Hacker News: zja

New comment by zja in "Shooting down ideas is not a skill"

zja — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:58:53 +0000

Isn’t proving a market exists, building a proof of concept, etc, all examples of exploring an idea? Those seem like perfectly reasonable expectations.

New comment by zja in "GitHub's Historic Uptime"

zja — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:05:10 +0000

PR merging broken right now https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/ml7wplmxbt5l

New comment by zja in "US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike"

zja — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:59:21 +0000

It means if you sail through it, Iran will launch drones and missiles at your ship.

New comment by zja in "SmartOS"

zja — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:13:45 +0000

> This architecture has a variety of advantages including increased security, no need for patching, fast upgrades and recovery.

SmartOS was developed by Joyent for their cloud computing product, it's primary use case isn't desktop computing. I think the advantages mentioned above were probably a bigger factor than the disk space. I would also guess that PXE would be the standard way to boot in a datacenter, not USB.

New comment by zja in "6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available"

zja — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:38:32 +0000

The are some great points

New comment by zja in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

zja — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:57:11 +0000

https://zach.sexy

New comment by zja in "Google Opal"

zja — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:25:09 +0000

> Join our Discord for support and sharing feedback

I’m surprised to see Google directing people to Discord, do they do that for other products?

New comment by zja in "OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel"

zja — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:55:45 +0000

> otel is at odds with the observability business because these actors have little interest to contribute back to telemetry agents since anyone can reap the rewards of that.

But all major vendors _do_ contribute to OTEL.

New comment by zja in "Lawyers are already using AI. Will judges be next?"

zja — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 02:47:12 +0000

very cool story!

New comment by zja in "Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF?"

zja — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:59:30 +0000

pandoc

New comment by zja in "U.S. Military Strikes Drug Vessel from Venezuela, Killing 11"

zja — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 03:16:59 +0000

> the best solution seems to be treating them as military targets

Worked out great for the Philippines…

New comment by zja in "In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses"

zja — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:12:50 +0000

Seconded, I’ve yet to use an LLM that can consistently provide sources that back up what it’s telling me.

New comment by zja in "Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet"

zja — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:46:18 +0000

Governments employ millions of people, money is absolutely not a limitation.

New comment by zja in "AT&T Email-to-Text Gateway Service Ending June 17"

zja — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 04:06:58 +0000

Why would I want small businesses to be able to spam me as well the large ones? I’d prefer no one does, but less is better than more.

New comment by zja in "Reasoning models don't always say what they think"

zja — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 05:14:06 +0000

How is that in conflict with the fact that humans can introspect?

New comment by zja in "Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video]"

zja — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 23:22:12 +0000

Yeah I don’t know why GP would think computability theory doesn’t apply to AI. Is there a single example of a problem that isn’t computable by a Turing machine that can be computed by AI?

New comment by zja in "A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub"

zja — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 11:05:41 +0000

Siphoning money away from the public and to themselves is the whole point.

New comment by zja in "GitHub Codespaces Alternatives"

zja — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 07:05:08 +0000

FWIW there’s a nix feature for devcontainers (https://github.com/devcontainers/features/tree/main/src/nix)

New comment by zja in "Daniel Penny Gets Hired by Andreessen Horowitz"

zja — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:27:37 +0000

Maybe the job is actually really easy?

New comment by zja in "Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]"

zja — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:08:47 +0000

You truncate passwords to prevent DOS