Hacker News: zthrowaway

New comment by zthrowaway in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

zthrowaway — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:53:39 +0000

Also realize that a lot of these people that are being slaughtered are Christians.

New comment by zthrowaway in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

zthrowaway — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:26:40 +0000

“Farewell to stack overflow” juxtaposed with the realization that AI only knows what to troubleshoot and how because of stack overflow…

New comment by zthrowaway in "Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos"

zthrowaway — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:30:49 +0000

It will never happen. All we can do is simulate consciousness. Only God, Mother Nature, universe, whatever your flavor of the “higher power” is, can create consciousness.

New comment by zthrowaway in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

zthrowaway — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:19:14 +0000

This game is going to suck so much.

New comment by zthrowaway in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

zthrowaway — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:33:27 +0000

Trickle down economics is a political label to criticize Reagan era policies, it’s not an actual thing.

New comment by zthrowaway in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

zthrowaway — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:40:50 +0000

Absolutely. But I’m afraid people are forced to do this because management wants to see AI usage otherwise they’re gonna go on the chopping block. Leadership is ultimately to blame.

New comment by zthrowaway in "A desire for a loud car correlates with higher scores on psychopathy and sadism"

zthrowaway — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:55:08 +0000

I think it’s worth pointing out that there’s a subset of people who have loud exhausts because the engine actually needs it. They’ve supped it up to an insane spec for performance reasons. You can’t have 500+ horsepower try to breathe through a straw. There are sports cars that are loud from the factory because of this.

Now is it smart to do all of that just to drive 35mph in traffic? That’s another discussion :)

New comment by zthrowaway in "A desire for a loud car correlates with higher scores on psychopathy and sadism"

zthrowaway — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:51:25 +0000

A lot of the sports bikes I see around my area are operated by 18 year olds. Who at 18 in this country are being perfectly upstanding members of society? There’s always some stupidity in that phase of life. I wouldn’t put too much thought into it.

New comment by zthrowaway in "A desire for a loud car correlates with higher scores on psychopathy and sadism"

zthrowaway — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:46:42 +0000

I’m a classic car owner, I get the same thing from some people in that scene. I have kept my car exhaust at stock specs and it’s just the right level of loud for what the car is. IMO the cars should be as loud as how powerful they are. You can’t have a 455+ ci engine and expect it to be quiet, and the smaller the exhaust the harder it is for the engine to breathe. It’s a balance that has to be done right.

New comment by zthrowaway in "A desire for a loud car correlates with higher scores on psychopathy and sadism"

zthrowaway — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:22:02 +0000

I don’t like loud exhausts but I’m also not threatened by masculinity.

New comment by zthrowaway in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

zthrowaway — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:23:54 +0000

Our AWS TAM has recently started to respond to us in AI-like responses. It's very obvious. Now it makes sense why.

New comment by zthrowaway in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

zthrowaway — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:51:38 +0000

To be fair though, this is beyond typical restomod territory. This isn’t an LS swap with modern wheels and suspension. This most certainly changes the spirit of the car.

There's no question the first generation of Mustangs are the most collectible.

New comment by zthrowaway in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

zthrowaway — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:04:41 +0000

As a classic car owner/hobbyist, this disgusts me. But thankfully there are at least 200k other restored/restorable 60s Mustangs out there.

New comment by zthrowaway in "HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'"

zthrowaway — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:26:29 +0000

It certainly seems like low effort engagement farming.

New comment by zthrowaway in "Two-thirds of babies watch screens – some for eight hours a day"

zthrowaway — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:48:07 +0000

I have two boys. 2 and 5. We’ve never done screens, instead we do books and focused attention from each parent and we are looked at like crazy people when we tell people that. But our kids are miles ahead of their cohorts in attention span, respectfulness, behavior, socializing, etc. It’s actually alarming. I really worry about them being outcasts just by being raised like we all were.

New comment by zthrowaway in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

zthrowaway — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:09:37 +0000

True but there’s nothing stopping a webdev dropping an API key in some wiki somewhere in the corporate intranet and the agent quickly picking that up.

Can you scan for that? Sure. But it’s a race to see who wins, the scanner or agent.

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

zthrowaway — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:23:10 +0000

Management likes how fast features are getting deployed so they essentially told us to just deal with it.

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

zthrowaway — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:38:59 +0000

Can definitely attest to this. The frequency of outages at my company have increased drastically the past year, especially ever since incorporating agentic development. I’m seeing all of the dev best practices go out the window. We have a few vibe coders that are posting 15-30 PR’s per day. It’s way too much for us to review. We’re not a big shop. I think we’re going to have to hire more people just to review code across the industry. And those people will have to know how to actually write software otherwise what are they even reviewing. Maybe the models will get so good they never make a mistake. Doubt it.

New comment by zthrowaway in "Tech job relocation market is recovering. The competition is growing faster"

zthrowaway — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:31:45 +0000

Don’t blame the public. If only BOTH sides didn’t give us clowns to vote for. I hope the dems prop up some solid candidates next time because the past 8 years has been a total joke.

New comment by zthrowaway in "Tech job relocation market is recovering. The competition is growing faster"

zthrowaway — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:26:38 +0000

There’s no solid evidence of that. In some aspects they can be a net positive sure but it’s modest.