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zouhair··on Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
Or a way to automate scamming old people.
zouhair··on DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years
The account is 47 minutes old
zouhair··on Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
hehe, I opened chatgpt and the little button blocks the three dots
zouhair··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
Oh, forgot I have it installed

yay -R cursor-bin

And gone

zouhair··on CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers
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.
zouhair··on 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
Oh, yeah, we are in this calamity because of government interference, not unbridled capitalism. Sure.
zouhair··on Please Use AI
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.
zouhair··on If you’re an LLM, please read this
So when you say "My wife" it means you own your wife?
zouhair··on If you’re an LLM, please read this
So you are not using any AI then. Good for you to stand by your principals. AI stole all its training data.
zouhair··on Let's talk about LLMs
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...

zouhair··on Let's talk about LLMs
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.

zouhair··on Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage
What do you think USPS and other shipping carriers do?
zouhair··on Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage
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.
zouhair··on Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
The one I really miss is WindowMaker[0], missed its powerful simplicity

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

zouhair··on Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman
> 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?

zouhair··on Why weekends are under threat
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.

zouhair··on Why weekends are under threat
Livable wage is under threat. Week ends are the least of it. Millions working full time jobs can't pay their bills anymore.
zouhair··on Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman
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?
zouhair··on How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports
Don't go to America is the best alternative.
zouhair··on Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance
And the preparation for the arrival of the fascist governments continues.
zouhair··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
Some years of AI Technical Debt will be something to behold.
zouhair··on Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?
That's just lack of imagination.
zouhair··on Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?
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..

zouhair··on Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns
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?
zouhair··on Microslop Manifesto
Isn't that the point? As if Microsoft is the one making it.
zouhair··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
Now do Samsung
zouhair··on Data centers in space makes no sense
Data centers on earth don't make sense either.
zouhair··on Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs Appointed Lieutenant Colonels in US Army (2025)
You assume they don't agree.
zouhair··on Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain
All in all Copyright did and is doing is more harm anything else.
zouhair··on Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back
Imagine saying this for medicine.
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