, eg does it use tailwind so they're easily modifiable, is there a light mode and a dark mode for each, can you update the animations to fit your needs, etc. They look good though!

New comment by ziftface in "Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots with web access"

ziftface — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 05:24:26 +0000

It might be worth putting those examples and other use cases you've found in the post. That is certainly something Google can't do.

New comment by ziftface in "Try Clojure"

ziftface — Thu, 23 May 2024 06:49:30 +0000

Autocomplete works for me with jvm imports

New comment by ziftface in "Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal"

ziftface — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 21:01:40 +0000

I actually like being in the terminal for the most part. The vast majority of GUI applications are a huge disappointment.

New comment by ziftface in "Sunday service suspended at all NYPL locations"

ziftface — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 20:29:26 +0000

In what way has a migrant surge affected the budget?

New comment by ziftface in "Lapce Editor 0.3"

ziftface — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 20:27:04 +0000

I haven't made a vscode extension, but I don't agree that neovim extensions are created with any great difficulty. The lua API is easy to use and well documented. There is a huge ecosystem of neovim extensions precisely because it is so easy to get started.

New comment by ziftface in "0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt"

ziftface — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 20:18:23 +0000

Already very well-paid criminals for that matter

New comment by ziftface in "Google was founded 25 years ago today"

ziftface — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 10:46:54 +0000

I hadn't thought of it that way, you're making some good points.

New comment by ziftface in "Google was founded 25 years ago today"

ziftface — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 09:48:29 +0000

The same way libraries are free: they're actually paid for by taxpayers.

If the internet was invented in America's earlier days, a lot of these information tools would be a public service, similar to libraries, and we'd all be better for it.

New comment by ziftface in "West Point discovers time capsule from 1828"

ziftface — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 12:44:33 +0000

I would definitely expect a high correlation between the top software engineering school and software engineering accomplishments, because there's a strong bias. If you want to achieve something in software engineering, most likely you'd want to go to a top school. I think it's the same for West point.

New comment by ziftface in "Mother is arrested in Bangladesh after son in US criticizes government online"

ziftface — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 17:02:06 +0000

To add to this, funding autocratic governments in these countries with billions in "aid" also delays foreign progress towards democracy.