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zulban commented on Ask HN: Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI?    · Posted by u/nazarh
analogpixel · 4 days ago
If you have to ask, then the answer is most likely no.

The most interesting blogs I read are the people that don't really care and are just creating things they find interesting.

zulban · 4 days ago
Indeed. It's like starting a business. You probably shouldn't do it, but some people have to.
zulban commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
zulban · 4 days ago
Making a totally unnecessary and overly elaborate magic item system for my game https://www.chesscraft.ca based on Diablo 2 items. Is it the most reasonable next thing to do to expand the business and monthly revenue? Hah, no.

But unlike my day job, this is my project and I get to do what I want. This is my code therapy.

zulban commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban   reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
techterrier · 7 days ago
HN: social media is as bad as smoking

AUS: we agree, and like smoking, won't be letting our kids do it

NH: but freeze peach!

zulban · 7 days ago
HN is not one person.
zulban commented on GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst   nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/git... · Posted by u/robin_reala
miohtama · 10 days ago
Everyone is free to use alternative CI/CD workflow pipelines. These are often better than Github Actions.

These include

- https://circleci.com/

- https://www.travis-ci.com/

- Gitlab

Open source:

- https://concourse-ci.org/ (discussed in the context of Radicle here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44658820 )

- Jenkins

-etc.

Anyone can complain as much as they want, but unless they put the money where their mouth is, it's just noise from lazy people.

zulban · 10 days ago
It sounds like you've never worked in a large org before.
zulban commented on Advent of Code 2025   adventofcode.com/2025/abo... · Posted by u/vismit2000
letmetweakit · 18 days ago
Man, those people using LLMs in competitive programming ... where's the fun in that? I don't get people for whom it's just about winning, I wish everyone would just have some basic form of dignity and respect.
zulban · 18 days ago
It's a different kind of fun. Just like doing math problems on paper can be fun, or writing code to do the math can be fun, or getting AI to write the code to do the math can be fun.

They're just different types of fun. The problem is if one type of fun is ruined by another.

zulban commented on Students fight back over course taught by AI   theguardian.com/education... · Posted by u/level87
zulban · a month ago
It has been many years that most courses in most universities have inferior lectures than just watching a great series of YouTube videos. Many professors have no passion or training in teaching, they just want to do research. Or they have no time or pay to prepare a course. So of course they use AI slop wherever they can. Even if they record their lectures, that's almost never better than the best free ones out there.

Universities need to lean into the fact that for undergrads, they're only still good at one thing: proctured in person assessments. Also maybe community building.

Bad lectures delivered by rushed or apathetic professors is such a death march. Learning theatre.

zulban commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues   cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
rco8786 · a month ago
Is it me or has there been a very noticeable uptick in large scale infra-level outages lately? AWS, Cloudflare, etc have all been way under whatever SLA they publish.
zulban · a month ago
Unless you're making that determination statistically, it's probably pereidolia. See here: https://behavioralscientist.org/yates-expect-unexpected-why-...
zulban commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues   cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
markild · a month ago
Not at all saying it's a conspiracy, I just think it's a lack of transparency.

I get why, but it would give me more confidence if they would tell me about everything.

zulban · a month ago
They don't make more money by giving you more confidence in their systems.
zulban commented on Show HN: Epstein Files Organized and Searchable   searchepsteinfiles.com/... · Posted by u/searchepstein
elif · a month ago
This is a noble gesture but you should know that this is a deliberate "drip" tactic that is utilized to soften the impact gradually, making the consumption and analysis of this data part of a broader social normalization process which works ironically against the interests of any substantial response that could occur.

Essentially we are helping them brain hack the masses into accepting the status quo.

zulban · a month ago
What do you propose instead?
zulban commented on Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation   minimaxir.com/2025/11/nan... · Posted by u/minimaxir
mFixman · a month ago
The author overlooked an interesting error in the second skull pancake image: the strawberry is on the right eye socket (to the left of the image), and the blackberry is on the left eye socket (to the right of the image)!

This looks like it's caused by 99% of the relative directions in image descriptions describing them from the looker's point of view, and that 99% of the ones that aren't it they refer to a human and not to a skull-shaped pancake.

zulban · a month ago
Extroverts tend to expect directions from the perspective of the skull. Introverts tend to expect their own perspective for directions. It's a psychology thing, not an error.

u/zulban

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