Hacker News: zulban

New comment by zulban in "Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins"

zulban — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:53:07 +0000

You should apply your brilliant insights to win cash prizes like that then.

New comment by zulban in "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"

zulban — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:11:21 +0000

And then it changes a month later. Then new (bad) defaults. And again and again. Good luck with that.

New comment by zulban in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

zulban — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:04:45 +0000

Why do they need to be sustainable as a business..? The best museums are a service that the public funds (or not). Side note: the museums in America generally suck and are just capitalist activity centers for kids, in my experience. You can't manufacture a good museum's exhibits. I don't think many Americans even know what a museum is, based on their reviews of some I've been to.

Museums are worthwhile to fund instead of throwing them to the wolves of the private sector.

New comment by zulban in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

zulban — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:31:48 +0000

"I'm right until you get me a conversation with Terence Tao".

Sorry, a random stranger on the internet is not going to spoonfeed you. You need to do the work to enlighten yourself.

You don't need a lawyer "well versed in metamath". You're being elitist and dismissing perfectly competent experts who know more than enough to demolish your ideas.

New comment by zulban in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

zulban — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:28:50 +0000

Your low res rushed phone scans are already available.

New comment by zulban in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

zulban — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:24:27 +0000

I don't get upset. I just know that you have no idea what you're talking about. Talk to some tech native, smart, practicing lawyers for an hour about this.

New comment by zulban in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

zulban — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:20:40 +0000

Low res scans are already generally available for lots of these. This case is about high res scans that phones cannot do.

New comment by zulban in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

zulban — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:19:01 +0000

Low resolution scans like yours are already available, generally. This case is about the high res ones.

New comment by zulban in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

zulban — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:17:00 +0000

This case has been going on for years and I read a lot about it awhile ago. The write ups are so extensive I'd be surprised if they didn't, somewhere, write paragraphs about the documents you mentioned.

New comment by zulban in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

zulban — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:14:46 +0000

You've missed the point so I'll try to spell it out.

Bike sheds are important. Their color is not.

Event promotion is important. The color of the poster is not.

New comment by zulban in "AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator"

zulban — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 06:34:50 +0000

My advice: stop your fomo. Just get useful work done.

New comment by zulban in "ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector"

zulban — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:10:34 +0000

Not sure what point you're trying to make. Do you think politely asking an ad company to disable ads on their browser is a reasonable thing to spend your effort doing?

New comment by zulban in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

zulban — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:36:53 +0000

Making a good poster is bikeshedding. Organizing an event is hard and making better posters than this is a waste of their limited resources.

New comment by zulban in "PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD"

zulban — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:52:51 +0000

I have a master's in education technology.

There's no "simply put" here. Your position is not obvious, established, or universal and this is not simple.

New comment by zulban in "PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD"

zulban — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:19:45 +0000

Sloppy conclusion about edtech startups.

If everyone is hiring a "tutor" to just do their homework for them, that doesn't mean that all tutors are bad.

New comment by zulban in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

zulban — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:45:28 +0000

No. But almost always, the car company is fine.

New comment by zulban in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

zulban — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:11:15 +0000

Brilliant. AI message board honey pot.

New comment by zulban in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

zulban — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:08:34 +0000

Indeed. It's another example of a law that sounds good and obvious, but has no thought put into what it would actually end up doing to the world.

So many other problems. If we apply this law to cruise control - simple outcome. We get no cruise control.

New comment by zulban in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

zulban — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:20:49 +0000

There's problems with every system, but as a Canadian, it doesn't sound like you know anything about our health care.

New comment by zulban in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

zulban — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:21:26 +0000

> See translator jobs getting wiped out. Nobody even blinked an eye, it didn't spark any discussion, no deep thoughts were had.

Whenever someone writes something like this "nobody talks about it, nobody cared" I always think that just tells you more about the media sources and community of the author (you) than anything else.

Of course people talked about it. They are still talking about it. Of course they cared. They still care. Don't be ridiculous. Go talk to some human translators in real life.

"Nobody is talking about AI". Sounds even more ridiculous when written like that.