Hacker News: zouhair

New comment by zouhair in "CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers"

zouhair — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:54:30 +0000

This is why I hate patents. If CRISPR were put behind a paywall, none of this would have happened. Everything having to be about profit is getting tiring.

New comment by zouhair in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

zouhair — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:14:22 +0000

Oh, yeah, we are in this calamity because of government interference, not unbridled capitalism. Sure.

New comment by zouhair in "Please Use AI"

zouhair — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:37:07 +0000

You have this feeling only because you have something to compare it to, the new generation don't have that "problem", they will only know AI. The future is bleak.

New comment by zouhair in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

zouhair — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:11:57 +0000

So when you say "My wife" it means you own your wife?

New comment by zouhair in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

zouhair — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:11:20 +0000

So you are not using any AI then. Good for you to stand by your principals. AI stole all its training data.

New comment by zouhair in "Let's talk about LLMs"

zouhair — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:45:05 +0000

Prices of RAM, GPUs, SSDs and even HDDs are now way out of reach for many people [0]. An SSD I bought 2 years ago at $300 CAD now cost $1K CAD for example and it's not gonna go down any time soon.

[0]: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/perfect-s...

New comment by zouhair in "Let's talk about LLMs"

zouhair — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:09:00 +0000

The problem I have with it is the price (I am not talking about the money). I don't know if the price is worth it. For example we are literally witnessing the death of the personal computers, it will soon become a rich people's hobby. I don't know how the whole Free Software/Open source will survive that.

At best we will end up not owning nothing, not even the programming skills as everyone will be at the mercy of AI companies for their coding.

We are still in the honey moon phase of AI coding, I have a very pessimistic view of the future.

New comment by zouhair in "Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage"

zouhair — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:43:05 +0000

What do you think USPS and other shipping carriers do?

New comment by zouhair in "Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage"

zouhair — Sun, 03 May 2026 02:07:15 +0000

None of that is the problem, shit happen, the problem is them asking them to come get their stuff instead of apologizing and sending the luggage at their own expense with a free ride at a future time.

New comment by zouhair in "Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16"

zouhair — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:15:15 +0000

The one I really miss is WindowMaker[0], missed its powerful simplicity

[0]: https://www.windowmaker.org/

New comment by zouhair in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

zouhair — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:14:46 +0000

> retaliatory violence in a civilized society

Are you joking? What civilized society? A society that let people who can't afford insulin die? Let kids starve if they are from poor neighbourhoods? What civilized society are you talking about? The one bombing countries left and right and financing a genocide? What civilization is that? A society where people with full time jobs live paycheck to paycheck with no savings? A society where millions cannot afford shelter and where homelessness is a crime? What civilization is that? When is it OK for you to revolt?

New comment by zouhair in "Why weekends are under threat"

zouhair — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:07:34 +0000

America is not the only country in the World. Here in Montreal, minimum wage went up to around $15 an hour, in the same time a clean one bedroom apartment went from $600-800 to minimum $1500. I live alone and used to spend around $250 in groceries a month now it's around $600 and so on and so forth. And I am not at minimum wage. I can't even fathom how someone making $20 an hour manages to survive.

We have a huge surge of homeless people, mostly because renting one room was about $150-200 now it's around $600 for a crappy one.

People are struggling and the way you wrote that comment, you seem to have no idea as you are personally not yet a victim of the system.

Just think about how much one is struggling to turn around and burn a whole warehouse and how normal people are reacting to it.

New comment by zouhair in "Why weekends are under threat"

zouhair — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:13:28 +0000

Livable wage is under threat. Week ends are the least of it. Millions working full time jobs can't pay their bills anymore.

New comment by zouhair in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

zouhair — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:11:53 +0000

What do you mean by violence? Do you consider someone building a monster of a server farm near your home and messing up with your drinking water, electricity and life in general violence? Why violence is only immediate physical one that counts?

New comment by zouhair in "How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports"

zouhair — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:14:04 +0000

Don't go to America is the best alternative.

New comment by zouhair in "Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance"

zouhair — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:31:58 +0000

And the preparation for the arrival of the fascist governments continues.

New comment by zouhair in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

zouhair — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:50:02 +0000

Some years of AI Technical Debt will be something to behold.

New comment by zouhair in "Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?"

zouhair — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:48:45 +0000

That's just lack of imagination.

New comment by zouhair in "Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?"

zouhair — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:27:09 +0000

I stopped reading Sci-Fi, it's just all dystopia and even when it's about a Utopia it's mostly about how it crumbles like with the Terra Ignota Series.

We live in a dystopia, we need some utopian ideas, enough of the gloom and doom that ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy..

New comment by zouhair in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

zouhair — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:58:58 +0000

I am confused that people act so offended. What do people expect? Meta and all tech companies do not believe in privacy for anyone but themselves. Isn't our info how they make their money?