Hacker News: WickyNilliams

New comment by WickyNilliams in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

WickyNilliams — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:04:55 +0000

It's an extremely well known nazi symbol. Probably second behind the swastika itself. There's even that famous "are we the baddies" meme, which uses that symbol as a central pillar of the gag.

New comment by WickyNilliams in "Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements"

WickyNilliams — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:41:08 +0000

Until case law establishes that people are in fact legally responsible for output, then it is just empty platitudes, I fear

New comment by WickyNilliams in "Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements"

WickyNilliams — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:37:30 +0000

Even if you have some AI transcribe in real time, they introduce the kind of subtle mistake - like negating a statement - that is plausible, but undetectable in retrospect without the accompanying audio.

I often review the transcriptions that zoom produces out of curiosity, and this happens constantly. Makes them essentially useless as a statement of record

New comment by WickyNilliams in "macOS needs its grid back"

WickyNilliams — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:39:36 +0000

I've been experimenting with aerospace for the last month. Still not sure if I enjoy the tiling aspect. It can get quite janky on occasions when multiple windows open at once. And it lacks some UI affordances (I'd love if you could make the focused app much more prominent). I might try this more limited approach

I wish macos for more serious about window management, it's extremely limited out of the box.

New comment by WickyNilliams in "Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants"

WickyNilliams — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:41:32 +0000

Could be both? Pay off the previous cohort and it signals to the next that they will get remunerated for their "assistance"

New comment by WickyNilliams in "The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients"

WickyNilliams — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:56:09 +0000

Curious why you categorize lightly cooked as good but high heat as bad? Do you mean deep fried specifically? Or any high heat?

New comment by WickyNilliams in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"

WickyNilliams — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:13:05 +0000

Thank you! I'll take a look

New comment by WickyNilliams in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"

WickyNilliams — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:02:06 +0000

Thanks. I think that's some unaffiliated website btw. While they seem to have provided sources for most of the stats, MAU is not one of them.

New comment by WickyNilliams in "Technofascism"

WickyNilliams — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:43:05 +0000

Netflix are not putting out manfiestos that read like a monologue from a movie villain, at least

New comment by WickyNilliams in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"

WickyNilliams — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:34:39 +0000

Where is that figure from? I would be extremely surprised if that doesn't drop at least an order of magnitude as the hype wears off. Assuming it's even representative of today and not two months ago

New comment by WickyNilliams in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"

WickyNilliams — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:29:51 +0000

Could you link to the video?

New comment by WickyNilliams in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"

WickyNilliams — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:20:57 +0000

He said in another thread there's 6 people involved. 6 people for this project doesn't feel lean, without even considering the enormous LLM spend/complexity

New comment by WickyNilliams in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

WickyNilliams — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:50:06 +0000

Not OP, but I've been focusing on linting and automation.

Custom lint rules to encode best practices that previously relied on astute/alert code reviewer to call attention to. This is handy not just for humans but it steers the bots too. Or turning on some existing rule that required a big cleanup/migration to be compliant with. Now I just throw an LLM at it, since they're often laborious but mechanical changes. Which is the sweet spot for an LLM.

Also automating everything I can. That annoying release process that everyone hates but wasn't quite long/arduous enough to justify the time before? It's now automated. GitHub workflows for all the things.

This kind of stuff will forever be useful, even if the bottom drops out and the bubble bursts. And none of it is reliant on AI to run

New comment by WickyNilliams in "Do I belong in tech anymore?"

WickyNilliams — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:39:09 +0000

What is your experience in? The company I work for is constantly hiring

New comment by WickyNilliams in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"

WickyNilliams — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:32:03 +0000

> His blog posts are bloviated monstrosities incapable of coherently describing the very trivial ideas contained in them.

That's not true. He coherently and clearly described this crypto pump and dump nonsense he was pushing for a while https://steve-yegge.medium.com/bags-and-the-creator-economy-...

New comment by WickyNilliams in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"

WickyNilliams — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:26:22 +0000

Don't forget: also using his name and the project to pump some speculative crypto nonsense of which he was a beneficiary.

How anybody takes him (or the Ralph Wiggum guy who did the same) seriously after this is beyond me. These people should be exiled

New comment by WickyNilliams in "The End of Eleventy"

WickyNilliams — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:36:05 +0000

Astro is very nice, but I kinda feel like they are adding a lot of features I don't want and will never need. It's starting to feel too fancy for SSG. My first time using it I encountered 3 separate bugs with their compiler. The fanciness has a price.

New comment by WickyNilliams in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

WickyNilliams — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:03:59 +0000

Don't suppose you've played in the steamdeck? Curious how well it works there

New comment by WickyNilliams in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

WickyNilliams — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:59:31 +0000

Oh lol. Good catch. Wrote that with my morning coffee in hand where it appears my brain was still asleep

New comment by WickyNilliams in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

WickyNilliams — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:20:23 +0000

B-b-but the bananas, and the bureaucrats!!

What's particularly amazing about Brexit is that many of its chief architects have not been shamed or exiled from society for spinning a yarn that fell apart when confronted with the smallest slither of reality. No, instead, the primary advocate may very well be our next prime minister.