Hacker News: zulban

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.

New comment by zulban in "AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job"

zulban — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:52:20 +0000

It has points because people agree with it.

New comment by zulban in "AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job"

zulban — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:50:55 +0000

I'm far above that floor so I'm not worried.

What worries me is the job is transforming into something that a different type of person than me enjoys.

New comment by zulban in "AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job"

zulban — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:47:58 +0000

People are spending billions of dollars a month in aggregate because yes, they do like it.

New comment by zulban in "AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job"

zulban — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:44:42 +0000

It's hard to take criticism like this seriously when you didn't say the model you used. It's like someone complaining about a car's performance but they leave out the brand and year. If you don't think that's relevant I just can't take you seriously.

New comment by zulban in "The Unity CLI: manage Unity from your terminal"

zulban — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:17:46 +0000

Great. For my game [1] I have long had the capacity to compile a separate commandline application using unity code [2]. This lets me do benchmarks and unit tests on the core chess AI code without the editor. However I've had to maintain a separate second unit test suite that I can only run in the editor manually if any unity specific code is involved. Naturally, it's run far less often.

This new unity cli doesn't replace that design, since it's important to me that my core chess variant AI code remains a project on its own, totally independent of unity. But it does mean lots of my utilities like my second unity test, which normally require clicking a button in the editor, can now be run without the editor. Excellent!

Making a 2d chess variant game means almost all unity editor features just get in my way.

[1] https://www.chesscraft.ca

[2] https://youtu.be/U4xBLTpZ9Xo?si=Gd2aAWKvLqBVBU66

New comment by zulban in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

zulban — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:34:18 +0000

"just show me stuff that reflects what I value."

Ads don't show you what you value. They show you what companies think you will waste your money on. You need to wake up, my friend.

New comment by zulban in "How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks"

zulban — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:27:33 +0000

Indeed. We'd likely find a similar pattern if we count spelling mistakes before and after autocorrect.

New comment by zulban in "Airbus Takes Flight from AWS"

zulban — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:16:47 +0000

What's wrong with DO? Been happily using them for over a decade.

New comment by zulban in "Grok 4.5"

zulban — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:12:59 +0000

It surely would be here and a million other places online. And there'd be nobody talking about the ice cream. Just Trump.

New comment by zulban in "Grok 4.5"

zulban — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:11:35 +0000

I couldn't help but note that your comment and mine could have been written by people who know absolutely nothing about the tech of this post. Interesting.

New comment by zulban in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

zulban — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:53:50 +0000

The criticisms here remind me of a quotation that I'll paraphrase: "in silicon valley there's a million apps to order a coffee, but not one to teach you to read".

People seem to have the basic premise: why not just get an educated adult, or good teacher, or personal human tutor for the kids which is so much better?

Well there's a billion parents who cannot ever afford that...

So I'd just like to note that HN is absolutely 100% not the kind of community that you need to impress or sell to. Best of luck.

New comment by zulban in "Grok 4.5"

zulban — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:19:08 +0000

> Telling people not to be political is a political act

No. If there's a group to discuss ice cream, but they keep talking about Trump, it's not a "political act" to say "hey guys, aren't we here for ice cream?"

Otherwise every forum devolves into the loudest, most vocal slurry and loses its personality.

I'm Canadian. Let's talk about the tech, not your failing country, please. Or I'll go somewhere else for ice cream, and yall can have your millionth community to talk about the same self obsessed political topics ad nauseum.

New comment by zulban in "GPT‑Live"

zulban — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:49:18 +0000

It doesn't have to be good. It just has to be better. What we do now is completely abandon and ignore most seniors. The bar is low.

Don't like it? What's your better solution? Are you going to do it?

New comment by zulban in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

zulban — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:01:37 +0000

You're implying that's the same but it's obviously better. Nothing wrong with renting when you're told you're renting.

New comment by zulban in "Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2"

zulban — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:07:36 +0000

No need to put down men to talk about how awesome this women's pilot team sounds.

New comment by zulban in "Ed Zitron on CNBC: GenAI Doesn't Work, and Big Tech Is Out of Hypergrowth Ideas"

zulban — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:15:05 +0000

I can't quantify how useful GitHub is as a software developer either. That doesn't prove it's useless, just that it's hard to quantify.

New comment by zulban in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

zulban — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:45:23 +0000

Defence in depth isn't hamfisted. They're only noobs if this is all they do.

New comment by zulban in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

zulban — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:41:59 +0000

Absolutely. Nothing makes me believe dead internet theory more than text threads discussing anyhropic and openai.

New comment by zulban in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

zulban — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:19:36 +0000

Even the largest DC doesn't have anywhere near the waste heat of a city.