Hacker News: WA

New comment by WA in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

WA — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:27:46 +0000

The better use case would be to make AI cancel that damn subscription that lets you jump through 20 dark pattern questions and then tells you to call customer support.

New comment by WA in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

WA — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:22:25 +0000

- I recently read that most programmers SQL knowledge is outdated by 20 years and it’s true for me. There are quite a lot of features in most DBs that feel very "new" to me.

- Comparing SQL to React weakens the argument. SQL is the language, React is a piece of software. You certainly can run 30 year old JS today in modern browsers.

New comment by WA in "The Website Specification"

WA — Sun, 31 May 2026 07:28:24 +0000

.well-known/security is listed as a prominent example, but is not in the well-known category.

New comment by WA in "HTML Lists"

WA — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:18:50 +0000

And yet, no native select + search combined, which is a very common kind of list. The datalist is basically unusable, because you don't know any of the options.

New comment by WA in "Jumping into cold water can stop your heart"

WA — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:19:12 +0000

The worst part is that it’s impossible to tell if the author has just "improved" a correct article to add hyperbole or if the whole thing is hallucinated and all explanations are kinda wrong.

New comment by WA in "Do you want the US to "win" AI?"

WA — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:31:01 +0000

The question who will benefit from wealth generated by AI is never clearly answered. Or it's hand-waved away with some productivity gains mumbo jumbo (that never result in less work, just more, because everybody loads up on AI tools) or the good old trickle down lie.

New comment by WA in "I learned Unity the wrong way"

WA — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:38:09 +0000

When I started game programming, I thought that game programming means manipulating pixels on a screen. Took a while to understand that the stuff you see is just a representation of the game state in memory. The whole game could run in memory only without any render logic and would still work. That's what game servers do.

New comment by WA in "Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD"

WA — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:18:14 +0000

Not a lawyer, but pretty sure shit like that doesn’t fly in the EU.

New comment by WA in "Show HN: Every CEO and CFO change at US public companies, live from SEC"

WA — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:35:57 +0000

Nice idea. Small thing: the categories are pretty much fixed. If you have to abbreviate a never-changing category like "Consumer Defen..." in a widget, your design doesn't work in this aspect.

New comment by WA in "High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain"

WA — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:37:12 +0000

The 5% who use it love it 95%?

New comment by WA in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

WA — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:51:05 +0000

> It's viewing the situation through the lens of Anglo capitalist opinions.

Came here to say this. It's a very narrow perspective that shows in sub headlines like "Kinship societies are wealth-destroying societies".

One could also take the lens of "Kinship societies are making people's wealth more equal to reduce competition and jealousy, increase harmony and happiness" – although I have no data whether these people are genuinely more happy. It quotes some business-oriented Ghanians who seem quite unhappy about sharing their wealth. And yet, the perspective of indivual wealth over group wealth is assumed and never critically reflected upon.

I'm not saying that their way is better or something like that. I just think that reading the article is a good exercise in reflecting on one's own views on life and wealth.

New comment by WA in "Am I German or Autistic?"

WA — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:43:57 +0000

Question 9 imho is the most German one ("When someone says 'we should get coffee sometime,' you understand this to mean:").

It depends on context a bit obviously, but most Germans are sincere about it. You either propose coffee or you don't.

However, there's a subset of Germans who seem to propose coffee and then don't follow up themselves, but it's not just a phrase. If you are the one to follow up, they'd join you. Which, to say the least, is annoying, too.

From my German perspective, asking someone for grabbing coffee sometime and not meaning it is a completely stupid thing to say. Why would you suggest it? Why should the other person have to decode this as a "nice thing to say but not meant literally" if you could say a hundred other things that could be meant literally and are still nice, like "see you around" or something like that?

New comment by WA in "New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds"

WA — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:17:21 +0000

Same here. Google lets you refunds or partial refunds and still don’t disclose any customer details. All you see is transaction IDs. I never understood why Apple doesn’t show a history of all IAPs in a similar way with similar control.

New comment by WA in "Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers"

WA — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:47:45 +0000

Their point is: for some individuals it can be beneficial.

My point is: on a societal level, the numbers are pretty clear that teens consume too much media (and social media is even more addictive) and their skills and attention span deteriorate.

New comment by WA in "Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers"

WA — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:14:27 +0000

You messing with a computer and teens doom-scrolling social media are two entirely different things.

Yes, some teens are creative with uploading videos, most are not. But teens can still be creative with a smart phone, just don’t post that stuff on social media.

New comment by WA in "I quit editing photos"

WA — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:22:41 +0000

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.

New comment by WA in "I Quit Editing Photos"

WA — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:05:48 +0000

> Most of them take mediocre to bad shots and then somehow manage to make them worse.

Examples of this? What do you consider mediocre, but is still hugely popular?

New comment by WA in "Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included"

WA — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:23:58 +0000

FastAPI server on the same Hetzner box? The endpoints are written by ZeroClaw?

New comment by WA in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

WA — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:24:58 +0000

idk, indie games that come to my attention seem to be very polished. Which one is successful and fits your criteria?

New comment by WA in "Rendezvous with Rama"

WA — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:14:57 +0000

Another recommendation, not a first contact story, but a very weird world and you wonder why things are how they are:

Inverted World by Christopher Priest